April 2002
Vol. VIII, No.3

Lovett-Woodsum Pledge
$100,000 to the Institute's Project to Build a Headquarters

Anne R. Lovett and Stephen G. Woodsum of Boston, Mass., have pledged $100,000 to the U.S. Institute of Peace for its project to build a permanent headquarters adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The pledge was made in memory of Lovett's grandfather Dr. A. Sidney Lovett of New Haven, Conn. The Lovett-Woodsum Family Fund at the Boston Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant toward payment of the pledge in January.

Dr. Lovett (1890–1979) was the renowned university chaplain of Yale University in 1932–58. Known universally as "Uncle Sid," he also taught biblical literature and was master of Pierson College. Dr. Lovett was active in social concerns for peace and, during World War II, he served as president of the World Student Service Fund. In retirement, he was executive director of Yale/China in Hong Kong. In honoring Lovett's memory, Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti said, "Sid Lovett embodied all that Yale stands for and wants to be. Perhaps no Yale person in this century touched as many lives in this community and beyond."

Dr. Lovett is the father of the Rev. Sidney Lovett of Holderness, N.H., who was a member of the Institute's first Board of Directors and has been a major figure in its evolution.

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