Oral history interview with Alice Hoctor, 1967
Oral history interview with Alice Hoctor, 1967
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- Name
- Hoctor, Alice (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Alice Hoctor, 1967
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Alice Hoctor : oral history, 1967
- Abstract
- Studies at Columbia University; early temporary secretarial positions for Carnegie Corporation, 1927-1932; becoming a permanent Carnegie Corporation employee; birth of Hoctor’s first child, 1933-1934; work and salary in the Carnegie investment office; relations between Carnegie Investment and Treasury departments, 1935-1946; merger of investment and treasury departments into Treasury and Investment Office; changes in personnel and administration, 1947-1952; title change to Administrative Assistant, relocation of Carnegie Corporation to new building, 1953-1954; changes in Hoctor’s salary and benefits package over the course of her career; advantages and limitations for women employees at Carnegie. Impressions of Ernest A. Farintosh, James W. Campbell, Herbert C. Lee, Robert A. Franks.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Endowments--Officials and employees; Secretaries; Administrative assistants; Investments; Women employees--Economic conditions; Hoctor, Alice; Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 51 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Assistant to the Treasurer, 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
- 7521501
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-dkmf-2e93
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.