Word: kukin
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Aside from the MacArthur grant, the Society received start-up funding of $10 million from Dr. Ira Kukin last November...
...initiated the creation of a society of international fellows, which would host established experts as well as young professors for study in international relations. New Jersey industrialist Dr. Ira Kukin, who in 1951 got a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard, gave $5 million in October toward the new program, which officials said will need some additional funds to get off the ground...
...campaign was also blessed in the closing months with two huge gifts--the $5 million Kukin gift for the society of international fellows, and a $2 million gift from retired Michigan lumberman John W. Blodgett '23, who had already lent his name--and millions of dollars--to the Blodgett Pool...
...Jersey industrialist Ira Kukin, who received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard in 1951 and this October gave $5 million to help set up a society of international fellows for scholars in international relations: "First, I owed it to Harvard. I got my education there, and it made a big difference to me. Second, I felt I was being given the opportunity to do something for mankind [through establishing the society of fellows] . . . . And finally, when all is said and done, there's a very simple reason for my gift. I feel very proud of Harvard, and I can assure...