 First as Director, and later appointed President, McKenzie read and organized file drawers of newspaper articles, exhibition announcements, reviews, invitations, one-person and group exhibitions, and compiled all educational background and awards.Any articles Lefranc had written, McKenzie found an audience.McKenzie nominated, unknown to Lefranc, and later Lefranc received the 1996 "Governor's Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts, Painting", presented by Governor Gary Johnson and New Mexico's First Lady, Dee Johnson.