Oral history interview with Frederick Sheffield, 1967
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Frederick Sheffield : oral history, 1967
Abstract
Invited by Morris Hadley to chair committee regarding the Community Service Society’s School of Social Work, 1944; became Carnegie Corporation trustee, 1955; the transition between John W. Gardner’s and Alan J. Pifer’s Corporation presidencies, 1966-1967. Discussions of the process of selecting Carnegie grantees; lack of diversity on the Carnegie Board of Trustees and the process of selecting board members; the possibility of increasing Carnegie support of social services; the issue of foundations providing financial support to politically controversial programs; providing honorariums to board members; the relationship between foundation presidents and trustees; reflections on his Carnegie chairmanship; future usage of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion at 2 East 91st Street. Impressions of John W. Gardner, Alan J. Pifer, Morris Hadley, Charles Merville Spofford.
Lawyers; Trusts and trustees; Endowments--Officials and employees; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Sheffield, Frederick, 1902-1971; Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002; Carnegie Corporation of New York
Senior Partner, Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Brookfield; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Chairman of the Board, New School for Social Research; Olympic gold medalist rower, 1924 Olympic Games.
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 19, 1967.
Note (Copyright)
Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York, 1987.