Reminiscences of Flora Macdonald Rhind, 1969

Biographical Note

Foundation officer

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations.
• Education--Research.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• General Education Board.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rhind, Flora Macdonald, 1904-1985--Interviews.
• Rockefeller Foundation.
• Social problems--United States--20th century.
• Southern States.
• Women executives--Interviews.