Oral history interview with Isabelle Neilson 1967
Oral history interview with Isabelle Neilson 1967
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- Name
- Neilson, Isabelle (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Isabelle Neilson 1967
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Isabelle Neilson : oral history, 1967
- Abstract
- Work as secretary to Alfred Zantzinger Reed during his research on legal education at Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; work in Carnegie Cooperative Investment Office, 1936-1939; coming to work at investment office of Carnegie Corporation; taking business courses at New York University; transferring to role as Secretary to the President under Devereux C. Josephs; decision to purs ue secretarial work in lieu of further exploring investments; establishment of Russian Research Center at Harvard University; 1939-1948; working as secretary to Columbia University President Frank D. Fackenthal; Charles Dollard, 1948-1955; secretary to John W. Gardner; Carnegie’s dealings with the New York Public Library, 1955-1967. Impressions of D.C. Josephs, Herbert C. Lee, Charles Dollard, Frank Diehl Fackenthal.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Endowments--Officials and employees; Neilson, Isabelle; Josephs, D. C. (Devereux Colt), 1893-1977; Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Harvard University. Russian Research Center
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1967
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 43 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Secretary to the President, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- 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 May 10, 1967.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7522520
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-jarw-0278
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.