18 Architects to Advise About Kennedy Library

An 18-man panel, including two School of Design Faculty members, will serve as an architectural advisory committee for the Kennedy Library to be built near the Business School, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy announced Tuesday.

The committee will develop a general architectural program after visiting the Charles River site chosen by Kennedy before his death. The actual architect or firm that will design the Library will then either be appointed or chosen in an open competition.

The first foreign government contribution to the Library fund drive was received Tuesday when Venezuelan Ambassador Enrique Tejera Paris presented Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48 with a check for $100,000. Puerto Rico pledged an equal amount Wednesday.

These gifts bring the total to nearly $5 million that has been pledged towards the $10 million goal. This includes about $2 million in private contributions, half of it in small amounts; $2 million pledged in special assessments to be levied upon individual members of the AFL-CIO; and $1 million from the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation.

The Mexican government is expected to make a contribution soon, and according to an article published in the New York Times in January, several Latin American universities have indicated that they may contribute to the Kennedy fund.

Jose A. Mora, Secretary General of the OAS, spoke Wednesday at a luncheon given at the Pan American Union to spur the Latin American fund drive.

Advisers to Be Interviewed

The program to tape-record interviews with over 100 of Kennedy's friends and advisers also got under way earlier this week. Free-lance writer John Barlow Martin began questioning Atty. Gen. Kennedy, and Theodore White, author of The Making of the President 1960, began interviewing presidential press secretary Pierre Salinger.

Carl Kaysen, professor of Economics, will be interviewed on his work as a Kennedy economic adviser, and will question other advisers in his field.

National security adviser McGeorge Bundy, former Dean of the Facuty, has chosen Columbia University political scientist Richard Neustadt as his interviewer. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 will interview Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Mrs. Kennedy.

The design advisory committee includes four men from the Boston area: Hideo Sasaki, professor of Landscape Architecture, Benjamin Thompson, professor of Architecture, Hugh A. Stubbins, the Cambridge architect who designed the Loeb Drama Center, and Pietro Belluschi, dean of the M.I.T. School of Design.

Among the others on the committee are Alar Aalto of Helsinki, who designed Baker House, a dorm at M.I.T.; Mies van der Rohe of Chicago, who designed the Seagrams Building in New York; Louis Kahn of the University of Pennsylvania; I. M. Pei, who draw up the general plan for the Boston Government Center; and Sir Basil Spence of London