Oral history interview with J. George Harrar, 1972-1977
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- Name
- Harrar, J. George (Jacob George), 1906-1982 (Interviewee)
- Madow, Pauline (Interviewer)
- Daum, Raymond L (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with J. George Harrar, 1972-1977
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of J. George Harrar, 1972-1977
- Abstract
- Early life and family; education, Oberlin and Iowa State College; University of Puerto Rico, 1929-30; impressions of University of Minnesota department of plant pathology under Edward M. Freeman and E. C. Stakman; corn smut and wheat rusts; teaching at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Washington State College; reflections on education in United States; origins of Rockefeller Foundation agricultur e program; experiences of Rockefeller research team, Mexico, 1943-46
- Collection Name
- Rockefeller Foundation oral history collection
- Subjects
- Executives; Educators; Agriculture--Research; Agriculture--Research--Developing countries; Education--United States; Harrar, J. George (Jacob George), 1906-1982; Rockefeller Foundation
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1972-1977
- Note (Biographical)
- Foundation executive
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Pauline Madow; Raymond L. Daum
- Note (Provenance)
- J. George Harrar, Gift 1977
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7094647
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-a56k-ch88
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.