Oral history interview with Robertson Dwight Ward, 1968.

Biographical Note

Treasurer, Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Scope and Contents

Invited to become Carnegie Corporation treasurer while employed at American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), 1935; involvement as recording officer of committee to re-evaluate financial management of Carnegie organizations, 1936-1938; departure from Carnegie, 1942. Discussion of the expansion of the Carnegie Joint Investment Office with growth of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA); shifting of Carnegie investments to J.P. Morgan & Co; the Carnegie Corporation’s relationship with the Home Trust Company. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Herbert C. Lee, R.C. Leffingwell, Samuel S. Hall Jr.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations.
• Corporate treasurers--Interviews.
• Endowments--Officials and employees.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Home Trust Company.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Portfolio management.
• Ward, Robertson Dwight, 1905---Interviews.

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