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...Among its founding members: ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson, ex-World Bank President Eugene Black, Educator James Bryant Conant, ex-Treasury Secretary (under Kennedy and Johnson) C. Douglas Dillon, ex-Defense Secretary (under Eisenhower) Thomas S. Gates, Princeton President Robert F. Goheen, M.I.T. Chairman James R. Killian Jr., ex-Ambassadors John J. McCloy and Robert D. Murphy, Banker David Rockefeller...
Unpaid Faculty. Such intellectuals as Harvard's President Emeritus James B. Conant, Historians Henry Steele Commager and Richard Hofstadter, Anthropologist Margaret Mead and Economist Walt W. Rostow have voluntarily served on the Salzburg faculty without pay. Seminar topics are U.S. art and culture, the political, economic and social structure, education, and-every year without fail-"American Law and Legal Institutions...
Under him, Carnegie has awarded grants worth more than $100 million, principally for educational research, which has stimulated improvements in everything from business schools to junior colleges. Gardner underwrote ex-Harvard President Dr. James Conant's studies of shortcomings in U.S. public schools and in teacher education. He is widely known in the U.S. educational establishment. The board of trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching includes the presidents of major American universities. And it is no secret that Gardner has long exerted influences in the selection of U.S. college presidents...
...More in evidence at the Johnson meeting was a new breed of outside innovators, such as Carnegie Corp. President John Gardner who served as chairman; U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel, who does not even hold a graduate degree; and a host of university-oriented reformers, ranging from James B. Conant to President John H. Fischer of Columbia University's Teachers College...
...Edwin Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Mathematics and Education