ov icriiiii §0000011 wAleSler Stone Administration Building _ Arnold R. Meyer Institute of Biological Sciences Perlman Institute of Chemical Sciences 37-th Wn THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE REHOVOT 76100 • ISRAEL '71C1 IV OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT • 76 100 ninIni K , V73 n '7 November, 1989. Message from the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science as we know it today owes its success to the energies, skills, and wisdom of many men and women - scientists, statesmen and businessmen. Of these, few have played as salient a role in the Institute's growth and development as have the members of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the American involvement began. It was many years ago, before the War of Independence, before there was even a State of Israel. World War II still raged, and in Rehovot, the Daniel Sieff Institute - established in 1934 thanks to the generosity of Weizmann's British friends Israel and Rebecca Sieff - was beginning to play a significant role in the war effort and in developing the land and the economy. Why the American involvement began is perhaps even more difficult to define. The motivations no doubt range from the utopian to the practical. The late Dewey D. Stone, who together with Harry Levine and Meyer Weisgal was one of the prime movers in the campaign to enlarge the Daniel Sieff Institute and rename it in honor of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, liked to tell the following story about what moved him to begin working on behalf of the Institute. "It all began with a speech I heard Dr. Weizmann give in Boston back in 1940," wrote Dewey Stone of that fateful evening.. "I can only paraphrase in my own, infinitely less potent words, the thoughts which served so strikingly as inspiration. Dr. Weizmann exhorted us, saying: 'I cannot understand smart businessmen like yourselves. You gamble tens of thousands, even millions of dollars on monumental business risks. But why are most of you so reluctant to spend even a small part of these great sums on the worthiest risk of all - the human mind?...Only one of millions possesses the spark of genius which alters the course of human history. Who knows where - or when - another Ehrlich, Pasteur, or Einstein may be found? Or lost to us forever because men like yourselves did not provide the tools needed to work, or the laboratories in which he had to be housed... — For Dewey Stone, those words triggered a response that led to an intense commitment to Israel and the Weizmann Institute, one that would last the rest of his life. Over the years hundreds - eventually thousands - of other Americans have been moved to respond to the needs of the burgeoning Weizmann Institute. For almost fifty years these men and women of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute have demonstrated an ever-growing commitment to promoting the Institute and helping us to develop and maintain our standards of excellence. Their faith in our abilities and their support of our talents have earned them a rightful share in our accomplishments. It therefore gives me particular pleasure on this occasion to salute the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science as true partners in the progress of the Weizmann Institute Of Science. Schaefer Solar Furnace Feinberg Graduate School K. B. Weissman Institute of Physical Sciences _ Prof. Haim Harari Ulmann Institute of Life Sciences CABLE ADDRESS: WEIZINS: (Iiroel) :0'pin13 :7 pn • PHONE: 108)483278, 482852 [HINE( .RPZAVI@ WEIZMANN • jtD7c TELEX: 381300 WIX IL :17,7'7U FAX: 972 - 8471667 : CpD For further information, please contact American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Detroit Robert Sosnick, Chairman Ira Mondry, President, Weizmann League Edie Slotkin, Executive Director (313) 855-4112 Charles and Tillie K. Lubin Building