Opera Society Ball at Museum of History and Technology

Summary

Ninth annual Opera Society Ball at Museum of History and Technology, including special exhibition of historic jewels. With music provided by Peter Duchin and The Modern Rock Quartet.

Subject

• Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon) 1913-2001
• Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
• Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs

Notes

• Digital contact sheet available.
• In attendance include Secretary S. Dillon Ripley; Mary Livingston Ripley; George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State; Margaret McNamara; Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense and chairman of the the ball; Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; Ethel Kennedy; Bill D. Moyers, White House Press Secretary; Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior; Ermalee Webb Udall; Judith Davidson Moyers; Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture; Jane C. Shields Freeman; Walt W. Rostow, U.S. National Security Advisor; Elspeth Rostow; Paul Henry Nitze, Secretary of the Navy; Cyrus Roberts Vance, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Janet Lee Bouvier; Michael Forrestal; Joan Bennett Kennedy; Randolph A. Kidder, diplomat; Mary Ethel De Limur Carothers; ; James W. Symington, U.S. Chief of Protocol; Sylvia Schlapp Symington; Leonard Marks, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force; Mrs. Stanley Woodward; Llewellyn E. "Tommy" Thompson Jr., American diplomat; Jane Monroe Goelet Thompson; Blanche Thebom, opera singer; Joseph Lambert, architect; Libby Anderson Cater; Prince Gholam Reza Pahlavi of Iran; Princess Manijeh Jahanbani; Mrs. Khosrow Khosrovani, wife of the Iranian Ambassador; Sol Myron Linowitz, chair of the Xerox corporation; Karl F. Landegger, businessman; Lydia King Phelps Stokes, wife of U.S. Attorney General; Janet Jennings Auchincloss; Lewis Polk Rutherfurd; Arthur W. Sloan, president of the Atlantic Research Corporation; Catherine Filene Shouse; Roger Lacey Stevens, founding Chairman of theKennedy Center for the Performing Artsand theNational Endowment for the Arts; HobartA.Spalding, president of the Opera Society of Washington; Lauder Greenway, chairman of theMetropolitan Opera Association; Liz Carpenter, press secretary for First LadyLady Bird Johnson; and Les Carpenter.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 01, Image No. OPA-35

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

• 1965
• May 7, 1966

Restrictions & Rights

No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu

Topic

Special events

Form/Genre

Black-and-white negatives

Local number

SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-35]

Physical description

35mm;

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