Avery Gateway Dedication

Dr. Bronk

September 29, 1965

I would join with my colleague Dr. McCarty in thanking the speakers who have

come here and have made this such a memorable afternoon.  Dr. Avery would

have been grateful to those of the speakers who knew him, having remembered

him so affectionately, and so significantly.end I know,too,because of his
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deep interest in young people that he would have been greatly pleased to

realize that his work had been and was being helpful to Dr. Holley in the

midst of his productive career.  There was one I had hoped we might have say

a few words to us, I promised him that I would not call on him.$ut if Roy

Avery would release me from that promise,1 know you'd all join with me in
being pleased to have him say a few words to us.  If he won't release me

from that promise,1 insist that he at least stand up so that when you see

him later, if you don't know him, you'll recognize him,tut I hope that he
will release me from the promise too.

CR., A-q-j  'I am so filled.with emotion at this time that it is hard

to articulate and I want to tell   A& &4 8
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appreciate being here at this dedication, very deeply,

thank you.'
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We're so happy that Mrs. Avery could be here with us too.  It was a great

satisfaction to Fess that he was able to spend so many summers with his
brothesI&gt$ whom he was very fond, there on De& Isls~$i.ch I've

already spoken.  When I wrote to Roy Avery and told him about our plans for
this afternoon I happened to be in Maine and I received one of the
delightful letters of my lifeJb?&se Roy spoke of the many days in which he

had been ears fore Chesney as he stood in the bow of that famous 60 year
old friendship sloop, The Dictatu, and listened as Roy said"for grunters, for
groaners and for boats starting up the Penobscot to sell their wares in Bangor."


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Ber &hose of you who have had  the privilege of hearing these lucid accounts
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of the great work of Fess Avery, know now,as you must have known before,that
Avery needs no physical memorial to keep his memory alive and immortaLbut
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3. ."-A-+ it was a selfish desire on the part of many of his friends
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and admirers to participate,ti4some small,insignificant part in the per-
petuation of hi& memory for some years,at least. And so one summer when
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Bill Tillitrand w Chesney and I were talking about some of our hopes

we decided that, or they decided that, they would like to give many of his

friends an opportunity to participate in this memorial.  The committee,

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who proceeded to do what they have done, was M

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is no longer with us, and Rufus Cole, Bee-Bkta who
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Tommy Francis, Bept Hasting, Michael Heidelberger,

Chesney, who unfortunately

again has departed, and

Colin MacLeod, Phil Miller,

Hugh Morgan, lost to us, and Bill Tillit:
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friends and admirers, David Rockefeller> Chairman of our Board of Trustees

and the other Trustees have asked me to express our gratitude, most for

your admiration and regard for Fess Avery, and also for this memorial which

now graces our campus.  In choosing an architect to do the work I emphasized
the necessity for dignity&d simplicity, and I also expressed the hope

   that the architect would be able to create something in stone that would
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come from Avery's native land.4 so what you will see,if you go to see the
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Gateway,is a simple structure with dignity and created out of Canadian red

granite.  And work was done by Nelson Aldrich of Boston and much of tllc
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detail was accomplished,as always here on our campus,by M Lupinek and

his strong associate, Paul Penndorf.  Colin MacLeod has told you about the
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late afternoons that he and Fess and Doe spent together in social and

scientific discourse and something more.  At 5 O'clock we will gather in

Welch Hall again for friendly discourse and something more.  Thank you

very much.