Oral history interview with Lloyd N. Morrisett, 1999

 

Name
Morrisett, Lloyd, 1929- (Interviewee)
Zane, Sharon (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Lloyd N. Morrisett, 1999
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Lloyd N. Morrisett : oral history, 1999
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: executive assistant, promotion to vice president; philosophy of communications technology in early childhood education: children's television programming, d evelopment 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
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
Subjects
Early childhood education; Television and children; Television in education; Educators; Television producers and directors; Creative thinking; Thought and thinking; Morrisett, Lloyd, 1929-; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Children's Television Workshop; Sesame Street (Television program)
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Origin Information
1999
Date
1999
Physical Description
42 pages
Note (Biographical)
Educator; Television producer
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
Interviewed by: Sharon Zane on April 13, 1999 in New York, New York.
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
Note (Provenance)
Gift of: Lloyd N. Morrisett
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
7584936
Also In
Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-541t-bm20
Related URLs
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