Lessen dark circles under eyes:  Put something cold on the undereye area.  Visible blood vessels may contribute to dark circles under your eyes.  Try holding a cold, wet cloth against the area to help shrink the blood vessels.  Or use a cold teaspoon or a bag of frozen peas wrapped in a soft cloth.  When you go to bed, raise your head with pillows.  This helps prevent puffiness caused by fluid pooling in your lower eyelids.  Sleep more.  Although short nights alone don't usually cause undereye circles, a lack of sleep may make shadows and circles you already have more obvious.  Avoiding drinking too much alcohol.  Alcohol overuse may contribute to dark circles under the eyes.  https://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms/dark-circles-under-eyes/in-depth/sym-20050624?p=1#:~:text=Try%20holding%20a%20cold%2C%20wet,to%20buy%20without%20a%20prescription.   

Museum director Otto Wittmann, Jr. (1911-2001) was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri.  After graduating with a degree in fine arts from Harvard University in 1933, he returned to his hometown as Curator of Prints at the Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (today the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art).  Due to the incredible financial difficulties of the Great Depression, he could not afford to reenroll at Harvard for graduate studies.  However, in 1937 Paul J. Sachs, future member of the Roberts Commission, named Wittmann his assistant so he could enroll in his legendary Museum Studies course without cost.  In the following years he worked as an instructor of art history at Skidmore College and curator of the Hyde Collection, the prominent private collection of Renaissance and eighteenth-century works of art in Glen Falls, New York.  He worked closely with Mrs. Hyde to transform the collection into a respected museum.  Wittmann was drafted into the U.S. Army in early 1941 and served as an interviewer of incoming draftees.  After several months, he returned to the United States on reserve status and accepted the position of Assistant Director of the Portland Art Museum.  Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Wittmann was called back to service with the Air Transport Command, the first worldwide airline built specifically to move troops and supplies by plane.  Wittmann later became Officer in Charge of the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).  He traveled to Europe on many occasions, conducting investigations on Nazi looting activities, most notably the dealings of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR).  He assisted Monuments Officer Lt. Bernard Taper with the interrogation of the Nazi art dealer Hans Wendland, who was involved in the transfer of ERR-looted works of art to the infamous Fischer Gallery in Switzerland.  For his work with the ALIU, he was named an Officer of the French Legion of Honor, Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (the Netherlands), and Commander of the Order of Merit (Italy).  Upon his return home to the United States in 1946, Wittmann began a thirty-year career at the Toledo Museum of Art which included his appointment to Director in 1959.  Under his leadership, the museum established internationally-ranked education programs, tripled its collection, and doubled its exhibition space.  His keen eye and innate understanding of the art market guided acquisitions of some of the best American, Dutch, and seventeenth-century Italian and French paintings available.  He organized numerous successful exhibitions, including France:  The Splendid Century (1961) and The Age of Rembrandt (1966).  In honor of his retirement in 1976, the museum presented Treasures for Toledo, a retrospective of his most notable acquisitions.  Wittmann’s success at the Toledo Museum of Art attracted the attention of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.  In 1976, following the death of its founder, billionaire oil baron J. Paul Getty, the museum became the sole beneficiary of a $700 million estate (today, almost $3 billion).  The museum’s board of trustees, which consisted of businessmen with little knowledge of art, enlisted the help of Wittmann, who guided the museum through its most transformative period.  From 1978 to 1989 he served as chair of the museum’s acquisition committee, vastly expanding its collection by acquiring Greek and Roman antiquities, French decorative arts, and Old Masters outside the spending limit of typical museums.  His election to trustee in 1979 and appointment to acting chief curator in 1980 effectively placed the museum within his sole control.  In 1980 he established the J. Paul Getty Museum Trust, which endures today as one of the world’s leading providers of international grants for the humanities.  In 1987 he was awarded the American Association of Museums’ Award for Distinguished Service to Museums.  In addition to his work with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Wittmann served as a trustee of both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  He was a founding member of the National Council on the Arts and an advisor to both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a two-time President of the American Association of Art Museum Directors, Director of the College Art Association, and a member of the American Association of Museums.  https://www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/monuments-men-and-women/otto-wittmann?srsltid=AfmBOopXZsr_-F2ckWHcbniqMsYUeJGAGxMWuZa1DGzJJcNiGsoaOUvP   

Born in 1919 in Indianapolis, Beurt SerVaas grew up during the Great Depression.  After losing work as a salesman, his father was jobless for two years.  During this time, his mother worked as a full-time teacher for half-time pay.  Young SerVaas pitched in and carried two paper routes, did housework, and helped care for his younger brother and sister.  During his teens, SerVaas edited the high school newspaper, became an Eagle Scout, and earned his amateur radio license.  At the same time, he pursued both academic and commercial courses in school and helped the family finances by selling oil to garages and truckers.  His grades and activities in high school earned him a scholarship to Indiana University's Extension Division, where he worked as a janitor to earn his board.  Next, he enrolled at the University of Mexico, living with a Mexican family and earning his keep by teaching the children English.  Then he returned to finish at Indiana with degrees in chemistry, history, and Spanish, along with a teaching certificate.  SerVaas began his career building low-cost housing, but his plans were cut short by World War II, which he spent as a naval officer in China for the Secret Intelligence Division of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).  After the war, SerVaas took $5,000 in savings and returned to Indianapolis to begin again.  Eventually, he purchased and successfully reorganized more than 20 small- and medium-sized diversified companies.  In 1970, he acquired and became chairman of Curtis Publishing Company, which published more than a dozen magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post.  His business empire, SerVaas, Inc., eventually included 21 companies that specialize in everything from European foreign trade to pharmaceutical licensing and manufacturing.  As a member and president of the Indianapolis City Council for 37 years, SerVaas was an unabashed booster of the Hoosier capital.  He often said Indianapolis was "a dirty old city" that had never really recovered from World War I, let alone World War II.  Under his tenure, the city and surrounding Marion County were consolidated under the model of Uni-Gov to make a more efficient government, with Indianapolis quickly ranking 14th in size in the nation.  With an avid interest in health and medicine, SerVaas entered Indiana University Medical School as a part-time student when he was in his 40s, earning a doctorate in medical science.  He became involved in medical research as well as the development of new drugs and instrumentation aimed at the 21st century practice.  Through a foundation, SerVaas and his wife, Corey, continued to publish Saturday Evening Post and several children's magazines such as Jack & Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Weekly Reader Magazine, Children's Digest, Child's Life, and Turtle.  https://horatioalger.org/members/detail/beurt-r-servaas/    

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