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...large part of the $500,000 Whittemore raised for the Institute was contributed by College alumni interested in Byzantine research. One of these, Robert Woods Bliss '00, also gave the University the $5,000,000 Dumbarton Oaks estates in 1940. Fogg Museum contributed gifts...
...present, John Nicholas Brown '22, member of the Visiting Committee to Dumbarton Oaks, is president of the Institute. He succeeded Robert P. Blake, late professor of Byzantine History. William Emerson '95, Dean Emeritus of M.I.T.'s School of Architecture, is vice-president, and Charles Francis Adams '88, former Secretary of the Navy, is treasurer. Soth T. Gano '07 holds the post of secretary...
When Whittemore died last June, Sterling Dow '25, Hudson Professor of Archaeology, became domestic director of the Institute. Dumbarton Oaks contributed Paul A. Underwood, associate professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, as field director. He is now in Istanbul supervising the last stages of the uncovering of the mosaics...
...other main center of Byzantine study is the University's Dumbarton Oaks group in Washington, D. C.--probably known by the public for the conferences held there by diplomats in 1944 to start planning for the United Nations...
Bliss gave Dumbarton Oaks to the University in 1940 as a place dedicated solely to Byzantine and Medieval humanities. He acquired the estate in 1930 and began to collect the nucleus of what is today the Collection and the Research Library...