The sum of $450,000 was raised at the 17th annual dinner tonight of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science which was attended by 1,500 persons.
The proceeds of the $250-per-plate dinner and other special gifts will be used for budgetary support of the Weizmann Institutes research program in the natural sciences. The guests included ten Nobel Prize Laureates. They were Dr. Andre F. Courand, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud, Dr. Robert Hofstadter, Dr. Fritz A. Lipmann, Dr. Rudolf L. Mossbauer, Dr. Severo Ochoa, Dr. Isidor I. Rabi, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Dr. William Shockley, and Dr. Selman A. Waksman.
The program tonight was developed in observance of the tenth anniversary of the death of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first President, for whom the Institute is named. Dr. Weizmann’s favorite musical compositions, Beethoven’s Egomont Overture and Bloch’s Sh’lomo Hebrew Rhapsody were performed by the Music for Westchester Symphony Orchestra directed by Siegfried Landau, with Leonard Rose as cello soloist.
A dramatic presentation highlighted major aspects in Dr. Weizmann’s career as statesman and scientist. Meyer W. Weisgal, executive head of the Institute gave the prologue to the presentation.
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