attention to the problems of youth employment, including grants
for remedial education, school-to-work transition projects, and
research on youth employment in the changing American economy;
further expansion of efforts to defend the civil rights of blacks,
Hispanics, women, and other disadvantaged groups in the United
States and in the developing world; the launching of the Urban
Community College Transfer Opportunities Program, which will
enhance the ability of minority and other community-college
students to pursue baccalaureate degrees; and a study of the
problems and opportunities presented by the various proposed
systems of national service.
In these and
many other ways, the Foundation continued its work to plant seeds
of knowledge, understanding, and hope.
This year
marked the departure of some valuable colleagues and the addition
of others. I would like to record a note of farewell and gratitude
to retiring Trustee Dorothy N. Marshall, Commonwealth Professor
Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts. During her two
successive six-year terms she filled a number of important roles,
most recently as Chair of the Education and Culture Committee. I
would like also to greet our newest Trustee, A. Bartlett Giamatti,
President of Yale.
Francis X.
Sutton, Deputy Vice President, retired after twenty-nine years,
having played a central role in the development of many of the
Foundation's programs in the United States and abroad. He will
continue to pursue literary and scholarly projects. After serving
for twenty years with abundant energy, dedication, and
resourcefulness, Howard R. Dressner retired as Vice President,
Secretary, and General Counsel. R. Peter Zimmermann, who ably
directed the Division of Financial and Administrative Services as
Vice President, resigned after two years to return to the business
world. To enhance administrative efficiency, the Division of
Financial and Administrative Services and the Office of the
Secretary and General Counsel are being consolidated in March 1984
under the direction of Barron M. Tenny, who was elected Vice
President, Secretary, and General Counsel to succeed Howard
Dressner. Mr. Tenny has served since March 1983 as Special
Assistant to the President.
Franklin A.
Thomas