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- 31 October 1965-October 1968 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence about and with potential donors, arranging meetings and visits to the Salk Institute, and discussing opportunities to raise the profile of the Salk Institute. Also include reports of donations made, grants and fellowships awarded, a summary of the Institute's financial assets, liabilities and operating funds (Oct 1965), and a report on fund raising at the Institute (Dec 1965).
Correspondence includes letters between Jonas Salk and Walt Disney on the possibility of making a film about the Institute, and a copy of a letter from E M Ramsey, Jr. (Public Relations Director, Salk Institute) to Edward Finney (President, Independent Motion Picture Producers' Association) about the Salk Institute Women's Association sponsoring the premier of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff'.