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Santa Fe, N.M., sculptor Glenna Goodacre (View, April 29) is right on schedule with the seven-foot bronze she is producing for the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington. She’s about a third of the way through the process of molding clay onto a steel framework.

Goodacre’s figurative design includes an Army nurse sitting on sandbags, cradling a wounded GI in her lap. A second woman stands nearby, scanning the sky for a medevac helicopter; a third woman kneels, a helmet in her hand.

Goodacre expects the sculpture to be finished and cast in bronze by June. Then it will be taken by truck to Washington for the Nov. 11, 1993, dedication. The truck will stop in numerous towns along the way to allow people to view the work.

Goodacre says she’s constantly making small adjustments to the piece. “The hardest thing,” she says, “is knowing when to quit.”