Reminiscences of David A. Dittman : oral history, 2006.

Biographical Note

Dean, Cornell University Hotel School.

Scope and Contents

Personal background: family history, childhood in Ohio, education, military service, career in academia (accounting); Cornell University School of Hotel Administration: deanship, higher education administration, funding, fund-raising, alumni affairs, financial problems, relationship with Atlantic Philanthropies, Atlantic Philanthropies-funded programs; Interactions: James Clark, Charles F. Feeney, Frank H. T. Rhodes, James W. Spencer, Raymond L. Handlan.

Subjects

• Atlantic Philanthropies (Organization)
• Cornell University. School of Hotel Administration.
• Deans (Education)--Interviews.
• Dittman, David A.--Interviews.
• Educational fund raising.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Starecheski, Amy, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

Copyright held by: The Trustees of Columbia University of the City of New York and The Atlantic Philanthropies, 2007.