Oak Knoll closed to the public. 
Also in 1986, Dr. Dennis M. Wint was hired as President of the 
Science Center. He came to plan, develop, and coordinate future growth. 
Later in the year, the Commissioners approved Wint’s master planning 
schedule and program. And in November 1987, the master planning 
process was completed. The master plan included a refined mission state- 
ment, goals and objectives, plans for programs and a new building, 
strategies for a capital campaign, and guidelines for the cultivation of 
current and new friends of the Science Center.!” 
The Academy of Science of St. Louis, as the oldest and most loyal 
friend of the re-christened institution, will have its office in the new 
Science Center building when it is completed in the early 1990s. From 
this new location, only a few miles from where the founders of the 
Academy held their first meeting in 1856, the Academy of Science of 
St. Louis will direct new projects and meet new challenges. In the new 
Science Center—which will house technologies and where scientific prin- 
ciples and theories will be interpreted the likes of which the founders 
never dreamed—the members of the Academy will go on in the tradi- 
tion of George Engelmann, William Trelease, Charles Henry Turner, 
James B. Macelwane, Harold Bulger, and Stratford Lee Morton. 
Furthermore, they will forge ahead, making the path clearer for those 
who wish to embark on expeditions of discovery for the sake of en- 
hancing human power and knowledge. 
