Notation on the verso reads: "MEA near 1980. Florence said - take picture now - Implication: appearances will not improve! She is right. This is my formal portrait - to hang with my predecessors in my office, for better or worse, so be it."
Soon after his appointment as Dean of Harvard Medical School, though before he assumed that office, Robert Higgins Ebert (1914-1996) delivered this address at Vassar, at that time still a women's college. Ebert states, "I believe in education for…