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Bronze Beaver Awards ceremony in McDermott Court, 1966

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Group photograph of Bronze Beaver Award recipients in McDermott Court. Left to right are Robert S. Faurot, Robert Wilkins Forster, Joseph Warren Barker, Theodore August Mangelsdorf, Gibert H. Lewis and Oscar Henry Horovitz. Joseph Warren Barker holds a fleece and beaver shaped trophy. Alexander Calder's sculpture La Grande Voile (The Big Sail) is visible behind them. Technology Review, November 1966, p. 60.

Original Caption: "Inst. Gazette, Recipients of Beaver Awards".

Original Caption: "The M.I.T. Alumni Association honored four members and one class during the 1966 Alumni Officers' Conference by giving them 'Bronze Beaver' awards. The winners (left to right): Robert S. Faurot, '44, Robert W. Forster, '35, Joseph W. Barker, '16 (who is receiving a Beaver for the Class of 1916 from Theodore A. Mangelsdorf, '26, President of the Alumni Association), Gilbert H. Lewis, '51, and Oscar H. Horvitz, '22."

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