Reminiscences of Dorothy Rowden Loemker : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Secretary, American Association for Adult Education; Institute for Adult Education, Columbia University Teachers College; Assistant Director and Secretary, John and Mary R. Markle Foundation.

Scope and Contents

First experiences with Carnegie Corporation at meeting of American Library Association (ALA), 1927; editing work for Carnegie; coming to work as secretary at American Association for Adult Education (AAAE), ongoing adult education studies, 1928-1934; National Advisory Council on Radio in Education (NACRE); working with former AAAE collaborator and Columbia University Teachers College professor Levering Tyson to develop educational radio programming for CBS, 1934-1938; ADULT EDUCATION IN ACTION; work on adult education studies for AAAE; consulting work for ALA; AAAE’s struggles for funding; Morse A. Cartwright’s dismissal to Teachers College; editing ADULT EDUCATION JOURNAL; reflections on Cartwright’s falling out with AAAE, 1939-1951. Impressions of Morse A. Cartwright, Francis Keppel, Levering Tyson, Lyman Bryson.

Subjects

• Adult education.
• American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Cartwright, Morse A. (Morse Adams), 1890-
• Columbia University. Teachers College.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Loemker, Dorothy Rowden--Interviews.
• National Advisory Council on Radio in Education (U.S.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Radio in adult education.