Oral history interview with J. George Harrar, 1972-1977

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Name: Harrar, J. George (Jacob George), 1906-1982 (Interviewee); Madow, Pauline (Interviewer); Daum, Raymond L (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with J. George Harrar, 1972-1977
Other Titles: Reminiscences of J. George Harrar, 1972-1977
Abstract: Early life and family; education, Oberlin and Iowa State College; University of Puerto Rico, 1929-30; impressions of University of Minnesota department of plant pathology under Edward M. Freeman and E. C. Stakman; corn smut and wheat rusts; teaching at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Washington State College; reflections on education in United States; origins of Rockefeller Foundation agricultur e program; experiences of Rockefeller research team, Mexico, 1943-46
Collection Name: Rockefeller Foundation oral history collection
Subjects: Executives; Educators; Agriculture--Research; Agriculture--Research--Developing countries; Education--United States; Harrar, J. George (Jacob George), 1906-1982; Rockefeller Foundation
Format: oral histories; sound recordings
Genre: Interviews
Date: 1972-1977

Note (Biographical): Foundation executive
Note (Funding): Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note: Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010; Interviewed by Pauline Madow; Raymond L. Daum
Note (Provenance): J. George Harrar, Gift 1977
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record: 7094647
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-a56k-ch88
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.