Oral history interview with John McFarlane Russell, 1967.

Biographical Note

Foundation president.

Scope and Contents

Carnegie Corporation, 1930-39; journey to New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, 1927; evaluation of educational systems in Dominions; description of Corporation office, officers, and trustees; daily routine; recollections of grants and special programs; Myrdal Study; Commonwealth Program; Harvard, 1940-42; Markle Foundation from 1945. Impressions of Frederick Keppel, Morse Cartwright, Charles Dollard, Florence Anderson, and others.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations.
• Education--Commonwealth countries.
• Endowment of research.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Russell, John M., 1903-1986--Interviews.

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