Reminiscences of Margaret E. Mahoney : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Staff Member, Carnegie Corporation of New York; President, Commonwealth Fund; Senior Executive, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Fellow and Trustee, New York Academy of Medicine.

Scope and Contents

Coming to Carnegie Corporation after working on UNESCO projects for U.S. Department of State; initial impressions of Carnegie, 1953; publication of CARNEGIE QUARTERLY following Reese Commission; compiling the Carnegie annual report; expanding Carnegie mailing list; Carnegie dissemination program; administrative changes at Carnegie during the 1950s; the Council on Higher Education in the American Republics (CHEAR); Mahoney’s transition to grantmaking; Carnegie “teaching sets” arts education program; the AMERICAN SHELF book sets program; the American Alumni Council and MOONSHOOTER; THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION; grants to science writers and journalists; Carnegie’s shift in focus to higher education; medical education and meeting with Association of American Medical Colleges, 1954-1967; Impressions of John W. Gardner, Florence Anderson, Alan J. Pifer, James Alfred Perkins.

Subjects

• American Alumni Council.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Council on Higher Education in the American Republics.
• Education--Endowments.
• Endowments--Auditing.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Endowments--Public relations.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Mahoney, Margaret E.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)