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Those who knew Henry Townley Heald when he was head of New York University say that he was never known to get excited or waste a word. Chancellor Heald was running true to form when he called in his top staffmen one day last June to hear a special announcement. "Gentlemen," said he matter-of-factly, "they've offered me the presidency of the Ford Foundation, and I don't see how anyone in education could turn it down." "That was all there was to it," recalls one of those present. "Here was a man getting the most...
...funds has ever deserved such burning criticism. As a matter of fact, the foundation has come to maturity so rapidly that some academics have begun to wonder whether it might not be in danger of becoming all too conservative. In any case, the fact that it has Henry Heald as president is a significant indication of its development, for few men have won wider respect in business, government and education. An engineer by training and a conservative by temperament, Heald has made an enviable reputation for performing administrative wonders with a minimum of fuss...
From the Ford Foundation, which has spent close to $1 billion in charitable, educational and scientific pursuits, came word last week of a pioneer diplomatic move. President Henry T. Heald announced before a meeting of the Chicago Executives' Club that the foundation will devote $500,000 toward stimulating a cultural interchange between the U.S. and Poland. Aware of the problems involved in dealing with a nation that teeters so warily in the Soviet shadow, Heald said that "recent developments," i.e., the Polish deliverance from Moscow's iron rule, as well as the Eisenhower Administration's tentative foreign...
...Foundation plans-which were approved quietly by the U.S. State Department-call for exchange visits between Poland and the U.S. and West European countries of engineers, social science professionals, architects, educators and students, as well as shipments of books and periodicals to Polish libraries, institutions and individuals. "We know," Heald said, "that activity of an educational or scientific character is not a substitute for the essential security efforts of our Government. But we have the conviction that in the development of international understanding there is a proper and vital role for private institutions, including private philanthropy...
...university not only provides the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a new liberal arts campus open to all faiths; it is also the only college in the area to take in Negroes on the undergraduate level. ¶Appointment of the week: Carroll Vincent Newsom, 52, to succeed Henry T. Heald as president of big (37.000 students) New York University. Carroll Newsom took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, eventually became not only a top mathematics teacher, but a prolific producer of mathematics texts. At 29, he was head of the mathematics department at the University of New Mexico...