Reminiscences of Francis Keppel : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Chief Executive Officer, General Learning Corporation; Vice Chair, New York City Board of Higher Education; Board of Overseers, Harvard; Founding Chairman, Lincoln Center Institute; Director, Education Policy Program, Aspen Institute.

Scope and Contents

Election of Francis’ father Frederick P. Keppel as President of Carnegie Corporation, 1923; childhood impressions of Carnegie from father’s work; sense of rivalry between Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundation; Frederick Keppel’s interests in arts and adult education; creation of American Association for Adult Education; music grant programs; involvement of Frederick and Francis Keppel in WWII government initiatives; Office of Scientific Research and Development; Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare & Recreation; American Council on Learned Societies Asian language instruction program, 1923-1947; Francis Keppel appointed Dean of Harvard University Graduate School of Education, 1948; Carnegie endowments to Harvard; Harvard under President James Bryant Conant; reforms to School of Education, 1948-1962; thoughts on the function of charitable foundations. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, James Bryant Conant, Frederick Osborn, Charles Dollard.

Subjects

• American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Education--Research.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Harvard University. Graduate School of Education.
• Interviews.
• Keppel, Francis, 1916-1990--Interviews.
• Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States. Joint Army & Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation.

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