Name
Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998 (Interviewee)
Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with James Alfred Perkins, 1968
Other Titles
Reminiscences of James Alfred Perkins : oral history, 1968
Abstract
Differences between Carnegie Corporation and Rockefeller Foundation; the civil-military program; the Foundation Library Center; impressions of Charles Dollard, John Gardner, Russell Leffingwell.
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
Subjects
Executives; Endowments; Educational fund raising; Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Rockefeller Foundation
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1968
Physical Description
sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 71 pages
Note (Biographical)
President, Cornell University; Vice President, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Carnegie Commission on Higher Education; Chairman, President’s Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies; Chairman Emeritus, International Council for Educ ational Development (ICED).
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 September 20, 1967 and May 27, 1968.
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
7522621
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-wdaf-wm50
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.