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1. Oral history interview with Vincent A. Mai, 2012

Mai, Vincent A
  • Name: Mai, Vincent A (Interviewee)
  • Format: oral histories
  • Date: 2012
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 3
  • Abstract: Election to the Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees in 1994; shared similar interests with Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Corporation: poverty, income inequality, individualism, responsibility of upper class, early childhood education, Af rica; current involvement with Children's Television Workshop; influences: James A. Johnson, David A. Hamburg, Newton N. Minnow, Rockefeller family, John C. Whitehead, Sam Nunn, Laurence Alan "Larry" Tisch, David F. Swensen, Martin L. Leibowitz, D. Ellen Shuman, Geoffrey T. Boisi, Geraldine P. Mannion, Admiral William A. Owens, Thomas H. Kean; memories of Carnegie Corporation Pocantico retreat in 1995; membership on search committee that found Vartan Gregorian; travel to South Africa with Vartan Gregorian; role and dynamics of the Carnegie Corporation Investment Committee; management of the Carnegie endowment before and after the financial crisis of 2008; differences in leadership and interests of David Hamburg and Vartan Gregorian.
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2. Oral history interview with Lloyd N. Morrisett, 1999

Morrisett, Lloyd, 1929-
  • Name: Morrisett, Lloyd, 1929- (Interviewee)
  • Format: oral histories
  • Date: 1999
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
  • Abstract: Education: University of California at Los Angeles, undergraduate studies, psychology; Yale University, Ph.D., psychology; University of California at Berkeley: professor, psychology, 1956-1958; association with Carnegie Corporation, 1959-1969: execut ive assistant, promotion to vice president; philosophy of communications technology in early childhood education: children's television programming, development of Sesame Street, cooperation with Ford Foundation, Office of Education; president, John and Mary Markle Foundation, 1969; chairman, Children's Television Workshop, 1969-present; role of private philanthropy in American life; reminiscences of colleagues
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3. Oral history interview with Eli N. Evans, 1999

Evans, Eli N
  • Name: Evans, Eli N (Interviewee)
  • Format: oral histories
  • Date: 1999
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
  • Abstract: Born, Durham, North Carolina; family background: Jewish immigrant grandfather, son of E.J. Evans, mayor of Durham 1950-1963, Zionist upbringing; education: University of North Carolina, B.A., Yale Law School J.D.; early professional experience: speec h writer for governor Terry Sanford, the Lyndon B. Johnson campaign 1964, the Barry M. Goldwater campaign; White House staff of resident White House intellectual Eric F. Goldman, rejoined Terry Sanford as staff director of the Future of American States, a Carnegie Corporation of New York [Carnegie] funded enterprise; senior program director of the Carnegie Corporation 1967-1977; president of Charles H. Revson Foundation 1977-2003; author of The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South; discussion of Carnegie presidents Frank Keppel, John Gardner, Alan Pifer, David A. Hamburg; activities at the Carnegie Corporation: funding of projects in favor of the civil rights movement, Children's Television Workshop, Israeli-Palestinian Sesame Street, Children's Defense Fund; reflections on the limits of Carnegie, philosophy of philanthropy, states as engines of experimentation, public library system, art of grant-making, role of venture philanthropists
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4. Oral history interview with Joan Ganz Cooney 1998

Cooney, Joan Ganz
  • Name: Cooney, Joan Ganz (Interviewee)
  • Format: oral histories
  • Date: 1998
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
  • Abstract: Early childhood and education: Phoenix, Arizona; influence of parochial schooling on philanthropic values; Dominican College of San Rafael, University of Arizona at Tucson, degree in early childhood education; desire to work in television, move to Ne w York City: publicity work for soap operas and U.S. Steel Corporation; volunteer for Partisan Review; work for Public Broadcasting Service [PBS] Channel Thirteen: producer of cultural and political debates; work for weekly show Court of Reason; U.S. policy on Cuba, civil rights, communism, education for young children, documentaries, winning Emmy for documentary Poverty, Anti-Poverty and the Poor; funding problems at Channel Thirteen; interest in potential power of educational and public television; research on affective versus cognitive learning styles and impact on creation of television shows for children; colleagueship with Lloyd Morrisett; Carnegie Corporation of New York [Carnegie] funding of 1966 three-month study of cognitive development, influence of psychologist Samuel Rabinowitz's research on how infants learn through sight; Children's Television Workshop: Sesame Street proposal, support from government, positive reception from Carnegie and the Ford Foundation, role of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in targeting middle-class and disadvantaged children, efforts to gain nationwide audience; work with Jim Henson with puppets and Joe Raposo with music, status as semi-autonomous arm of National Educational Television; influence of Head Start, work with Educational Testing Service on curriculum; changing standards in television; creation of Non-Broadcast Materials Division for income, end of government monetary support in early eighties, expansion of programs to other countries.
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5. 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