Reminiscences of Spurgeon Milton Keeny, 1980
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- Name
- Keeny, S. M. (Spurgeon Milton), 1893-1988 (Interviewee)
- Jessup, Frederick Peterson, 1920-2005 (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Spurgeon Milton Keeny, 1980
- Abstract
- Family background, early life; Gettysburg College, 1910-14; Rhodes Scholar, 1916-18; civilian officer YMCA, World War I, in Mesopotamia; YMCA relief and refugee placement officer, Soviet Union, Esthonia, Poland, 1918-21; marriage; American Relief Administration, Moscow, 1922-24; social and educational work, National Council of YMCA's, 1924-42; impressions of New York City; member and chief of Unite d Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration mission, Italy, 1944-47: relief and reconstruction programs, resettlement of displaced persons and prisoners of war; liquidation of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration funds and establishment of food and drug supply systems, family planning programs, programs to control and eradicate yaws, tuberculosis, cholera and malaria; Asia Representative, Population Council, 1963-76: family planning programs in Taiwan, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore; impressions Ivan Pavlov, Herbert H. Lehman, Fiorello LaGuardia, Danny Kaye
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Public health; Birth control; International relief; Developing countries Rehabilitation; Keeny, S. M. (Spurgeon Milton), 1893-1988; YMCA of the USA; UNICEF
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1980
- Note (Biographical)
- United Nations official; international relief administrator
- Note
- Interviewed by Frederick Peterson Jessup
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15308495
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-fkh3-jg54
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.