Oral history interview with J. George Harrar, 1972-1977

Biographical Note

Foundation executive

Scope and Contents

Early life and family; education, Oberlin and Iowa State College; University of Puerto Rico, 1929-30; impressions of University of Minnesota department of plant pathology under Edward M. Freeman and E. C. Stakman; corn smut and wheat rusts; teaching at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Washington State College; reflections on education in United States; origins of Rockefeller Foundation agriculture program; experiences of Rockefeller research team, Mexico, 1943-46

Subjects

• Agriculture--Research--Developing countries.
• Agriculture--Research.
• Daum, Raymond L., interviewer.
• Education--United States.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Harrar, J. George (Jacob George), 1906-1982--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Madow, Pauline, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rockefeller Foundation.