The Fund for the USS Constitution Museum

"Since the founding of the Foundation in September, 1972 our main thrust has been to establish the Museum. Many individuals and corporations have given of their time and money to help us achieve this goal. Our present roster of members includes 53 individual and 26 corporate. Now that the Park Service has given us its intent to allow us to establish and maintain our Museum in Bldg. #22, there is every hope that the membership will increase because now we have something more than a dream to offer..."
--From the Secretary's Report to the Annual Meeting, 14 December, 1973

In order to open the USS Constitution Museum to the public in 1976, the Museum’s founders had to raise the funds needed to renovate the interior of Building 22 in the Charlestown Navy Yard, which was originally built in 1832, and install exhibitions about the history of “Old Ironsides.” It was estimated that it would cost $1.75 million to complete the work necessary. To raise the funds needed, the Founders established “The Fund for the USS Constitution Museum” and created a committee, chaired by Charles Francis Adams, to coordinate the fundraising initiative. As part of the fundraising campaign, two primary giving categories were created: Founders and Plank Owners.

The USS Constitution Museum would like to acknowledge and thank its earliest donors and supporters for their generosity, without which the Museum may not have been able to open its doors to the public.

Founders ($5,000+)

Charles F. Adams
Jason A. Aisner
Alfred E. Chase Charity Foundation
Alfred Seymour Newhall Trust
Arthur Andersen & Company
Arthur D. Little Foundation
Anthony Athanas
A-T-O Inc.
James H. Ballou
Ida S. Barter Trust
The Boston Globe
Cabot Corporation
The Commandant’s Foundation
Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund
William A. Coolidge
Mrs. William C. Cox
Mr. & Mrs. William R. Cuming
David Greenewalt Charitable Trust
Dennison Foundation, Inc.
Ralph G. Doering, Jr.
The Doulos Family
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Edwin S. Webster Foundation
Elizabeth Killam Rodgers Trust
The Ellison Foundation
William P. Ellison
First National Bank of Boston
Florian O. Bartlett Trust
Gardner Charitable Trust
General Cinema Corp.
General Electric Company

George F. & Sybil H. Fuller  Foundation
George I. Alden Trust
The Gillette Charitable & Educational Foundation
Institute for Museum Services
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Charles Hayden Foundation
The Humane Society of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Andrew A. Hunter
Leon F. Kaufman
CAPT J. Richard Lamere
Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies
Mrs. Ronald T. Lyman
Mabel Louise Riley Trust
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
Massachusetts Elks Associates, Inc.
Massachusetts Medical Society
Massachusetts Society of the Daughters of 1812 in memory of Eleanor Stevens Galvin
Honorable John W. McCormack
W. James McDonald
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
RADM Samuel Eliot Morison
Sherman Morss
Nathaniel and Elizabeth P. Stevens Foundation
Navy Night at the Pops

New England Mutual Life Insurance Company
New England Telephone
Northeast Petroleum Industries, Inc.
The Harold Whitworth Charitable Trust
Raytheon Company
Perpetual Trust for Charitable Giving
Pier 4 Restaurant
Proctor Ellison Company
The Prudential Insurance Company of America
In Memory of A.C. Ratshesky
Revere Sugar Refinery
Rowland Foundation
RADM Richard E. Rumble
Honorable Leverett Saltonstall
Schrafft Charitable Trust
Peter B. Seamans
Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Selle
State Street Bank and Trust Company
Davis Taylor
Touche Ross & Company
The USS Constitution Museum League of Volunteers
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Julius Vogel
RADM Joseph C. Wylie

Plank Owners ($1,000-$4,999)

Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Adams
Albert O. Wilson Foundation, Inc.
Albert Trostel & Sons Company
Mr. & Mrs. Vernon R. Alden
Alexander H. Bright Charitable Trust
Alfred E. Chase Charity Foundation
Alice Willard Dorr Foundation
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company
Mrs. Vincent Astor
Atlantic Savings Bank
Atwater Kent Foundation Inc.
Alan C. Bemis
B.F. Goodrich Company
S. Prestly Blake
The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
Boston Red Sox
Charles Brennick
Horace O. Bright Charitable Fund
Mrs. Franklin S. Browning
Mr. & Mrs. John T. Buckley
Claus Von Bulow
Mrs. Henry B. Cabot
Henry B. Cabot, Jr.
Charlestown Savings Bank
Mr. K. Paul Chase / Thomas Sirahan Co.
Coleman F. Church, III
Church Family Charitable Trust
Dr. & Mrs. George H.A. Clowes, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. A. Werk Cook
Coopers & Lybrand
The Cornelius A. & Muriel P. Wood Charity Fund
T.A. DeMoulas

 

James Doulos
Alfred B. Downes
Dynamac, Inc.
E.F. Hutton Company
Fiduciary Charitable Foundation
Franco American Amvets Post #161
The Fuller Foundation, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Fuller
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gardiner
General Mills Foundation
Isabella Grandin
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Grandin
Carl W. Haffenreffer
Captain & Mrs. Leon Hammer
Henderson Foundation
Bayard Henry
Honeywell
Henry S. Howe
H.P. Hood, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Hulsman
International Business Machine Corp.
James Jackson, Jr.
Henry King
Ronald T. Lyman, Jr.
James L. Madden
John F. Madden
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Magee
Mr. & Mrs. William D. Manice, Jr.
In Memory of CDR John Farrell Madden, USNR
Markem Foundation
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association
Massachusetts National Guard
Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
Massachusetts State Labor Council AFL-CIO

Massachusetts Veterans of Foreign Wars
McGraw Hill Foundation, Inc.
Thomas J. Moore
Mutual Bank for Savings
Nautilus Foundation Inc.
Naval Aviation Air Show South Weymouth, MA
Thomas A. Pappas
Parker Brothers Games
Parker Charitable Foundation
Provident Insitution for Savings
Quincy Savings Bank
Revell, Inc.
Robert Allan Roth
Sailor’s Snug Harbor of Boston
Alan T. Schumacher
Sears and Other Funds
Mrs. Adelaide C. Sohier
Stone & Manning Inc.
The Talbots, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Thorndike
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert S. Tuckerman
United Brands Foundation
Veterans Administration
Mr. & Mrs. David W Warren
John H. Washburn
Thomas J. Watson III Trust
Wilbert S. Bartlett Trust
Walter E. Wilcox
William P. Anderson Foundation
Frederick Winthrop
Worcestor Telegram & Gazette Inc.
In Memory of Mr. & Mrs. Justin Eddy Wright
Wyman Gordan Foundation
In Memory of Our Mother Margaret C. Yevchak
1976

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