was renamed, the Falk School of Sustainability. The Falk Foundation made its first grant to Chatham in 1952 with the funding of Chatham's Falk Hall, named in honor of Laura Falk. Falk held the record for largest Atlantic blue marlin caught on 50 pound line when he landed a 551-pounder of Andros Island in the Bahamas in 1960. He caught the marlin from his yacht, Saba. University of Pittsburgh Falk, while serving as the vice-chairman of the University of Pittsburgh's Board of Trustees in 1966, gave the university his house on Devonshire Street in the Shadyside neighborhood to serve as the Chancellor's Residence, a function in which the house still serves. Fanny Edel Falk Elementary School Leon Falk, Jr. and his sister Marjorie Falk Levy began planning a memorial to their parents in 1929. Having ruled out an addition to the Falk Memorial at Rodef Shalom, they founded an elementary school in honor of their mother, Fanny Edel Falk Elementary School (now Falk Laboratory School). The school was intended to promote progressive and experimental methods of teaching that could be observed and studied by those pursuing a teaching degree. The school was created as a laboratory for teaching, directly connected to the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Established under a charter agreement between the University and Leon Falk, Jr. and Marjorie Falk Levy in 1930, the school has a unique status among American laboratory schools in that it is the only one that is known to have a legal charter that stipulates its purpose and functions. Construction was completed on January 13, 1932 and the school opened in the fall of 1932. Dominican Republic Settlement Association The Evian Conference in 1938 was organized to find solutions to the growing Jewish refugee crisis in Nazi Germany. The Dominican Republic and its dictatorial leader Rafael Trujillo agreed to accept 100,000 refugees, the only of 32 countries at the conference willing to increase their limits. Falk Jr became a leader in the Dominican Republic Settlement Association, or DORSA, an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee project to resettle Jewish refugees from Europe to a colony in Sosúa, Dominican Republic. Falk Jr eventually served as president of the association from 1941 to 1942. Falk Jr and his wife Katherine were very active in the association, including sponsoring some of the trips, arranging grants from the Falk Foundation and visiting the colony several