With such a fund, the annual income would be $4,000 or $5,000. In a preliminary solicitation, the first member directly approached agreed to contribute $5,000. If each member of the College were to contribute $100, the fund would immediately have $80,000. These were indeed ambitious plans for an organization that had yet to see $6,000 in its treasury. Fortunately, the College did not wait until its funds reached the $100,000 mark to begin supporting worthy projects. The 13th annual convocation in St. Louis in 1964 reaffirmed the College’s support of G. E. Kidder Smith’s book The New Churches of Europe and awarded a grant to Frederick Gutheim for his volume, Urban Renewal of Alvar Aalto. By January 1965 appeals for contributions to the fund had garnered over $21,000. 1965–197o: reaching toward the first goal Chancellor Perkins led the induction of 37 new Fellows in Washington, D.C., in 1965, including Philip Johnson and Jose Luis Sert. That year’s convocation is remembered for the attendance of many members of the Pan American Federation of Architects and the International Union of Architects. Presidentelect Morris Ketchum announced that the Arnold Brunner Scholarship had been awarded to Charles Blessing to develop a book on urban design. During the following year, Vice Chancellor Schlossman strongly encouraged Fellows to hold local meetings to continue the activity of the College between convocations. Schlossman hosted the first such gathering for Chicago-area Fellows at the Graham Foundation. Mies van der Rohe, in a particularly expansive mood, led the discussion that continued past midnight. Similar Fellows’ evenings were arranged by John Holabird Jr. in Chicago and George Mayer in Cleveland. Sixty members advanced to Fellowship at the 1966 investiture in Denver, including Edward L. Barnes, Louis De Moll, and Maximilian Urbahn. Kenzo Tange, whom the College had welcomed to Honorary Fellowship in 1963, received the Gold Medal. At their meeting, the Fellows voted to grant $5,000 to the Octagon for historic crystal lighting fixtures for the dining room and hall.
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History of the College of Fellows