Morningside Area Alliance records, 1947-1992 - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Barnard College

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Barnard College was given its first provisional charter by the Regents of the State of New York on Aug. 8, 1889. From the description of Barnard College charters and statutes, 1934-1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 275960020 Junior Month was a summer project in sociological theory and practice founded in 1917 and supervised by the Charity Organization Society of New York City. In a one month period juniors from twelve eastern colleges a...

Moses, Robert, 1888-1981

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Robert Moses (1888-1981) was a public official in New York from 1919 to the mid-1970s. He held many offices, of which the most notable among them were: President, Long Island State Park Commission; Chairman, New York State Council of Parks; Commissioner, New York City Department of Parks; New York City Planning Commissioner and Construction Coordinator; and Chairman, New York State Power and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authorities. He was responsible for the construction of many major public pr...

Kirk, Grayson L. (Grayson Louis), 1903-1997

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Professor of Government 1943-1948, Provost 1949-1950 and President 1953-1968, Columbia University. From the guide to the Grayson Louis Kirk Papers, 1958-1984., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Grayson Kirk, American international relations scholar and president of Columbia University from 1953 to 1968. From the description of Grayson Kirk manuscript material : 2 items, 1952-1953. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record...

Morningsider

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Collecting area: Materials dealing with all aspects of Jewish life. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524648 The Jewish Theological Seminary of America moved into its new campus at 3080 Broadway in the Morningside Heights section of New York City in 1930. The complex was designed by the architectural firm Gehron and Ross, with David Levy, Associate Architect. The construction of the buildings was funded by donations from Louis ...

Rockefeller, David, 1915-2017

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David Rockefeller (born June 12, 1915, New York City – died March 20, 2017, Pocantico Hills, New York) was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, and family patriarch from July 2004 until his death in March 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and a grandson of John D. Rockef...

Remedco

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund was established in 1940 by John D. 3rd, Nelson A., Laurance S., Winthrop and David Rockefeller. It makes grants to local, national, and international philanthropic organizations that depend on the general public for funds. The program also includes support for, and in some cases direct operation of, experimental or new undertakings. From the description of Archives, 1941-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154270091 ...

Morningside Heights, Inc.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Morningside Area Alliance was founded as Morningside Heights Inc. in 1947, out of the recommendations of two Columbia University-instituted committees-acting University President Frank D. Fackenthal's Morningside Heights Development Committee, and the University’s extant Committee on Research in Urban Land Use and Housing. Together the committees concluded that any work toward development, redevelopment, and institutional expansion in Morningside Heights would be w...

Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968

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University administrator. From the description of Reminiscences of Frank Diehl Fackenthal : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733041 ...