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1. Oral history interview with Charles Dollard, 1966
Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977
- Name: Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1966
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Career with Carnegie Corporation; assistant to president, 1938-45; executive associate, 1945-47; Vice President, 1947-48; President, 1948-54; grants in social sciences; Commonwealth program; discussion of policies, program, and personnel. Impressions of Frederick Keppel, Devereux Josephs, John Gardner, Florence Anderson, and others.
2. Oral history interview with Eric Larrabee, 1967
Larrabee, Eric
- Name: Larrabee, Eric (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Carnegie Endowment African Studies Program; music and art development in West Africa; American Studies program; American Shelf Project; European unity conference in Italy; International Education Act; differences in the structures of foundations, the need for creative thinking in foundations.
3. Oral history interview with Frederick Sheffield, 1967
Sheffield, Frederick, 1902-1971
- Name: Sheffield, Frederick, 1902-1971 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Invited by Morris Hadley to chair committee regarding the Community Service Society’s School of Social Work, 1944; became Carnegie Corporation trustee, 1955; the transition between John W. Gardner’s and Alan J. Pifer’s Corporation presidencies, 1966-1 967. Discussions of the process of selecting Carnegie grantees; lack of diversity on the Carnegie Board of Trustees and the process of selecting board members; the possibility of increasing Carnegie support of social services; the issue of foundations providing financial support to politically controversial programs; providing honorariums to board members; the relationship between foundation presidents and trustees; reflections on his Carnegie chairmanship; future usage of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion at 2 East 91st Street. Impressions of John W. Gardner, Alan J. Pifer, Morris Hadley, Charles Merville Spofford.
4. Oral history interview with John C. Honey, 1968
Honey, John C
- Name: Honey, John C (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Association with Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1957 through early 1960s; impressions of John Gardner and James Perkins.
5. Oral history interview with John Edmund Fitzgerald Wood, 1968
Wood, John Edmund Fitzgerald, 1903-1987
- Name: Wood, John Edmund Fitzgerald, 1903-1987 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Experiences as the Carnegie Corporation's Counsel; interpretation of the charter.
6. Oral history interview with R. McAllister Lloyd, 1967
Lloyd, R. McAllister, 1898-1985
- Name: Lloyd, R. McAllister, 1898-1985 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Vice President of Bank of New York; becoming President of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA) at request of new Carnegie Corporation President Devereux C. Josephs, 1945; negotiations for additional financial support from Carnegie Corpora tion; shuffling of investments; annuities and life insurance; transition from TIAA President to Chairman, 1946-1947; structure of TIAA and its trustees; relations with Carnegie Institution of Washington, creation of College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), 1948-1952; pensions and increasing life spans of teachers; major medical and disability. Impressions of D.C. Josephs, Vannevar Bush, R.C. Leffingwell, William C. Greenough.
7. Oral history interview with Robert Joseph Wert, 1967
Wert, Robert Joseph, 1922-
- Name: Wert, Robert Joseph, 1922- (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Graduate student, Stanford University; Carnegie Corporation staff, 1954-59; relations with college and unversity administrators; programs; report on education in the South; relations with other foundations and with Carnegie affiliates; "The American S helf"; Committee on Education; return to Stanford. Impressions of various Corporation officers.
8. Oral history interview with Robert MacDonald Lester, 1967
Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969
- Name: Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Detailed account of operations, personnel policies, relationships of Carnegie Corporation, 1926-1954. Impressions of Andrew Carnegie, Walter A. Jessup, Devereux Josephs, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frederick Keppel, and many other prominent educators and public figures.
9. Oral history interview with Samuel Stickney Hall, Jr., 1967
Hall, Samuel Stickney, 1894-1984
- Name: Hall, Samuel Stickney, 1894-1984 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Father's role in teacher's insurance program of Carnegie Foundation; Assistant Teasurer, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, 1919; investment officer for Carnegie philanthropies, 1921-40; impressions of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and various associa tes.
10. Oral history interview with Warren Randolph Burgess, 1967
Burgess, W. Randolph (Warren Randolph), 1889-1978
- Name: Burgess, W. Randolph (Warren Randolph), 1889-1978 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Trustee of Carnegie Corporation; vignettes of fellow trustees and discussions of policies.
11. Oral history interview with William T.R. Fox, 1968
Fox, William T. R. (William Thornton Rickert), 1912-1988
- Name: Fox, William T. R. (William Thornton Rickert), 1912-1988 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Becoming associate director of Yale University Institute of International Studies, 1943; formation of National War College, 1947; coming to Columbia University and becoming director of Institute of War and Peace Studies, 1950-1951; meeting of the Soci al Science Research Council Committee on Civil-Military Relations Research; PROBLEMS OF CIVILIAN-MILITARY RELATIONS; Carnegie Corporation grants to Columbia; resignation of McGeorge Bundy; creation of Russian hydrogen bomb, 1952-1954; military consultantship during Dwight D. Eisenhower administration; discussion of development of military policy since Spanish-American War; national security sponsorship; Samuel Huntington’s THE COMMON DEFENSE; SSRC seminar at University of Denver, 1955-1956; work editing Princeton journal WORLD POLITICS; meeting with General Dale O. Scott for Air Force briefing at Continental Air Defense Command; CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY, 1956-1957; ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON NATIONAL SECURITY: A REPORT, 1958; SOCIAL SCIENCES AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY conference at West Point, 1959; negative coverage of SSRC by Alice Widener in Indianapolis Star following Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961; SCIENTISTS AND NATIONAL POLICY MAKING conference jointly sponsored with Columbia Council for Atomic Age Studies; THE MILITARY AND INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY; 1961-1962; Dawson-Lucas memorandum, 1967. Impressions of James Alfred Perkins, Pendleton Herring, Harold Stein, John W. Gardner.