LETTER TO MISS PRISCILLA MASON FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Publication Date: April 30, 1960
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FOREIGN SERVICE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
1906 FLORIDA AVENUE, N_ W.
WASHINGTON 9, D. C.
April 26, 1960
Mr. Allen W. Dulles
Post Office Box 1513
Main Post Office
Washington, D.C.
i96 3
All of us were extremely sorry that it was
not possible for you to attend the recent meeting of
the Trustees of the Foreign Service Educational Founda-
tion and of the members of the Advisory Council of the
School. I am sure, however, that you will find the en-
closed Minutes covering the various reports on recent
developments at the School, as well as a most enlighten-
ing report by Dr. Eisenhower's Assistant on the progress
of our ten-year development program, of unusual interest.
If you would like further information concern-
ing any particular phase of our activities, please let me
know.
Sincerely yours,
(~~ 49 4'4'op '~L j
Priscilla Mason
Secretary
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FOREIGN SERVICE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Meeting of Board of Trustees
April 14, 1960
The meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. at 1830 19th Street,
N.1J., in accordance with a notice by the Secretary.
Present: Paul H. Nitze, Chairman; William McC. Martin, Jr., Elsa
W. Mason, Samuel W. Meek, Morehead Patterson, Helen P. Philbin, Wayne C.
Taylor, Philip W. Thayer, Philip H. Watts, and Priscilla Mason, Secretary.
Present by invitation were: Robert E. Hall, Assistant to the Dean; Keith
Spalding, Assistant to the President of the University; and Arnold Wolfers.
Director of the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research.
At the request of the Chairman, Dean Thayer reported on recent de-
velopments at the School. He noted that this year's enrollment of 96 is
the largest in the history of the School. The group includes 10 foreign
students, 6 trainees from the Foreign Service, and one from the J. Walter
Thompson Company. One student is attending under a Woodrow Wilson Fellow-
ship, 1 under a Ford Foundation grant, and 4 are holders of National De-
fense Foreign Language Fellowships. On the Faculty side, Professor William
C. Johnstone has returned from two years in Rangoon and has resumed the
teaching of the courses on South and Southeast Asia; Professor E.A.J.
Johnson, who has been Visiting Professor of Economics at the Bologna
Center for the past three years, is offering courses on the American and
Western European economies; and one of the School's own graduates,
Helmut Sonnenfeldt, now Chief of the Soviet Foreign Branch of the Office
of Research and Analysis for the Sino-Soviet Bloc in the Department of
State, is giving one of the Soviet courses. Also teaching in the School
are two of the Research Associates at the Washington Center of Foreign
Policy Research, Roger Hilsman and Ralph McCabe.
The Institute on ICA Development Programming is concluding its
fourth successful session, and there appears to be every reason to believe
that the training contract will be renewed beyond the present May, 1961,
termaination date.
With regard to the School's overseas activities, Dean Thayer noted
that the Bologna Center also has the largest enrollment in its history
with 56 students attending. Good progress is being made on the new
Center building, and there is every expectation that it will be completed
by April 1961. In view of Dr. Eisenhower's recent illness which necessi-
tated the cancellation of the cornerstone-laying ceremonies at the end of
March, it has now been decided to hold dedication ceremonies in March or
April 1961 with Dr. Eisenhower and Dean Thayer going over at that time.
Unsettled conditions in Burma and Indonesia have made it necessary to
curtail our activities in those areas. The School has, however, been
approached by the Department of State with a proposal to set up pilot
workshop projects in Burma, India and Indonesia under the terms of PL 480.
Dean Thayer reported further that the Program for Corporation Execu-
tives had had a most successful year, with a total of 702 attending, of
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whom 347 were representatives of business corporations, 175 were from gov-
ernment, and 181 were individuals or representatives of foundations and
private research organizations. Income from fees charged representatives
of non-associated corporations was the largest in the history of the con-
ferences, and totalled "10,475. Another development of particular interest
has been the selection of the School by the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare as one of 7 University Centers for Middle East Studies to be
granted financial aid during the coming year under the provisions of the
National Defense Education Act.
Mr. Nitze said that he would like to report also that the Rockefeller
Foundation had approved a grant for one year for a program for training
foreign service officers of underdeveloped countries. This program will
be carried out in three parts at 1'Ecole d'Etudes Politiques at the Univer-
sity of Geneva, at Columbia University, and at SAIS. SAIS will be responsi
ble for a pilot project consisting of special seminars for Embassy officers
stationed in WW,ashington.
Mr. Nitze next presented the financial statements for SAILS and the
Foundation, copies of which are attached to these Minutes. He.called par-
ticular attention to the note on the SAIS Revised Budget Estimates which
showed that as of February 29th $13,620 in new monies would need to be
raised prior to June 30 if a deficit was to be avoided. As of this date,
additional income from Corporate Program fees and some possible savings on
the expenditure side made it appear likely that the deficit would be in the
neighborhood of $,10,000.
Mr. Nitze next asked Mr. Hall to report on fund-raising activities.
Mr. Hall said that of the 58 companies and company foundations solicited
since June 1959, 21 have contributed, 11 have refused financial help, and
26 have not yet made a decision. of the 21 which have contributed, 17
gave last year, and 4 are new donors. Fifteen small private foundations
also have been solicited, but with negative results to-date. During the
same period he had visited personally 56 companies and foundations on 9
fund-raising trips to New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Pittsburgh.
Mr. Hall said that one of the most encouraging aspects of the School's
fund-raising activities had been the enthusiasm of the alumni and the.sub-
stantial increase in their giving. In response to this year's roll call,
281 donors had given a little more than $3,000 as compared to 141 donors
giving $1,852 last year. Within the last few weeks an alumnus had sent a
check for $500 with the request that it be used to establish a SAIS Alumni
Student Loand Fund and that other alumni be invited to participate in the
project. Other alumni are being solicited on a selected basis, and during
the past week 3 alumni have contributed an additional $135 to the Fund.
Mr. Meek asked if any thought had been given to holding a luncheon in
New York for corporation executives whose companies might be potential
donors to the School, and indicated his willingness to help in such an
undertaking.
Mr. Nitz.e next asked Mr. Spalding to report on the ten-year develop-
ment program. Mr. Spalding said that nearly a year and a half of intensive
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work in planning and designing an improved prograr: for the School of Advan-
ced International Studies and for the Washingtoa Center of Foreign Policy
Research as an integral part of that program had resulted in pledges amount-
ing to $3,750,000 toward the -oal of "4,247,OCO.
Of the amount received, .4`3,000,000 is a grant from the Ford Foundation,
of which $800,000 may be used for building and the remaining $2,200,000 for
program purposes including salary increases, additional faculty and visiting
professors, expansion of research, an increased fellowship program, improved
library facilities, and supporting items. The Ford grant already has been
transmitted to the University for investment with the understanding that
the interest accrued be reserved for the continuation of the program after
the initial 10-year grant period. Permissions also has been given to use
a portion of the program funds for the construction of the new building,
should this prove necessary, one the condition that any portion so used be
repaid as though borrowed. In addition to the Ford grant, $500,000 has
been premised by the Rockefeller Foundation, the money to be made available
when matching funds from other sources have been obtained. Two further
conditions of this grant, as of the Ford grant, are the finding of a suit-
able site and the raising of substantially the total goal of $4,257.000
prior to the expenditure of any of the funds.
A third grant which has been received is one from The Carnegie Corpora-
tion in the amount of $250,000, payable at the rate of $50,000 a year over
the next five years, and possibly renewable. This grant is to be used en-
tirely in support of research.
This leaves $497,000 still to be raised to meet the goal, and it is
believed that an application already submitted to one foundation for
~~287,000 in support of the Latin American portion of the program has an
excellent chance of success. Mr. Nitze also is negotiating with a fifth
foundation for substantial support, and these negotiations also are pro-
gressing well.
Mr. Spalding emphasized that it had been explicit in all the applica-
tions that a vigorous development and fund-raising effort would be maintaine
and that the School's program would not become solely dependent on these
large grants. Both the University and the School administrations are con-
stantly on the alert for new sources of support, and there already is rea-
son to believe that the confidence that has been expressed in this connec-
tion is well founded. The planning is long range both with respect to fin-
ancing and to programming, and already being considered as serious possi-
bilities for development are an undergraduate program in international
affairs at Homewood in preparation for graduate work at SAIS, the establish-
ment of the training program for young foreign diplomats already referred
to, as well as mid-career training programs for U.S. Government officials.
As a result of these joint efforts, the School and the University are
growing closer together, to the enhancement of both.
At Mr. Nitze's request, Mr. Watts next reported on the status of nego-
tiations being carried on for a building site. He believed that the chances
of our being ultimately successful in obtaining the site we have in mind
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were good, but that considerably more time would be required.
Reporting for the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research, Dr.
Wolfers said that the past year had been one of both opportunity and achieve
ment. The Center had been chosen as one of 14 institutions to make foreign
policy studies for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and as a result
had produced a study on "Technological Development, Military Strategy, and
Foreign Policy." Also published had been a volume on "Alliance Policy in
the Cold War," by the Johns Hopkins Press. At the present time members of
the Center staff are contributing to a study program being conducted by
Carnegie in the fields of national security, international politics and
problems of the new states. It is anticipated that members of the School
faculty will work closely with the Center on the problems of the new states.
During the current year Research Associates at the Center in addition
to Mr. Nitze and himself have included: Robert C. Good, Roger Hillman,
James E. King, Charles Burton Marshall, Ralph McCabe, Hans J. Morgenthau,
and Richard Sterling. Gerald Freund and Robert W. Tucker have been parti-
cipating in the work of the Center as Research Consultants, and William A.
M. Burden, Jr., and Ellen Guild as Research Assistants.
For the coming year, Dr. Wolfers asked an received approval for his
recommendations to the President of the University for the appointment as
Research Associates of Professor George Liska of the University of Chicago
to replace Professor Morgenthau and of Reinhold Neihbur for two months.
Dr. Wolfers said that it was anticipated that all of the other Research
Associates would remain with the Center for varying portions of the coming
year.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 7:15 P?m.
Priscilla Mason
Secretary
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Revised Budget Estimates as of February 29, 1960
1959-60
Proposed
Budget
Actual to
2/29/60
Estimated
4 months
Savings
or (Loss)
INCOME:
Tuition and Fees
Room Rentals
Corporate Program Fees
Overhead:
I.C.A.
Bologna Center
Research Center
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Senate Fgn.Rels. Com,
Strategy Research Grant
Falk Fdn. Grant
Southeast Asia Program
Contributions
Bolton Fellowship
Meyer Fdn. Fellowship
84,400
6,500
12,800
51,896
14,500
3,500
2,000
-
1,500
1,800
1,500
:$103,012.50
6,823.00
5,825.00
31,931.75
14,500.00
3,803.00
2,000.00
1,496.47
2,675.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,800.00
1,500.00
(300.00)
-
2,000.00
19,964.25
-
-
-
-
-
$ 18,312.50
323.00
(4,975.00)
303.00
-
1,496.47
2,675.00
1,000.00
(500.00)
Crown Zellerbach Fellowship - 3,000.00
3,000.00
Concora Fdn. Fellowship
For African Studies
Unrestricted - direct
-
18,000
3,000.00
18,000.00
3,000.00
or thru' FSEF Fdn.
177,764
99,160.60
45,360.49*
(33,242.91)
2,815.27
184,73
3,000.00
399.67
1,175.33
1,575.00
$376,160
$303,742.26
$ 68,384.8o
$ (4,032.94)
EXPENSES:
Share of Univesity Expense
(Original Estimate)
$ 17,697
$ 11,800.00
5,897.00
Administration
81,857
52,387.87
29,518.13
(49.00)
Fellowships
28,800
23,762.50
1,237.50
3,800.00
Instruction
142,626
91,280.06
54,779.94
(3,434.00)
Library
28,200
17,206.43
10,098.86
894.71
Plant
29,880
19,590.85
8,289.15
2,000.00
Dormitory
5,900
3,650.74
2,249.26
Development Program
17,700
9,261.79
7,816.98
621.23
Corporate Program
23,500
16,281,51
7,018.49
200,00
$376,160
$245,221.75
$126,905.31
$ 4,032.94
'1, Of the $+5,360 estimated or required to be raised at February 29, 1960,
39,000 is available for transfer from the FSEF. In addition, $18,740
has been contributed to the School during the period March 1st to April 14th
:Leaving $17,620 to be raised prior to June 30th to avoid a deficit. Of
this amount only $4,000 is reasonably assured.
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Received
Received
Received to
March 31,19W'
1957-58
1958-59
on 1959-60
American Chicle Company
$ 500*
$ 200*
American and Foreign Power Co.
1,000*
1,000*
$ 500.
American Metal Climax Fdn., Inc.
(for African Studies)
1,000
Arabian American Oil Co.
10,000
10,000
Blaw Knox Co.
50
50
Mrs. Frances P. Bolton
12,000
2,049.35
13,587.28
14,000
For Bolton Fellowship
1,800
1,800
1,8oo
William A. M. Burden
2,500 **
Edward B. Burling
2,000*
2,203.02*
4,134.26**
California Texas Oil Corp.
3,000*
3,000*
2,000*
2,000
Chase Manhattan Bank
1,000
1,000
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.
Container Corp. of America
500
(Concora Foundation)
2,500*
2,500*
3,000
Continental Ore Co.
500*
500*
(Ridgefield Foundation)
1,000*
3,000*
3,000
Crown Zellerbach Foundation
1,000
3,000
E.I. Dupont de Nemours
1,000
C. Douglas Dillon
11,808.21
12,658.32
12,428.58
Chas. Engelhard Fdn.
(for African Studies)
To be carried forward .$55,907?.56 $52,498`.62 $45,912.84
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Contributions received since March 31, 1960:
American Chicle Co.
$ 200.00*
ARAPTCO
10, 000.00
William A.M. Burden
1,500.00
Gulf Oil Company
1,000.00
Morehead Patterson
3,004.00
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FOREIGN SERVICE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Balance Sheet as of March 31, 1960
General
Funds
Endowment
Funds
Cash $ 6,971.49
Securities
$ 3,089.89
164,119.84
$ 1.0,061.38
164,119.84
$ 6,971,49
$167,209.73
$174,181.22
Mason Fund Principal
$150,000
$150,000
Herter Fund Principal
14,165.81
14,165.81
Herter Fund Income
Unrestricted Surplus:
2,043.92
2,043.92
Surplus at June 30, 1959
Receipts over Disbursements,
July 1, 1959 to March 31,
1,618.34
1,618.34
1960
5,353?l5
1,000
6,353.15
$ 6,971.49
$!67,209-73
$174,181.22
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General Fund
Endowment
Funds
Balance, June 30, 1959
$ 1,618.34
$165.518.31
Additions, July 1, 1959 March 31,
Unrestricted contributions
$ 13,750
Proceeds of sale of Stock Rights,
added to Herter Fund Principal
Dividend Income
Herter Fund
689.71
Mason Fund
1,000.
3.15
-
13,753.15
-
1,691.42
-
15,371.4
9
$1679209.75
Deductions, July 1, 1959 to
March 31, 1960:
Audit and Legal $ 150.
Transfer to Johns Hopkins University 8225
Balance, March 31, 1960 $ 6,971.49 $167,209.73
*
Transferable at March 31,
1960
Herter Income (for fellowship)
$1,000
Mason Income (unrestricted)
1,000
Unrestricted Funds
7,000
Available for transfer
$9,000
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