Aboard the research vessel Chain, MIT President Howard W. Johnson (left) and WHOI Director Paul Fye sign the memorandum of agreement that created the MIT/WHOI Joint Program on May 8, 1968. In the back row are (left to right): WHOI Dean of Graduate Studies H. Burr Steinbach, MIT Provost Jerome Wiesner, and Frank Press, head of MIT’s Earth Science Department.
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