Oral history interview with Katherine Ford, 1968
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- Name
- Ford, Katherine (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Katherine Ford, 1968
- Abstract
- Coming to work at Carnegie Corporation, working for Eric Clarke in preparation for Andrew Carnegie Centennial, 1935; becoming secretary to Frederick P. Keppel, 1936; day-to-day administrative work at Carnegie; transition of Carnegie Corporation presidency from Keppel to Walter A. Jessup, 1941; Jessup’s death and D.C. Joseph’s assumption of Carnegie presidency, 1944-1945; transition from working in office of President to Carnegie Commonwealth program, Charles Dollard becoming Carnegie President, 1948; Stephen Henry Stackpole becoming head of Commonwealth initiative, 1953. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Stephen Henry Stackpole, Charles Dollard, Robert M. Lester.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Endowments--Officials and employees; Secretaries; Office management; Ford, Katherine; Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943; Jessup, Walter A. (Walter Albert), 1877-1944; Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977; Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1968
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 69 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Secretary to the President, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on July 11, 1968.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Oral History Archives at Columbia, Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-8mq3-nb45