Oral history interview with Frederick Charles McLaughlin, 1964.

Biographical Note

Educator

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education in the Midwest; Teachers College; US Army Air Force; Superintendent of Schools, New York City, hiring problems; Queens College case; Junior Red Cross Director; student volunteer workers in city hospitals; head of Public Education Association: activities, relationship with Board of Education and other organizations, public events. Impressions of Mayors William O'Dwyer, Vincent Impellitteri, and Robert F. Wagner; and Superintendents William Jansen, John Theobald, and Calvin Gross; comments on desegregation, busing, community relations in school issues

Subjects

• Educators--Interviews.
• Hogan, Thomas F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• McLaughlin, Frederick C., 1906-1985--Interviews.
• Municipal officials and employees--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-
• Oral histories (literary works)
• School management and organization.
• Schools--New York (State)--New York.
• Schools--United States.

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