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61. 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.
62. Oral history interview with Roberta M. Capers, 1967
Capers, Roberta M
- Name: Capers, Roberta M (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Arts adviser for Carnegie Corporation, 1926-34; studies in Europe, 1925-26, College arts sets, arts fellowships; Metropolitan Museum; American Federation of Arts; museum programs; chairman of Arts Department, Tulane College. Impressions of Frederick K eppel, Morse Cartwright, Robert Lester, and other Corporation officials.
63. Oral history interview with Robertson Dwight Ward, 1968
Ward, Robertson Dwight, 1905-
- Name: Ward, Robertson Dwight, 1905- (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Invited to become Carnegie Corporation treasurer while employed at American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), 1935; involvement as recording officer of committee to re-evaluate financial management of Carnegie organizations, 1936-1938; departure from Carnegie, 1942. Discussion of the expansion of the Carnegie Joint Investment Office with growth of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA); shifting of Carnegie investments to J.P. Morgan & Co; the Carnegie Corporation’s relationship with the Home Trust Company. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Herbert C. Lee, R.C. Leffingwell, Samuel S. Hall Jr.
64. 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.
65. Oral history interview with Stephen Henry Stackpole, 1967
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.
66. Oral history interview with Talcott Parsons, 1967
Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979
- Name: Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Initial involvement with Carnegie Corporation during establishment of Depart of Social Relations at Harvard University; 1944-1945; grants for Center for Behavioral Science; Ford Foundation grants; establishment of Russian Research Center, 1948; contr oversy surrounding Clyde Kluckhohn and Air Force consultantship; TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF ACTION, 1951; grants for individual work from Carnegie and Ford Foundation, 1952-1967; thoughts on the Social Science Research Council (SSRC); Harvard under James Bryant Conant and Paul Herman Buck; Carnegie and its grantmaking policies. Impressions of Clyde Kluckhohn, Paul Herman Buck, Samuel A. Stouffer, Charles Dollard.
67. Oral history interview with Thomas Raymond McConnell, 1967
McConnell, T. R. (Thomas Raymond), 1901-1989
- Name: McConnell, T. R. (Thomas Raymond), 1901-1989 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Academic career: University of Minnesota, University of Buffalo, Berkeley; chairmanship of Carnegie-funded programs of study in higher education: 1949-50, Laboratory for Research in Social Relations, 1948 comparative study of British universities, fea sibility study of undergraduate advance placement examinations, 1955 THE DIVERSIFICATION OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION, 1954-66 RESTUDY OF NEEDS OF CALIFORNIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION; opinions on Carnegie grant management, Center for Study of Higher Education, Berkeley student activism, Free Speech movement 1960s.
68. Oral history interview with Trevor Owen Lloyd, 1968
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.
69. Oral history interview with Vannevar Bush, 1967
Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974
- Name: Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Discussion of Carnegie Institution of Washington and Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1939-1955.
70. Oral history interview with Walter Adams, 1968
Adams, Walter, 1906-1975
- Name: Adams, Walter, 1906-1975 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1968
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Early involvement with Carnegie Corporation as part of efforts to relocate scholars from Nazi Germany and Austria, 1933-1938; involvement with Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas, 1943-1946; post-war development of universities in A frica and Caribbean under Carnegie Corporation's British Dominions and Colonies Fund; establishment of Institute of Education at University of East Africa (now Makerere University); library school at University of Ibadan; creation of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica; touring American universities with Sally Chilvers of Colonial Social Research Council; thoughts on land-grant universities, adult education, and the distinctions between American and British education. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Whitney H. Shepardson, Stephen Henry Stackpole.
71. 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.
72. 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.
73. Oral history interview with William Worthington Marvel, 1967
Marvel, William Worthington, 1920-1978
- Name: Marvel, William Worthington, 1920-1978 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Changes in focus of the Corporation; area studies versus comparative studies; relationship of the government and foundations; Council on Higher Education in the American Republics; University Service Center, Hong Kong.
74. Oral history with Guion Griffis Johnson, 1967
Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989
- Name: Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Relationship with Carnegie Corporation and Gunnar Myrdal during study which resulted in AN AMERICAN DILEMMA.
75. Reminiscences of Margaret E. Mahoney : 1967
Mahoney, Margaret E
- Name: Mahoney, Margaret E (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Abstract: Coming to Carnegie Corporation after working on UNESCO projects for U.S. Department of State; initial impressions of Carnegie, 1953; publication of CARNEGIE QUARTERLY following Reese Commission; compiling the Carnegie annual report; expanding Carnegie mailing list; Carnegie dissemination program; administrative changes at Carnegie during the 1950s; the Council on Higher Education in the American Republics (CHEAR); Mahoney's transition to grantmaking; Carnegie "teaching sets" arts education program; the AMERICAN SHELF book sets program; the American Alumni Council and MOONSHOOTER; THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION; grants to science writers and journalists; Carnegie's shift in focus to higher education; medical education and meeting with American Association of Medical Colleges, 1954-1967; Impressions of John W. Gardner, Florence Anderson, Alan J. Pifer, James Alfred Perkins.