Election of Francis’ father Frederick P. Keppel as President of Carnegie Corporation, 1923; childhood impressions of Carnegie from father’s work; sense of rivalry between Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundation; Frederick Keppel’s interests in arts and adult education; creation of American Association for Adult Education; music grant programs; involvement of Frederick and Francis Keppel in WWII governm ent initiatives; Office of Scientific Research and Development; Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare & Recreation; American Council on Learned Societies Asian language instruction program, 1923-1947; Francis Keppel appointed Dean of Harvard University Graduate School of Education, 1948; Carnegie endowments to Harvard; Harvard under President James Bryant Conant; reforms to School of Education, 1948-1962; thoughts on the function of charitable foundations. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, James Bryant Conant, Frederick Osborn, Charles Dollard.
Endowments--Officials and employees; Executives; Education--Research; Keppel, Francis, 1916-1990; Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943; Carnegie Corporation of New York; American Association for Adult and Continuing Education; Harvard University. Graduate School of Education; United States. Joint Army & Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1967
Physical Description
67 pages
Note (Biographical)
Chief Executive Officer, General Learning Corporation; Vice Chair, New York City Board of Higher Education; Board of Overseers, Harvard; Founding Chairman, Lincoln Center Institute; Director, Education Policy Program, Aspen Institute.
Note
Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on June 15, 1967.
Note (Copyright)
Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986.