Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Porter left the University a direct bequest of slightly over $1 million. She asked for several specific expenditures, concerned in large part with libraries and museums; and she said that all remaining funds should be used to endow the new humanities-social sciences chair. A spokesman for the University's financial offices said yesterday that between $500,000 and $600,000 would be available for this purpose...
Settling Mrs. Porter's estate will probably take at least a year, with most of the time being needed to compute the taxes on the various bequests she made. Besides leaving money to the University and to her sister, she also willed funds to several other relatives...
...Porter was the wife of Harvard archeologist A. Kingsley Porter, and she asked that the humanities-social sciences professorship he named after him. If the chair is made a University professorship, it will be the twelfth of this kind. Among the current holders of University professorships are Paul H. Buck, I. A. Richards, Paul A. Freund, and Edward M. Purcell, Paul J. Tillich held a University professorship until his retirement last June...
...University receives about $15 million a year from trusts and bequests like Mrs. Porter...
...Porter also left her home, once the residence of poet James Russell Lowell, and $35,000 for the maintenance of photographic and literary material given to the University by her husband...