 The J. Erik Jonsson Center of the National Academy of Sciences, overlooking Quissett Harbor in Woods Hole on Cape Cod, is also named in honor of Jonsson.He also served as a trustee of Margaret's alma mater Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.Although founded in 1912, Skidmore started a new campus of which the Jonssons largely funded construction in the 1960s.