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...Says Nickerson: "It is important for the Corporation not to meddle, not to mess around with things like administrative policy and curriculum. What it amounts to is being useful without being known...
When Albert L. Nickerson graduated from Harvard in the pits of the Depression in 1933, his studies in French literature didn't do him much good. Like so many others bitten by an economic blight the Ivy League wasn't immune to, Nickerson needed a job. He contacted the newly-established National Recovery Administration and was given work as a second-shift man in a Mobil gas station in Brookline, pumping gas and greasing chassis for $18.75 a week...
Still a director of Mobil, Nickerson's resume reads like a textbook example of an industrial titan. He has been on the board of directors of six corporations and banks, the executive committee of the conservative National Alliance of Businessmen and the American Petroleum Institute. He has been chairman of the advisory committees of the U.S. Department of Commerce and of the Federal Reserve Board of New York. He is a trustee of Rockefeller University and the American Museum of Natural History, and a member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. And since 1965, he has been a Fellow...
...Nickerson was not born into wealth. His grandfather had been a successful businessman, but was destroyed in the Panic of 1893, and died as a result of it. In his richer days, he had built a castle in Dedham modeled on one he had seen on the Rhine in Germany...
...after a steady financial downslide, the family was forced to sell the castle. It became the Noble and Greenough School, the middle-level prep school where Nickerson finished off his high school education...