Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]

Riesman, David, 1909-2002

Name: Riesman, David, 1909-2002 (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1968
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Abstract: Initial Carnegie Corporation-funded work on national policy study at Yale University; funding the publication of study findings, 1947-1949; publication of THE LONELY CROWD: A STUDY OF THE CHANGING AMERICAN CHARACTER, 1950; FACES IN THE CROWD: INDIVIDU AL STUDIES IN CHARACTER AND POLITICS, 1952; community studies in Kansas City; INDIVIDUALISM RECONSIDERED, 1953; TIME Magazine cover, 1954; Bureau of Applied Research, 1955; Carnegie grant for study on higher education; CONSTRAINT AND VARIETY IN AMERICAN EDUCATION, 1956; work for Fund for the Republic. Thoughts on being a Carnegie grant recipient; impact of grants on his work; the grant-seeking process; the Social Science Research Council (SSRC); CARNEGIE QUARTERLY; geographical distribution of grants; Henry S. Reuss’ committee on research and development; funding of politically divisive research; controversy surrounding Harvard University’s Russian Research Center; McCarthyist investigation of researchers; Carnegie’s task force on the role of states. Impressions of John W. Gardner, Everett C. Hughes, Harold D. Lasswell, Eugene V. Rostow.

Hughes, Everett C. (Everett Cherrington), 1897-1983

Name: Hughes, Everett C. (Everett Cherrington), 1897-1983 (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1967
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Abstract: Early impressions of Carnegie Corporation; THE IMMIGRANT PRESS AND ITS CONTROL; professor at McGill University; Social Science Research Council postdoctoral fellow in Germany; parallels between Catholic-Protestant relations on the Rhine and in French Canada; Canadian-American Relations studies funded by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; FRENCH CANADA IN TRANSITION, 1927-1937; professor at University of Chicago, 1938; funding from Rockefeller Foundation to study French Canada; term as Visiting Professor at Université Laval, 1941-1942; Kansas City studies; Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations; American Nurses Association nursing education study; Carnegie Commonwealth Fund support, 1951; BOYS IN WHITE: STUDENT CULTURE IN MEDICAL SCHOOL, 1961; report on relations of colleges to students requested through National Opinion Research Center, 1962-1965; aging and retirement study; CAREER PATTERNS OF YOUNG MONTREALERS IN CERTAIN WHITE-COLLAR OCCUPATIONS; POST-INDUSTRIAL QUEBEC; American Social Science Research Council. Impressions of C.A. Dawson, Robert M. MacIver, Howard Paul Becker, Charles Huggins.

Keppel, Francis, 1916-1990

Name: Keppel, Francis, 1916-1990 (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1967
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Abstract: Election of Francis’ father Frederick P. Keppel as President of Carnegie Corporation, 1923; childhood impressions of Carnegie from father’s work; sense of rivalry between Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundation; Frederick Keppel’s interests in arts and ad ult education; creation of American Association for Adult Education; music grant programs; involvement of Frederick and Francis Keppel in WWII government initiatives; Office of Scientific Research and Development; Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare & Recreation; American Council on Learned Societies Asian language instruction program, 1923-1947; Francis Keppel appointed Dean of Harvard University Graduate School of Education, 1948; Carnegie endowments to Harvard; Harvard under President James Bryant Conant; reforms to School of Education, 1948-1962; thoughts on the function of charitable foundations. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, James Bryant Conant, Frederick Osborn, Charles Dollard.

Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002

Name: Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1969
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Abstract: First impressions of Carnegie Corporation, 1946; area studies; Harvard Russian Research Center; Afro-American Institute; President of Carnegie Corporation, 1955-67; relations with trustees, other Carnegie organizations, staff selection; evaluation of foundation work. Impressions of Corporation officers and trustees.

Stackpole, Stephen Henry, 1911-

Name: Stackpole, Stephen Henry, 1911- (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1967
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Abstract: First contacts with the Carnegie Corporation, 1935; member of Corporation staff from 1940: impressions of office and employees; Army duty, 1940-45; educational testing program, 1946; Corporations's Commonwealth program, 1946-67: travel grants, selecti on of grantees, political complications, book sets, college and university programs, Anglo-American collaborations in Africa; African education program at Teachers College; evaluation of Commonwealth program; impressions of Frederick Keppel, Charles Dollard, John Gardner, Alan Pifer, and others.

Lloyd, Trevor Owen

Name: Lloyd, Trevor Owen (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1968
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Abstract: Founding of Canadian Association for Adult Education; Arctic Institute of North America at McGill University. Impressions of Whitney Shepardson and Morse Cartwright.

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