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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

APPENDIX 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

There follows the text of the resolution adopted by the Board of Regents to signify the gratitude of the Board of Dr. Carmichael's distinguished service to the Smithsonian Institution. 

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

THE BOARD OF REGENTS PRESENTS THIS TRIBUTE OF APPRECIATION TO LEONARD CARMICHAEL

GREETINGS: 

BE IT RESOLVED:

WHEREAS, on January 31, 1964, Leonard Carmichael will retire as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after eleven years of superb leadership and achievement in that office; and 

WHEREAS, in his tenure as the seventh Secretary since 1846, remarkable advances in the usefulness and the vision of the Institution were made, redounding to his credit, to ours, and to the People of the United States. Among these advances were: 

Enlargement of the professional staff in numbers and distinction...Expansion of the scholarly publication program and its continued world-wide acclaim... Planning, supervision of construction, and opening of the great new Museum of History and Technology; 

Of notable importance also were the enlargement of the Museum of Natural History...Transfer of the handsome and historic United States Patent Office Building to the Smithsonian as a long-sought National Portrait Gallery... And for the children of the Nation and the young-in-heart, a wonderfully improved National Zoological Park; 

With his knowledge and deft touch, almost all public displays were modernized and many new exhibit halls were opened... The famed Astrophysical Observatory, relocated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, turned its farseeing eyes to space-age projects, including the establishment of satellite observing stations around the globe;

As an Ex-Officio Trustee, Dr. Carmichael has been tireless in his efforts on behalf of the National Cultural Center, a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, now renamed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by action of the Congress. Likewise, the National Gallery of Art, also a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, has greatly benefited by the distinguished services rendered by Dr. Carmichael as an Ex-Officio Trustee of the National Gallery;