A grant of $85,000 from the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation to cover the cost of a memorial to the late Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, was announced here today. The memorial, which will be a 21-foot high bronze sculpture mounted on a granite plinth, will be installed in front of the Secretariat Building.
Jacob Blaustein, a former member of the United States delegation to the United Nations, and honorary president of the American Jewish Committee, was a close friend of the late Secretary General. The grant for the memorial was consummated in an exchange of letters between Mr. Blaustein and Secretary General U Thant.
The late Mr. Hammarskjold had often expressed to his friends the wish that an appropriate piece of sculpture might some day adorn the circle in front of the Secretariat building and that it might be executed by Miss Barbara Hepworth, of England, whose work he admired. Miss Hepworth has already completed a cast of the sculpture, which has been titled “Single Form,” and the work is now at a bronze foundry. It is expected to be unveiled in the spring of 1964.
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