Reminiscences of Robert Hoppock : oral history, 1968.

Biographical Note

Professor of Counselor Education, New York University; National Occupational Conference; National Vocational Guidance Association.

Scope and Contents

Field Secretary of National Vocational Guidance Association, 1930; termination at NVGA and first meeting with Frederick P. Keppel; Keppel’s request to Morse A. Cartwright of American Association for Adult Education to provide financial support for Hoppock, 1931; creation of National Occupational Conference, 1932-1933; creating budgets for NOC; relation of NOC to AAAE; creation of Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations; occupational studies; readability testing with New Jersey high school students and publication of results in OCCUPATIONS, 1936; OCCUPATIONAL ABSTRACTS; OCCUPATIONAL INDEX; grants given by Carnegie Corporation based on advice of NOC; dissolution of NOC, 1939; Hoppock’s continued publication of OCCUPATIONAL ABSTRACTS and OCCUPATIONAL INDEX under Occupational Index, Inc; subsequent work at NYU. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Morse A. Cartwright, Edwin Augustus Lee, Franklin J. Keller.

Subjects

• American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Education.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Hoppock, Robert, 1901-1995--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• National Occupational Conference (U.S.)
• National Vocational Guidance Association.
• Occupations.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Steinhardt School of Education.
• Vocational education.
• Vocational guidance.