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Dan Nelson, vice president of Exxon Mobil's Washington, D.C. office, greets Alan Greenspan at the dinner held in 2004 by the Society to honor the history of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, was the featured speaker. a love for the history of Congress and the Capitol to his tenure as Society president. His management stabilized the Society's financial situation and enabled the organization to weather the loss of its sales outlet in the Capitol when the creation of the Capitol Visitor Center resulted in congressional operation of the CVC gift shops. WINTER 2013 Under the guidance of Clarence Brown and Ron Sarasin the Society continued and expanded its educational mission. New outreach programs included the Where Freedom Speaks elementary school program, which teaches students about the history and heritage of the Capitol and Congress, and its distribution to schools across the nation; a series of Outstanding Members of Congress books aimed at high school age students and related youth forums about such topics as women, athletes, African Americans, and environmentalists in Congress; the We the People Constitution Program providing an educational tour to help 8th grade students understand the Constitution; annual symposia series on congressional history and the history of the art and architecture of the Capitol and the publication of those symposia proceedings by the Ohio University Press; traveling exhibits on topics from the history of the Capitol to the role of German Americans in Congress; and new The Great Hall of the Library of Congress was the impressive site for the dinner honoring the Senate Appropriations Committee in 2005. THE CAPITOL DOME 41