The Foreign Service Journal, May 2004

10 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / M A Y 2 0 0 4 L E T T E R S ees of our Foreign Service are scat- tered abroad, always ready, willing and able to help when we need them. Second, if you must be run over by a car, try and do so in Paris! God bless our Foreign Service employees for a job well done. Jimmy Hall Douglasville, Ga. We Are Not Princeton I would like to correct a statement in your February 2004 issue. In the article “George Kennan: AWitness to History,” William Lewis writes that “… Kennan departed Washington to take up an offer by an old friend and confidante, Robert Oppenheimer, to join Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, the university’s set- aside research center. …” Professor Kennan, a graduate of Princeton, is indeed an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. How- ever, the institute is not a “set-aside” or in any way part of Princeton University. The Institute for Advanced Study is an independent, private institution whose mission is to support advanc- ed scholarship and fundamental re- search in historical studies, mathe- matics, natural sciences and social science. We just happen to be locat- ed in the same town as that great institution, Princeton University. Perhaps because many of our profes- sors teach at Princeton University (pro bono) and because we rented space from the university during the first nine years of our existence, the confusion persists. Although we have the highest regard for Princeton University, we are, as you might imagine, somewhat protective of our independence. Allen I. Rowe Associate Director and Treasurer Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, N.J.