Oral history interviews with Thomas Langfitt, 1990.

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Oral history interviews with Thomas Langfitt, 1990.

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Langfitt recalls how he came to know Robert Dunlop and Robert I. Smith and to be named to the board of directors of the Glenmede Trust Company in 1980. He recalls Glenmede board members and staff incumbent during the 1980s. He discusses the relations between the grantmaking and investment staff of Glenmede, and the reorganization that created the Pew Charitable Trusts as an unincorporated division of the Glenmede Trust Company in 1986. He also discusses the creation of the Glenmede Corporation, a holding company for the Glenmede Trust Company and its Pew Charitable Trusts division. He discusses Glenmede's investments in the Sun Oil Company and the Oryx Energy Company as well as the relations among the boards of each. He discusses the development of the trust-initiated projects and other grantmaking activities of the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (2 hr., 50 min.) : analog.Transcript with written changes: 151 leaves ; 28 cm.Edited transcript: 158 leaves ; 28 cm.

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