Stone, Donald Crawford, 1903-....

Donald Stone was an eminent U. S. statesman and international policy advisor, who gained notoriety for applying the scientific management principles of private enterprise to government institutions, and earned respect through a commitment to reasonable and accountable government. His career as a public servant spanned the Depression and WWII eras, shaping domestic and foreign policy under the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Stone's service with the State Department included formatting procedures for the Public Works Administration and planning and implementing the Works Progress Administration. He helped draft the original charters of the United Nations and the United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and his efforts were instrumental in the success of the Marshall Plan in rebuilding Europe after the Second World War. Donald Crawford Stone was born in Cleveland, Ohio on June 17, 1903. He received a B. A. from Colgate University in 1925, an M. S. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in 1926, and post-graduate degrees from the University of Cincinnati and Columbia. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL. D.) from George Williams College in 1953, and again from Colgate in 1960. Stone began his career in public service conducting research studies for the City of Cincinnati, and acted as director of research for the International City Managers Association at the University of Chicago from 1930-933. In 1933, Stone became a founding partner of the private consulting firm Public Administration Service (PAS), a long-standing corporation providing policy analysis and implementation strategies for municipal, state, and national governments, worldwide. In the mid-1930s, Stone guided the merger of formerly separate organizations to form the American Public Works Administration, and became its first executive director. In 1939, Stone resigned from the board of PAS (though remained an honorary trustee his whole life) to accept the position of Assistant Director in Charge of Administrative Management at the Bureau of the Budget in the U.S. State Department (1939-1948), in the Executive Office of the President. In that capacity, he concomitantly served as a member of the United Nations' Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (1945-1949), and as a delegate to the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO (1946-1950). In April 1948, President Truman created the Economic Cooperation Administration to oversee the disbursement of U.S. funds under the Marshall Plan, and Donald Stone was nominated as the ECA's first Director of Administration, a post he continued to hold through that body's transformation into the Mutual Security Agency in 1951, and again into the Foreign Operations Administration in 1953. Stone served as president of Springfield College in Massachusetts before building the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh in 1957, as Dean emeritus, a post he held until 1968. He served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University's H. J. Heinz Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration from 1975 until his retirement in 1992. Stone was a founding member of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), and the Society for International Development, as well as a voluntary board advisor to the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He participated on scores of national and international government advisory panels throughout his career and authored dozens of books and pamphlets on public policy and administration. Donald C. Stone died at the age of 92 on October 19, 1995, leaving his wife, Alice Kathryn (nee Biermann), and four children, Nancy, Alice, Elizabeth, and Donald Crawford Stone, Jr.

From the description of Papers of Donald C. Stone relating to the United Nations, 1945-1949. (University of Pittsburgh). WorldCat record id: 30621424

Director of the Public Administration Service Consulting and Research Division.

From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243848809