Oral history interviews with Robert Dunlop, 1989.

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Oral history interviews with Robert Dunlop, 1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62145995

Dunlop discusses his relations with the Pew family, particularly the four founders of the Pew trusts (J. Howard Pew, J.N. Pew, Jr., Mabel Pew Myrin, and Mary Ethel Pew), others family members associated with those trusts and Sun Oil, and his work with both the trusts and Sun Oil. He focuses on the board of the Glenmede Trust Company, its operation, and its relations with the Glenmede Corporation, Sun Oil, Oryx, and the Account of Four. He further talks about the succession agreement and how the Glenmede board changed as the founders died. He also discusses the relations between the investment and grantmaking divisions of the Glenmede Trust Company.

Sound recordings: 11 sound cassettes (13 hr., 5 min.) : analog.Transcript with written changes: 488 leaves ; 28 cm.

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