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Signing ceremony for MIT-WHOI Joint program.

Signing ceremony for MIT-WHOI Joint program.
Signing ceremony for MIT-WHOI Joint program.
Signing ceremony for MIT-WHOI Joint program.
Signing ceremony for MIT-WHOI Joint program.
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Signing ceremony for MIT-WHOI Joint program.
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05/08/1968
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Howard Johnson, President of MIT and Paul Fye, WHOI Director. Signing ceremony held aboard Chain.
Image Of the Day repeat caption for 50th anniversary promo:
Fifty years ago this month, WHOI Director Paul Fye (seated, right) and Howard Johnson (seated, center), president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), signed a memorandum aboard the research vessel Chain to create the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. The journal Science called this partnership between two independent institutions unusual, if not unprecedented, but it has stood the test of time. The program is considered one of world's best graduate programs in oceanography. Witnesses included (standing, from left) Burr Steinbach, WHOI dean of graduate studies; Jerome Wiesner, MIT provost; and Frank Press, head of MIT's Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. To celebrate, there will be an alumni reunion at WHOI on July 21, and a symposium at MIT on Sept. 27, followed by a celebration the following day at WHOI.
Image used in "Down to the Sea For Science", page 125.
Image of The Day caption:
Howard Johnson (seated, center), president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Paul Fye (seated, right), director of WHOI, sign a memorandum creating the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography on May 8, 1968. Witnesses to the signing of the historic science education agreement on the research vessel Chain include Burr Steinbach, WHOI dean of graduate studies; Jerome Wiesner, MIT provost; and Frank Press, head of MIT's Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. At the time, the journal Science called the partnership "unusual, if not unprecedented."
Used in Oceanus magazine, vol. 47 n. 1, December 2008, page 5
Photo courtesy of WHOI Archives
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