Oral history interview with Robert Hoppock, 1968
Oral history interview with Robert Hoppock, 1968
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- Name
- Hoppock, Robert, 1901-1995 (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Robert Hoppock, 1968
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Robert Hoppock : oral history, 1968
- Abstract
- Field Secretary of National Vocational Guidance Association, 1930; termination at NVGA and first meeting with Frederick P. Keppel; Keppel’s request to Morse A. Cartwright of American Association for Adult Education to provide financial support for Hoppock, 1931; creation of National Occupational Conference, 1932-1933; creating budgets for NOC; relation of NOC to AAAE; creation of Council of Guidanc e and Personnel Associations; occupational studies; readability testing with New Jersey high school students and publication of results in OCCUPATIONS, 1936; OCCUPATIONAL ABSTRACTS; OCCUPATIONAL INDEX; grants given by Carnegie Corporation based on advice of NOC; dissolution of NOC, 1939; Hoppock’s continued publication of OCCUPATIONAL ABSTRACTS and OCCUPATIONAL INDEX under Occupational Index, Inc; subsequent work at NYU. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Morse A. Cartwright, Edwin Augustus Lee, Franklin J. Keller.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Endowments--Officials and employees; Vocational guidance; Vocational education; Occupations; Education; Hoppock, Robert, 1901-1995; Carnegie Corporation of New York; National Vocational Guidance Association; National Occupational Conference (U.S.); American Association for Adult and Continuing Education; Steinhardt School of Education
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 53 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Professor of Counselor Education, New York University; National Occupational Conference; National Vocational Guidance Association.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on October 12, 1968.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7521510
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-x656-v944
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.