Oral history interview with Marion Faldet [electronic resource], 1982.

Biographical Note

Foundation officer; interviewee married Burton Faldet.

Scope and Contents

Parents' immigration from Canada; childhood and education; Massachusetts; Boston University, A.A., 1944; University of Chicago M.B.A., 1977; secretary to Dana Cotton, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1945-1962; administrative assistant to Calvin Gross, superintendent, New York City public schools: politics in school system; working relationship with Lyle Spencer; Spencer Foundation: goals, comparison with other foundations, plans for oral history project; commuter marriage; importance of own career.

Subjects

• Education.
• Endowment of research.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Faldet, Marion, 1924---Interviews.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.
• Interviews
• Oral histories
• Schools--New York (State)--New York.
• Spencer, Lyle Manley, 1911-1968.
• Spencer Foundation.
• Women--Employment.