Oral history interviews of the Council on Foundations Oral History Project, 1991-1992.

Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory

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Chance, Ruth Clouse

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Goheen, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1919-2008

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Robert F. Goheen was the president of Princeton University from July 1957 until March 1971. Robert Francis (Bob) Goheen was born in India in August 1919, where his father was a Presbyterian medical missionary. He lived in India until he was fifteen, when he enrolled in the Lawrenceville School, graduating two years later. He entered Princeton University as a member of the class of 1940, and graduated with Highest Honors in the Humanities Program. After one year of gradua...

Lichtenberg, Naomi A.,

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Ylvisaker, Paul N.

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Paul N. Ylvisaker was a noted city planner, government official, foundation executive, and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1972-1982. He was known for his efforts in addressing urban issues, for philanthropy, and for committing the Harvard Graduate School of Education to a public service mission. From the description of Papers of Paul N. Ylvisaker, 1939-1992. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064160 Paul N. Ylvisaker, a native of St. Paul, Min...

Shannon, James P., 1921-2003

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James P. Shannon was born on February 16, 1921 in South St. Paul, Minnesota to Patrick Joseph Shannon and Mary Alice McAuliff Foxley Shannon. He was the youngest of 6 children in a large Irish Catholic family. Joseph Shannon was born in Ireland, and was the owner of Shannon Cattle Company in South St. Paul. Mary Alice was first married to Fred Foxley, and was widowed with four small children prior to marrying Joseph Shannon and having two children with him, James and his older siste...

Troyer, Thomas A., 1933-

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Pifer, Alan J.

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Foundation executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Alan Pifer : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122528503 Philanthropist. From the description of Reminiscences of Alan J. Pifer : oral history, 1997-1998. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269255314 ...

Cuninggim, Merrimon, 1911-1995

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Augustus Merrimon Cuninggim was born in 1911 to Jesse Lee & Maud Merrimon Cuninggim in Wesley Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where his father was a professor in the Biblical Studies Department. Cuninggim received his B.A. from Vanderbilt in 1931. He received his M.A. from Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, attended Oxford University in 1933 where he received a B.A., M.A., and Diploma in Theology. He became an intercollegiate tennis champion in Britain, held national ra...

Wadsworth, Homer C., 1913-1994

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Freeman, David F.

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Council on Foundations

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The Council on Foundations, located in Washington, D.C., was incorporated in 1957 in the State of New York for the purpose of providing consultative services to foundations in the U.S. and Canada. Substantial grants in 1958 from the Rockefeller Foundation and in 1960 from the Ford Foundation allowed the Council to begin full-time operation. From the description of Council on Foundations records, 1953-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122617480 ...

Doermann, Humphrey

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