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Excerpt from Annual Report for the Fiscal Year, July 1, 1980 June 30, 1981 During the year under review, the Institute lost three of its Trustees Emeriti, each of whom in different ways made major contributions to the building of the institution to which all were devoted. Amory Houghton, Sr., chairman emeritus of the Coming Glass Works, former United States ambassador to France, and Institute Trustee and Trustee Emeritus since 1967, died at the Medical University Hospital in Charles ton, South Carolina, on February 21, 1981. He was preceded on the Institute Board by his father, Alanson B. Houghton, who served as the first Chairman of the Institute and as its President. Amory Houghton was succeeded on the Board by his son James R. Houghton, who has been an Institute Trustee since 1971. The service of this illustrious family to the Institute over the five decades of its existence has been exemplary in every way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.