Reports, Minutes, 1959-1973

This series documents DDS's involvement with the Weizmann Institute. The Institute developed from the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, which was founded in 1934. In 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science was founded, with the goal of expanding the Sieff Institute into a leading research center.¹ In 1946, the cornerstone was laid for the Institute's first building, and in 1949, the Institute was formally dedicated as the Weizmann Institute of Science. DDS was the first Chair of the Board of Governors of the Institute and of the Board of Directors of the American Committee: he served in these positions until 1971. Background material on the Institute can be found in the Informational Booklets folder and in the Special Events folders, which include a program for Founders' Dinner held by the American Committee in 1945, as well as programs for later Weizmann Annual Dinners. Also included are the 1967 By-Laws of the Institute's American Committee. Memorial material for Chaim Weizmann can also be found here, while additional correspondence with Weizmann can be found in Series I.

¹ "50 Years of Scientific Research Excellence at the Weizmann Institute of Science: A Photographic Retrospective," 1984, P-529, Dewey D. Stone Collection, American Jewish Historical Society.