Submitted by sais_adm1n on Tue, 2012-10-16 12:30
PHOTO: In this 1950s photo, Dean Philip Thayer (seated center, wearing a white shirt and head gear -- traditional Burmese "gaung baung") poses with other SAIS students, faculty and staff. In 1954 Dean Thayer established the short-lived Rangoon-Hopkins Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Rangoon, Burma.