Reminiscences of James Alfred Perkins : oral history, 1968.

Biographical Note

President, Cornell University; Vice President, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Carnegie Commission on Higher Education; Chairman, President’s Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies; Chairman Emeritus, International Council for Educational Development (ICED).

Scope and Contents

Differences between Carnegie Corporation and Rockefeller Foundation; the civil-military program; the Foundation Library Center; impressions of Charles Dollard, John Gardner, Russell Leffingwell.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Educational fund raising.
• Endowments.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998--Interviews.
• Philanthropy.
• Rockefeller Foundation.

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