LETTER TO ALLEN W. DULLES FROM EVERETT CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A000500610019-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 11, 1958
• Content Type: LETTER

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COLGATE UNIVERSITY
HAMILTON, NEW YORK
THEPRESIDENT'SROOM
Personal
Dear Allen:
11 June 1958
A week or two ago I had luncheon with one of the trustees
of the Avalon Foundation to discuss a possible contribution toward
the endowment of the Hughes Chair) either by the Foundation or by
Mrs. Bruce personally. .,'"I'was advised that the Foundation itself
is in the process of reorganization but that Mrs. Bruce might well
be interested because of her father's relationship with Judge Hughes--
especially if her brother Paul would either take the lead or follow
suit. The contributions we discussed were of the order of $25,000
each.'
Although, as you will recall, I once made such a sugges-
tion in a letter to Paul Mellon, which Ernest Brooks of the Old
Dominion Foundation declined in his behalf, I could not help being
reminded of the generous offer you subsequently made in Joe Grew's
home to speak to Mr. Mellon yourself about a personal contribution.
If you have already done so, please ignore this note. If not,
it would be immensely helpful if you could contrive to do so either
personally or through the good offices of your law partner, Mr.
Stoddard Stevens.
Our efforts to complete this endowment have suffered
over the past year from the priorities we have had to accord to
the completion of Colgate's $4,000,000 Development Fund. Thus the
contributions to date total only $100,000, including $25,000 gifts
from Mr. A. V. Davis and Mr. Rockefeller, Jr.--the latter of these
recorded anonymously at the donor's request. Could we now secure
similar contributions from Paul Mellon and his sister, the Univer-
sity would be prepared to establish the Chair at once, making up
the income deficiency through annual giving pending later comple-
tion of the endowment. My excuse for bothering you is that I
know neither Paul nor his sister, and this is the kind of thing to
which the approach through the foundations as such is, perhaps,
too impersonal to be effective. It is true, of course, that the
conversation which led to this letter occurred prior to the $15,000,000
gift to Yale which Whit Griswold announced earlier this week. Since
that was made through Old Dominion, I am sanguine enough to hope that
it would not preclude consideration of this more personal and modest
contribution to the Hughes Chair.
Sorry you couldn't come up to speak next month at Colgate's
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THE PRESIDENT'S ROOM
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
HAMILTON, NEW YORK
-2- 11 June 1958
Foreign Policy Conference, but I have some awareness of the pres-
sures to which you are subject. I had selfish reasons for wanting
to see you because my wife and I have a leave of absence next -
semester and a Carnegie grant. for travel and study abroad. Since
our original plans failed to win your brother's approval, we shall
probably spend most of our time in Southeast Asia with a special
eye to educational developments in that area.
Ever faithfully yours,
Everett Case
The Honorable Allen W. Dulles
2430 E Street
Washington 25, D.C.
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