LETTER TO MR. ALLEN W. DULLES FROM WALTER P. PAEPCKE

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• Publication Date: February 24, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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Executide Registzy
CONTAINER CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Mr. Allen W. Dulles, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
2430 E Street
Washington, D. C.
February 24, 1959
Some years ago, when Henry Ford had invited many of us to attend
the American Heritage Conference in Washington, you were the
speaker and I had the pleasure of meeting you personally. For
further identification, I think you know my brother-in-law, Paul
H. Nitze, quite well.
For sometime we have been hoping that we could persuade you and
Mrs. Dulles to attend for a fortnight, one of the Aspen Executives'
programs. These begin in early June and run at two-week intervals
throughout the summer, ending late in September. The attached
folder will give you a little more detailed information. These
sessions include reading assignments and seminar discussions for
high officers of business. Also present are some of the top labor
leaders, educators, gentlemen of government, men of science, and
foreign diplomats.
Some of the Special Guests in the past have been three of the
Supreme Court Justices, Messrs. Harlan, Black and Brennan; some
of the foreign diplomats have included Sir Harold Caccia, Henrik
de Kauffmann, Eelco van Kleffens, Sir Leslie Munro, etc.
Realizing that at this particular time you are no doubt unusually
preoccupied with both governmental and personal matters, neverthe-
less, I was wondering whether you could give this matter some
thought and let us know whether, in principle, you felt you might
give favorable consideration to attending a session this summer.
As you know, Washington and the rest of the country, is pretty
hot and humid in the months of July and August, while Colorado is
cool and pleasant. However, more seriously, we believe the Aspen
Institute program is an extremely important one during the present
state of our contemporary society, both nationally and inter-
nationally. Your presence would add further importance and
distinction to a session.
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Mr. Allen W. Dulles Page
Naturally, the Aspen Institute would want to have you and Mrs.
Dulles as its guests. The trip by plane from Washington to
Denver is a relatively simple one these days and then a twin-
engine smaller plane flies guests to Aspen within forty-five
minutes.
Do give this matter some thought and let me know at your con-
venience whether it might be possible for you to come. A final
decision need not be made for two or three months.
With kindest personal regards, I am
WPP/gl
Walter P. Paepcke
Chairman of the Board
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If we and, more important, our successors are to meet the chal-
lenge of leadership, we need a philosophy which goes beyond
slogans. We need a philosophy we can defend because we under-
stand it, both in its sources and its consequences. We can't come
upon such a philosophy or such an understanding by accident."
WHAT A program designed to expand the executive's under-
standing of his role in society and the responsibilities
that go with leadership.
HOW By means of assigned readings and seminar discussions
with outstanding leaders from education, government,
religion, labor, science, business and the law.
WHO Top-executives of business, labor and the professions and
those on their way to leadership.
WHERE Aspen, Colorado, a beautiful mountain village west and
across the Continental Divide from Denver.
The modern executive is highly trained for his business responsi-
bilities. He understands research, production methods and cost
controls. He is deeply concerned with his personnel, interested in
public relations, carefully follows his sales and understands finance.
He is well prepared, has good judgment and is incisive in his busi-
ness decisions-
BUT Has he had the opportunity, or taken the time to analyze
his role in society, the role of "business" or his position
as a business leader?
Does he understand the sources of strength or the poten-
tial weaknesses in our society?
Does he know what he, believes in and why?
Does he have sufficient confidence in the rightness of his
beliefs to express his views courageously?
Is he articulate in expression and effective in providing
leadership to preserve our greatest strengths?
Is he aware of his obligation to champion the principles
upon which personal freedom and the free economy are
founded?
The Aspen Executives' Program is presented by the Aspen Institute
for Humanistic Studies, a not-for-profit corporation organized under
the laws of Colorado. Mr. Walter P. Paepcke, Chairman of the
Board, Container Corporation of America, is President of the Insti-
tute, and Mr. Glen A. Lloyd, Chicago attorney, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees, University of Chicago and former Assistant
Director of Foreign Operations Administration is Vice President.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Honorary Trustee. . . Lambarene, Africa
Robert O. Anderson, President,
Malco Refineries, Inc.. . . . . . . . Roswell, New Mexico
Louis T. Benezet, President,
Colorado College . . . . . . Colorado Springs, Colorado
Norman Cousins, Editor,
The Saturday Review . . . . . . . . . . . New York City
Gaylord A. Freeman, Jr., Vice President,
The First National Bank of Chicago . . . . . . . Chicago
William Gomberg,
Washington University . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Louis
Mack Harrell, Metropolitan Opera,
Trustee, Music Associates of Aspen . . . . . New York City
John L. Herron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aspen
Albert C. Jacobs, President,
Trinity College . . . . . . . . . . Hartford, Connecticut
Lawrence A. Kimpton, Chancellor,
University of Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . Chicago
W. Lee Knous, Judge, U.S. District Court . . . . . . . Denver
James Laughlin, Publisher . . . . . . . . Norfolk, Connecticut
Glen A. Lloyd, Attorney,
Bell, Boyd, Marshall & Lloyd . . . . . . . . . Chicago
David Mayer, Jr., President,
Maurice L. Rothschild . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chicago
Harald Pabst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Snowmass, Colorado
Walter P. Paepcke, Chairman of the Board,
Container Corporation of America . . . . . . . Chicago
Allan R. Phipps, Attorney,
Hughes & Dorsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Denver
Lt. Gen. E. R. Quesada . . . . . . . . . . . . . Los Angeles
Clarence B. Randall, Chairman,
Inland Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chicago
Neele E. Stearns, President,
Crane Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chicago
Robert L. Stearns, President,
Boettcher Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Denver
Dan Thornton, former Governor of Colorado . . . . . Denver
Thornton Wilder, playwright, novelist . . . Hamden, Connecticut
Raymond H. Wittcoff, Vice President,
Caradine Hat Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Louis
The Aspen Executives' Program is not ''just another college or intra-
company summer program." It is not intended to teach marketing,
finance, or business mangement. Rather, it is intended to develop
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the executive's understanding of his role in our society and the goals
toward which he can direct his life and the influence of the very
important organization that he leads. It is designed to teach him
more about himself and his responsibilities to others, and it does
this by providing him with the opportunity for analysis, the stimu-
lation of ideas and the challenge of discussion.
The Aspen seminar is not a high-pressure sales job for any pat
formula or political creed, nor does it purport to offer a capsule
education or cultural gloss in political history or theory in two easy
weeks. What the seminar does offer is a chance for a group of men
experienced in the responsibility of decision to take a breathing
spell in the midst of the typical press of day-to-day demands, to
reflect soberly on some basic problems of the nature of scoiety and
the individual's place in it.
WHAT METHODS ARE USED?
The effectiveness of the Aspen Executives' Program lies in the fact
that participants are stimulated to develop their own convictions
through exposure to-
1. Selected readings from the works of the world's great
philosophers, scholars, economists, historians and political
leaders.
2. Daily meetings with a varied and stimulating group for
informal discussion of ideas found in the readings, with spe-
cial emphasis on the application of these ideas to current
problems.
3. Lectures and panel discussions by authorities on inter-
national affairs two evenings a week, each followed the
next morning by informal discussion with the leaders.
Not the least of Aspen's advantages is the frequent opportunity-
at mealtime and during hours of recreation-to pursue with leaders
of divergent backgrounds the discussions that originate in the sem-
inars or following the lectures and panels. Indeed, some of a
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participant's most rewarding intellectual exercise may occur while
he is in a bathing suit, riding a horse or fishing in the companionship
of men distinguished by achievement in fields other than business.
READING ASSIGNMENTS.
The assigned reading, in part, is intended to give the participant a
brief "refresher course" in early American history, and to this end
includes many well-known, but ill-remembered, American debates,
discussions, and documents which played an important role in the
development of our form of Government and our economy. In
larger part, the readings are selected to present ideas which have
influenced, or are currently influencing, the course of our society,
including those written in opposition to many ideas which now pre-
vail. Thus, the great conflicts by which America has been, and is
being, shaped are presented. Through the impact of these readings
and the stimulation of discussion relative thereto, the participant's
own thinking in these areas is broadened and his own conclusions
developed.
The daily reading assignments are substantial but can be read in an
average of approximately one hour and a half. The specific assign-
ments, and all books, are sent to the participant immediately upon
registration. For maximum benefit, as well as to increase the par-
ticipant's enjoyment of the opportunities while in Aspen, it is
strongly recommended that he read as much as possible of the
assigned material before leaving for Aspen. A compact multilithed
folio of the readings is presented as well as the permanently bound
set of "The People Shall Judge." Wives are encouraged to read in
advance as well, and of course to take part as auditors.
LEADERS AND PARTICIPANTS
The distinguishing element in the Aspen program is the quality of its
leaders and participants. It is not dependent on any one university
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-or, indeed, any one country. Included among the moderators,
lecturers, and special guests during the last few years, have been:
AGRICULTURE
D. Howard Doane, Doane Agricultural Service
Allen Kline, President, American Farm Bureau
Hulbert Aldrich, President, New York Trust Company
Gaylord A. Freeman, Jr., Vice President, The First National Bank
of Chicago
Guy E. Reed, Exec. Vice Pres. & Director, Harris Trust and Savings
Bank
Baron H. C. von Tucher, Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich
Stuart Ball, Sidley, Austin & Burgess
Laird Bell, Bell, Boyd, Marshall & Lloyd
Chairman, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.
Charles P. Taft, Headley, Siebbald & Taft
Stanley Weigel, Attorney, San Francisco
Lynn A. Williams, Attorney, Chicago
Hugo Black, U. S. Supreme Court
John Marshall Harlan, U. S. Supreme Court
Charles E. Wyzanski
U. S. District Court, Massachusetts
President, Board of Overseers, Harvard College
ECONOMICS
Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, Former Chairman, Economic Advisors to the
President
EDUCATION
Chester M. Alter, Chancellor, Denver University
Louis T. Benezet, President, Colorado College
Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor, Vanderbilt University
Courtney C. Brown, Dean, Graduate School of Business, Columbia
University
John E. Burchard, Dean, Humanities and Social Studies, M.I.T.
Ernest Colwell, Dean of Faculties, Emory University
John Dickey, President, Dartmouth College
Clarence Faust, President, Fund for the Advancement of Education
Freidrich A. von Hayek, Committee of Social Thought, University
of Chicago
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre
Dame
Willard Hurst, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
Humayun Kabir, Secretary to the Ministry of Education, New Delhi,
India
Lawrence Kimpton, Chancellor, University of Chicago
Grayson Kirk, President, Columbia University
Jacob Klein, Dean, St. John's College
Sterling McMurrin, Dean, University of Utah
Prince Francis Schwarzenberg, Assistant Professor of
Political Science, Loyola University
F. Champion Ward, Ford Foundation
0. Meredith Wilson, President, University of Oregon
William Benton, former Senator from Connecticut
Sushil K. Dey, Acting Director, Bureau of Social Affairs, United
Nations
Edward T. Dickinson, Former Vice Chairman, National Security
Resources Board
J. W. Fulbright, United States Senate
Malcolm Henderson, British Ambassador to Luxemburg
Philip Kaiser, Former Assistant Secretary of Labor
Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish Ambassador to the United States
Clare Boothe Luce, former United States Ambassador to Italy
Charles Malik, Foreign Minister of Lebanon
Albert H. Rosenthal, Regional Director, Department of Health,
Education and Welfare
John Slezak, Civilian Aide to Secretary of Army
Dan Thornton, Former Governor of Colorado
E. N. van Kleffens, Netherlands Ambassador to Portugal (former
President, General Assembly, United Nations)
K. C. Wu, Former Governor of Formosa
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INDUSTRY
Daggett Harvey, Vice President, Fred Harvey
David Hill, President, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Meyer Kestnbaum, President, Hart Schaffner & Marx
Walter Koch, President, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph
Co.
Fred Maytag 11, President, The Maytag Company
Clarence Randall, Chairman, Inland Steel Company
David Shepard, Director, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
Neele E. Stearns, Vice President, Inland Steel Company
Langbourne Williams, President, Freeport Sulphur Company
INSURANCE
James Barker, Chairman, Allstate Insurance Company
Edmund Fitzgerald, President, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Co.
Thomas G. McGuire, President, Industrial Indemnity Co.
Norman Cousins, Editor, The Saturday Review
Sydney J. Harris, Columnist, The Chicago Daily News
Raymond Maley, Contributing Editor, Newsweek
James Reston, Washington Bureau, The New York Times
Edward Weeks, Editor, The Atlantic
LABOR
George Cavender, President, Colorado Federation of Labor, AFL
Nelson Cruikshank, Director of Social Security, AFL-CIO
Harold Gibbons, Warehouse & Distribution Workers' Union
William Gomberg, Director, Management Engineering Department
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Ralph Helstein, President, United Packinghouse Workers, CIO
O. A. Knight, President, United Oil Workers, CIO
Walter Reuther, President, United Auto Workers
Ted Silvey, CIO
Mart Starr, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Walter Turner, Vice President, International Printing Pressmen &
Assistants Union of North America
Jacques Barzun
Mark Van Doren
Clifton Fadiman
Thomas Hornsby Ferril
MEDICINE
Dr. Thomas M. French
Dr. Thomas Hoen
Dr. Charles S. Houston
Dr. William R. Lovelace III
Dr. Karl Menninger
Dr. Marvin A. Stevens
Dr. William Thomas
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PHILOSOPHY
Mortimer J. Adler, Institute for Philosophical Research
Yves Simon, The University of Chicago
Paul Weiss, Yale University
RELIGION
Bishop Donald J. Campbell, Episcopal Diocese, Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia
Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., University of Notre Dame
Rev. David R. Hunter, Director, The National Council Protestan?
Episcopal Church
Bishop Hanns Lilje, President, Lutheran World Federation
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Union Theological Seminary
Rabbi Edgar E. Siskin, North Shore Congregational Israel
Rev. Gerard Smith, S.J., Marquette University
SCIENCE
George A. Cowan, Los Alamos
Lee DuBridge, President, California Institute of Technology
Enrico Fermi*
George Gamow, University of Colorado
Donald J. Hughes, Brookhaven National Laboratories
Carson Mark, Los Alamos
Theodore Puck, Medical School, University of Colorado
Roderick Spence, Los Alamos
Leo Szilard, University of Chicago
*deceased
IT IS A FULL AND STIMULATING PROGRAM.
The Aspen Executives' Program is not a "vacation," in the conven-
tional sense. Most participants find that the program, the readings,
and the discussions in and outside the seminar, present a challenge
at least as mentally strenuous as their regular business life. But most
of them find, also, that the two weeks at Aspen have been a vaca-
tion in the deepest and original sense of that term-a "being free
from" the usual round of immediacies, with the real refreshment
that comes from truly new experience, in a new frame of reference.
THE LECTURE SERIES-"GREAT IDEAS OF WESTERN MAN"
Each week there will be at least one evening speaker on the subject
"Great Ideas of Western Man."
At an informal meeting held on the morning following each lecture,
the audience is invited to ask questions or challenge the points made
by the evening speaker.
One other evening each week a panel of important visitors to Aspen
discusses some aspect of international affairs. This is similarly fol-
lowed by an open forum discussion the next morning.
ASPEN HEALTH CENTER
Participants in the Executive Seminars are invited at no extra
charge to use the Aspen Health Center program of exercise, Sauna
and massage during their stay.
RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.
Aspen is located in the center of the Colorado Rockies surrounded
by a great mountain wilderness challenging the visitor to explore by
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foot or horseback. There are many beautiful drives throughout the
area and in almost every valley runs a turbulent trout stream.
The "Aspen Meadows" lodges, which were built to accommodate
the executive participants and their wives, have an excellent swim-
ming pool, tennis court, riding stables, etc., and the village of Aspen
offers many interests and activities.
Even more interesting to many of the participants, however, are the
opportunities to meet with the professional guests, the discussion
leaders, lecturers and musicians, in informal discussions and ex-
change of ideas.
THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Each year the world famous Aspen Music Festival brings to Aspen
from June until September, an outstanding symphony orchestra. This
year there will be a group of internationally known solo musicians
with Izler Solomon conducting the Aspen Festival Orchestra.
THE EXECUTIVE PARTICIPANT
As the function of the program is to give to the business executive
a broader understanding of his responsibility as a leader, the group
is largely made up of the present chief executives, prospective
leaders, and some younger executives, from many business organi-
zations, both large and small, throughout the United States.
Representative companies which have sent one or more participants
in the past five years include the following:
ACCOUNTING
Arthur Andersen & Company
ADVERTISING
Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago
BANKING
American National Bank, Chicago
American Trust Company, San Francisco
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
City National Bank of Chicago
Colorado National Bank
Commercial National Bank; Muskogee, Oklahoma
Continental Illinois National Bank, Chicago
First National Bank of Chicago
Harris Trust Company, Chicago
Merchandise National Bank, Chicago
National City Bank of New York
New York Trust Company
The Northern Trust Company, Chicago
Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis
The United States National Bank of Omaha
Companhia Swift do Brasil
Froedtert Malt Corporation
Great Western Sugar Company
Kellogg Company
Oscar Mayer & Company
INSURANCE
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Industrial Indemnity Company
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Kidder, Peabody & Company
Lehman Brothers
John Nuveen & Company
Walter E. Heller & Company
MANUFACTURING
Ace Carton Corporation
American Pulley Company
American Steel Foundries
Bell & Howell Company
Borg-Warner Corporation
Chance Vaught Aircraft, Inc.
Chicago Mill & Lumber Company
Container Corporation of America
Deere & Company
Dixie Bearings, Inc.
Embossograph Company
Emkay Motors
Farley Manufacturing Company
Gardner Board & Carton Company
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Houdaille Industries
Inland Steel Company
International Business Machines
International Harvester Company
International Paper Company
Joseph Ryerson Company
Marvel Metal Products Company
The Mengel Company
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Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
Pheoll Manufacturing Company
Pioneer Paper Stock Company
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Potlatch Forests, Incorporated
Pressed Steel Car Company
Q-Tips, Incorporated
Signode Steel Strapping Company
Southland Paper Company
Sutherland Paper Company
Studebaker Corporation
U.S. Industries, Inc.
West Michigan Steel Foundry Company
Weston Paper & Manufacturing Company
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
The Jaffe Agency, Inc.
PETROLEUM
Cities Service Company, Inc., New York
Cosden Petroleum Corporation
Creole Petroleum Company
Esso Standard Oil Company
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Malco Refineries, Inc.
Milton Oil Company
Ohio Oil Company
Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
Standard Oil Company (Ohio)
PHILANTHROPY
Lilly Endowment
Mellon Foundation
The Lovelace Foundation
Southwest Endowment Corporation
PRINTING & PUBLISHING
(able Printing Company
Lane Publishing Company
PUBLICATIONS
Fortune
Life
U.S. News
RESEARCH
Science Research Associates
RETAILING
Dayton's
1. Magnin & Company
Marshall Field & Company
TRANSPORTATION
Railway Express Agency
UTILITIES
Equitable Gas Company, Pittsburgh
Iowa Public Service Company
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company
Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company
REGISTRATION
Corporations expecting to attend are asked to indicate their inten-
tion to do so immediately and to specify the names of those
attending.
With respect to the dates, the institute may request a change for
late registrants in order that seminar groups may be kept rea-
sonably small and evenly distributed throughout the program.
ADDRESS INQUIRIES TO: The !Aspen Institute, Aspen, Cellovadle