Oral history interview with Thomas A. Spragens, 1982 Nov.

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Oral history interview with Thomas A. Spragens, 1982 Nov.

Oral history interview conducted with Thomas A. Spragens, president of Centre College, Danville, Ky., from 1957 to 1981.

Sound recordings : 4 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min. each)Transcript : 55 leaves ; 30 cm.Transcript : 55 leaves : digital, PDF file

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SNAC Resource ID: 7537561

Centre College, Grace Doherty Library

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Thomas A. Spragens was born on April 25, 1917, in Lebanon, Ky. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1938, he worked in the Kentucky Department of Revenue. From 1940 to 1945, he served in the federal government, including senior analyst at the Bureau of the Budget and Assistant Chief of Food Allocations in the wartime Foreign Economic Administration. In the summer of 1946, Spragens accepted a position to assist the president of Stanford University in managing development problems c...