Raving Over Ripley

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Summary

Article features what several Smithsonian museum directors, staff and Board of Regent members had to say about retiring Smithsonian Institution Secretary, S. Dillon Ripley. A celebration, commemorating Ripley's term at the Smithsonian was held the previous night, where Ripley and his wife Mary Livingston Ripley received keepsake pins fashioned after the logo of the Smithsonian Institution.

Subject

  • Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
  • Ripley, Mary Moncrieffe Livingston

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Contained within

The Washington Post (Newspaper)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

Thursday, February 2, 1984

Topic

  • Secretaries
  • Retirement

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