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...often up in jet planes. On a recent trip to see how well the University of the Philippines was using an improvement grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Notre Dame's Father Theodore Hesburgh and Michigan State's John Hannah discovered that Princeton's Robert Goheen and Cornell's James Perkins had just left, after checking up on the use of U.S. foreign-aid funds. While there, they met Indiana's ex-president, Herman Wells, back from an advisory mission to Bangkok...
...effect is that the same names keep surfacing in an informal interlocking directorate. Among the chief boards are the National Science Foundation (Hesburgh, Clement, M.I.T.'s Julius Stratton, Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride), the Rockefeller Foundation (Hesburgh, Goheen, Caltech's Lee DuBridge), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Perkins, Goheen, Stratton, Hesburgh, McBride, Minnesota's O. Meredith Wilson, North Carolina's William Friday, U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, Illinois' David Henry), the Institute of International Education (Wilson, Hesburgh, Murphy, McBride, Henry...
These activists are not a formal organization. They are, as one of them describes it, "a group of men who say exactly what they mean, are competent, have a high degree of energy, are internationally minded." They naturally practice what Goheen terms a "non-nefarious collaboration and collusion...
...Robert Goheen, 46, Princeton. A scholarly humanist who stakes out his positions carefully, he is a close friend of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, argues that "a university president is not a political eunuch." A past chairman of the American Council on Education, he is a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Princeton's influential Educational Testing Service. He jumped spectacularly from professor to the presidency...
...training. Buoyed by his smashing reelection, Governor Richard Hughes hopes to get legislative approval of an income tax that will produce $180 million a year, spend $30 million of it on higher education. At the same time, a broadly based citizens' committee headed by Princeton President Robert F. Goheen is generating pressure to get the state cracking on a new system...