Oral history interview with Frederic A. Mosher 1998
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- Name
- Mosher, Fritz (Interviewee)
- Hearing, Brenda (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Frederic A. Mosher 1998
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Frederic A. Mosher : oral history, 1998
- Abstract
- Childhood in Illinois; education: Oberlin College, 1950-1954, B.S. Psychology, University of Michigan and Harvard University, 1954-1959, Ph.D. Social Psychology; Carnegie Corporation: office culture and influence of colleagues, grant administration and review process, program evaluation process, role of trustees, influence of Corporation presidents, career development; foundation work: appropriate areas for support, accountability, elitism, staff control of decision-making, promotion of public awareness; personal project involvement: educational development in African universities, Avoiding Nuclear War program chair, U.S.-Soviet strategic relations, development of American schools, The Youth Project, senior program advisor; post-Carnegie career.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Subjects
- Endowments--Management; Charities--Management; United States--Military relations--Soviet Union; Soviet Union--Military relations--United States; Nuclear disarmament; Mosher, Fritz; Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 313 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Program Officer and Psychologist
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Note
- Interviewed by Brenda Hearing on June 26, July 2, July 22, August 7, October 1, and November 21, 1997 and July 22, 1998.
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- 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.
- Interviewed by Brenda Hearing on June 26, July 2, July 22, August 7, October 1, and November 21, 1997 and July 22, 1998.
- Note (Provenance)
- Frederick A. (Fritz) Mosher, Gift, 1998
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7584941
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-zxjf-pb39
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.