Oral history interviews with Ruth Parker, 1989.

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Oral history interviews with Ruth Parker, 1989.

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Parker recalls her years with the Glenmede Trust Company, particularly her work in grantmaking. She discusses the deaths of the four founding Pew family members, the changes in the tax law and increase in the trusts' endowments in the early 1970s, the beginnings of grantmaking in conservation and the environment in the 1970s, and the growth in the staff and increasing sophistication in grantmaking in the 1970s and 1980s.

Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (143 min.) : analog.Transcript with written changes: 59, 42 leaves ; 28 cm.Edited transcript: 102 leaves ; 28 cm.

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