| Title: |
Reminiscences of Flora Macdonald Rhind
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A112
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Background and education; experience with General Education Board and Rockefeller Foundation, 1933-64: requests received, limitations on grants, procedures in handling, program meetings, docket conferences, trustee meetings, evaluation of programs; responsibilities of Secretary's office, relation with counsel; social science program; fellowships and grants-in-aid; evolution of general education program; Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, Education Policies Commission, American Council on Education, American Youth Commission; development of southern program: Southern Fellowships Fund, Southern Regional Education Board, Southern Education Fund, George Peabody College, state agents for rural schools; European program; congressional investigations, travel in connection with programs; Villa Serbelloni; retirement. Impressions of Raymond Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Beardsley Ruml, George Vincent, Edmund E. Day, Dean Rusk, John Foster Dulles, J. George Harrar, many others.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 1,520 leaves, Tape: 31 reels, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open, certain pages closed until 2010. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1969 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Rhind, Flora Macdonald, 1904-1985
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1904
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| Speaker occupation: |
Foundation officer
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| Age at speaking: |
65
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| Document date: |
1969
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| Interviewer: |
Grossner, Isabel S.
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| Organizations discussed: |
Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; Southern States; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Endowments--Officials and employees; North America; Oral history; Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY; Southern States; United States; Women executives
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Educational research; General Education Board; Rhind, Flora Macdonald, 1904-1985; United States--Social problems--20th century
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0016960-12403
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