Oral history interview with Ruth Glenn and C. Lee Moyer, 1990.

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Oral history interview with Ruth Glenn and C. Lee Moyer, 1990.

Glenn and Moyer recollect the Pews of the generation of the trusts' founders (J. Howard Pew, J.N. Pew, Jr., Mary Ethel Pew, and Mabel Pew Myrin) and the next generation, especially Alberta Pew Baker, her husband David Baker, and Jno. G. "Jack" Pew. They recall their visits to Glenmede, the Pew family home in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. They also discuss the Pews' support of Lankenau Hospital, Jefferson Medical College, and the Institute for Cancer Research (Fox Chase).

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (1 hr.) : analog.Transcript with written changes: 54 leaves ; 28 cm.Edited transcript: 55 leaves ; 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7809997

Pew Charitable Trusts Library

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Pew, John G., 1902-1982

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Myrin, Mabel Pew, 1889-1972.

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Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971

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A private trust company and successor to the Pew Memorial Foundation, the Glenmede Trust Company was chartered in 1956 to administer three Pew family trusts. By the mid-1980s Glenmede's dual identity, as both for-profit financial management company and not-for-profit philanthropic institution, proved unwieldy. In 1987 the not-for-profit activities were spun off as The Pew Charitable Trusts, thereby establishing an identity separate from the the Glenmede Trust Company. J. Howard Pew served on the...

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Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Pew, Joseph N. (Joseph Newton), 1886-1963

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Cornell University Class of 1908. From the description of Joseph Newton Pew papers, 1924 and undated. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073424 Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. (1886-1963) was the youngest son of Joseph Newton Pew, Sr., the founder of the Sun Company. He began working for the Sun Company in 1908 after graduating from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering. At his father's death in 1912, J.N. Pew, Jr. was elected vice president of S...

Jefferson Medical College

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Moyer, C. Lee, 1906-1995

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Gardner, Joel R.

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Lankenau Hospital

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Baker, David W., 1916-1999.

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Moyer, Dorothy Glenn.

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Pew, Mary Ethel, 1884-1979.

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Glenn, Ruth, 1909-1997

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Ruth Glenn was born in 1909 in Mercer, Pennsylvania. She had one older sister, Dorothy, and one older brother. Her father, John Albin Glenn, was a dairy farmer and a cousin of Joseph N. Pew, Sr. She graduated from Grove City College and the University of Pittsburgh (personnel and industrial relations). After teaching for some time in western Pennsylvania, she joined the personnel department of the Sun Oil Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1957 she joined the Glenmede Trust C...