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1. Oral history interview with Alan Pifer, 1967
Pifer, Alan J.
- Name: Pifer, Alan J. (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Introduction to the Carnegie Corporation; Commonwealth program: Ashby Commission, travels, especially in Africa; vice president, Carnegie Corporation, 1963-67: relationships with board members and staff, decision-making, programs and ideas, education of African Americans, the disadvantaged, educational television; role of foundations; presidency of Carnegie Corporation; sketches of officers, particularly John Gardner, James Perkins, Stephen Stackpole.
2. Oral history interview with Alger Hiss, 1968
Hiss, Alger
- Name: Hiss, Alger (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and its relations with Carnegie Corporation; role of trustees; impressions of Russell Leffingwell, Arthur Page, Whitney Shepardson.
3. Oral history interview with Constance McCue, 1967
McCue, Constance
- Name: McCue, Constance (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Administrative systems of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
4. Oral history interview with Dorothy Rowden Loemker, 1967
Loemker, Dorothy Rowden
- Name: Loemker, Dorothy Rowden (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- 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 Levering 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.
5. Oral history interview with Frederick Herbert Jackson, 1967
Jackson, Frederick H. (Frederick Herbert), 1919-2015
- Name: Jackson, Frederick H. (Frederick Herbert), 1919-2015 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Carnegie Corporation, 1955-64; mathematics program, university self-studies, honors programs, Chinese and Japanese language programs; evaluation of grants, daily routine, board of trustees; role of foundation officer; Afro-American education; administ rator at New York University, 1964. Impressions of John Gardner, James Perkins, Florence Anderson.
6. Oral history interview with Isabelle Neilson, 1967
Neilson, Isabelle
- Name: Neilson, Isabelle (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Work as secretary to Alfred Zantzinger Reed during his research on legal education at Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; work in Carnegie Cooperative Investment Office, 1936-1939; coming to work at investment office of Carnegie Corpo ration; taking business courses at New York University; transferring to role as Secretary to the President under Devereux C. Josephs; decision to pursue secretarial work in lieu of further exploring investments; establishment of Russian Research Center at Harvard University; 1939-1948; working as secretary to Columbia University President Frank D. Fackenthal; Charles Dollard, 1948-1955; secretary to John W. Gardner; Carnegie’s dealings with the New York Public Library, 1955-1967. Impressions of D.C. Josephs, Herbert C. Lee, Charles Dollard, Frank Diehl Fackenthal.
7. Oral history interview with James Winchester Campbell, 1967
Campbell, James Winchester, 1903-
- Name: Campbell, James Winchester, 1903- (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Associations with the Carnegie Corporation in 1925 and 1928-29; sale of US Steel bonds; accountant for Corporation, 1933; impressions of the Treasurer's office and other parts of the Corporation, fiscal matters; Assistant Treasurer, 1953; Treasurer, 1 961; the role of the treasurer in a foundation. Impressions of various foundation personalities.
8. Oral history interview with Joseph Esrey Johnson, 1968
Johnson, Joseph E. (Joseph Esrey), 1906-1990
- Name: Johnson, Joseph E. (Joseph Esrey), 1906-1990 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Relationship between Carnegie Corporation and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.