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Kennedy Center

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This file contains correspondence on the programs of the Center and operational aspects of the building; among the correspondents are Roger Stevens, S. Dillon Ripley, and Eric Leinsdorf.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

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Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

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Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001

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S. Dillon Ripley (b. September 20, 1913, New York City, NY - d. March 12, 2001, Washington, D.C.), an ornithologist, served as the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1964 to 1984, and oversaw tremendous growth. Interested in natural history and exploration since his childhood, Ripley visited the remote nation of Ladakh when he was only thirteen years old. After graduate school, he was a curator at the Smithsonian briefly and then spent almost twenty years teaching at Yale University. He le...