Oral history interview with Dorothy Rowden Loemker, 1967
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- Name
- Loemker, Dorothy Rowden (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Dorothy Rowden Loemker, 1967
- Abstract
- First experiences with Carnegie Corporation at meeting of American Library Association (ALA), 1927; editing work for Carnegie; coming to work as secretary at American Association for Adult Education (AAAE), ongoing adult education studies, 1928-1934; National Advisory Council on Radio in Education (NACRE); working with former AAAE collaborator and Columbia University Teachers College professor Leve ring Tyson to develop educational radio programming for CBS, 1934-1938; ADULT EDUCATION IN ACTION; work on adult education studies for AAAE; consulting work for ALA; AAAE’s struggles for funding; Morse A. Cartwright’s dismissal to Teachers College; editing ADULT EDUCATION JOURNAL; reflections on Cartwright’s falling out with AAAE, 1939-1951. Impressions of Morse A. Cartwright, Francis Keppel, Levering Tyson, Lyman Bryson.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Adult education; Radio in adult education; Endowments--Officials and employees; Loemker, Dorothy Rowden; Cartwright, Morse A. (Morse Adams), 1890-; Carnegie Corporation of New York; American Association for Adult and Continuing Education; Columbia University. Teachers College; National Advisory Council on Radio in Education (U.S.)
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1967
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 76 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Secretary, American Association for Adult Education; Institute for Adult Education, Columbia University Teachers College; Assistant Director and Secretary, John and Mary R. Markle Foundation.
- 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 June 28, 1967.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Oral History Archives at Columbia, Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-32ee-pd06