Yale
Weekly Bulletin & Calendar

Published by the Office of the Secretary

February 4-11, 1991

Vol. 19, No. 19

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Chubb Fellow Willie Colón.
Page 3.

Gift to fund international studies center

Foundation's $10 million award
will create 'enduring memorial'
to alumnus Henry R. Luce

In the largest single gift it has ever
made, The Henry Luce Foundation Inc.
of New York has awarded $10 million to
Yale for the construction and endowment
of a major new academic facility to house
the University's programs in international
and area studies.

The new building will be called the
Henry R. Luce International Center in
honor of the founder of both the Time
Inc. publishing empire and the founda-
tion. Henry R. Luce was a 1920 graduate
of Yale College.

The award, which recognizes both
Yale's established eminence and the
Henry Luce Foundation's longstanding
interests in international studies, is not
only the foundation's largest single gift
but also one of the very few in its 54-year
history to be devoted to "bricks and
mortar."

The new Henry R. Luce International
Center, to be designed by a distinguished
architect, will contain faculty offices,
classrooms and research facilities for
Yale's international and foreign area pro-
grams. The approximately 30,000-
square-foot structure will also provide
public and reception areas for use during
visits by distinguished speakers, diplo-
mats, and international leaders. Plans call

for the new center to be erected near the
center of the campus, on a site between
Hillhouse Avenue and Prospect Street
that is close to the University's academic
and library facilities in the social sciences.

"I am delighted that our search for an
enduring memorial to my father at Yale

has finally been fulfilled," said Henry
Luce III, chairman and chief executive
officer of the foundation. "The Interna-
tional Center is the perfect symbol for
this purpose because it's a first, because
it's global and because, therefore, it deals

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Henry Luce III and President Benno C. Schmidt Jr. discuss the proposed site of the new center in international and area studies.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL MARSLAND