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1. Oral history interview with Alan J. Pifer 1997-1998
Pifer, Alan J
- Name: Pifer, Alan J (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1997-1998
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Alan Jay Parrish Pifer, b. 1921. Childhood in Massachusetts; education : Groton School, Harvard University, 1940-1941, 1945-1947, B.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge University 1947-1948; executive secretary, Fulbright Commission, London, England, 1948- 1953; Carnegie Corporation: management of African program, 1953-1963, vice president, 1963-1965, acting president, 1965-1967,president 1967-1984; presidential initiatives: inclusion of women and minorities in the foundation, educational television, creation of Second Carnegie Inquiry on Poverty in Southern Africa, civil rights interests, Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education; reflections on foundation work: scope of grant-making, program budgeting and funding, hiring and appointments, relationship with staff, trustees and other foundations, accountability and evaluation, risk-taking, responsibility to public, influence of Carnegie family; public profile; personal commitment to political transformation in Southern Africa; post-Carnegie career: evolving view of foundations, advisory role, work on social issues of elderly and minorities; reminiscences of colleagues.
2. Oral history interview with Barbara D. Finberg, 1998
Finberg, Barbara D
- Name: Finberg, Barbara D (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1998
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood: born 1929, Pueblo, Colorado; raised in a small town, parents' interest in education, conscious of limited economic circumstances; education: importance of high school education, Stanford University, B.A., International Relations, Rotary Fo undation Fellowship at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, M.A., Near Eastern History and Politics; career: Washington D.C. State Department internship, Institute of International Education, grant administration, Carnegie Corporation of New York [Carnegie]: editor, program officer, vice president, retirement; challenging traditional expectations of women: discrimination, women in the workforce and childcare, working as a woman at Carnegie; Carnegie programs in child development and education: Lloyd N. Morrisett, conducting research, Carnegie Council on Children, reflections on childhood, development and launch of Sesame Street, Joan Ganz Cooney, experimentation and collaboration, Children's Television Workshop, improving quality of family life; Carnegie atmosphere and recollections of colleagues: Florence Anderson, Margaret Mahoney, Vivien Stewart; Carnegie presidents and transitions: John Gardner, Alan Pifer, David Hamburg, Vartan Gregorian; Carnegie's structure and operations: commissions and task forces, external and internal relations, grantmaking, program budgeting, evaluation, changing and developing public policy, taking risks, relationships with grantees, relationships with other foundations; culture of philanthropy; history of Carnegie Discrepancies exist between digital transcript and synchronized transcript segments in session 11 of interview. Digital transcript corresponds to audio recordings, and synchronized transcript segments correspond to video recordings. Audio recordings inverted sequence of side A and B, and inversion became reflected in transcript
3. Oral history interview with David A. Hamburg 1996-1998
Hamburg, David A., 1925-2019
- Name: Hamburg, David A., 1925-2019 (Interviewee)
- Format: oral histories
- Date: 1996-1998
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Abstract: Childhood: grandson of Latvian Jewish immigrants; education: undergraduate degree, Indiana University, medical degree, Rockefeller University; Michael Reese Hospital: internship in psychiatry, 1947-1948; Yale University: residency training, psychiatry , 1948-1949; Brooke Army Hospital, 1950-1952; Walter Reed Institute, 1952-1953: research on stress-related disorders, burn victims; Stanford University: fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, genetics research, 1957-1961, chairman, Department of Psychology, 1961-1972: development of Behavior Endocrine Genetic Responses to Stress [BEG], primate research with Jane Goodall, Tanzania; Congo hostage crisis, 1975; president, Institute of Medicine, 1975-1980: interest in children's, adolescent's health; World Health Organization [WHO], 1975-1986; professor, Harvard University, 1980-1982: formation of health policy organizations, Early LIfe Working Group; arms control: Pugwash Conference, 1978, development of crisis prevention, Cold War; Gorbachev: first meeting with, coup against; president, Carnegie Corporation, 1982-1997: formation of Starting Points Initiative, Years of Promise, Great Transitions task forces, establishment of the Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, Council on Adolescent Development [CAD], Inquiry into Poverty in Southern Africa; media representation of childcare issues; Carnegie Final Report, 1998; relationships with presidents from Gerald R. Ford to Bill Clinton; reflections on leadership, role of foundations.