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Reminiscences of John Kelley Norton
Education, Palo Alto and Stanford University; athletics; 1920 Olympics; early experiences in teaching and educational administration; National Education Association of the United States, 1922-30; Columbia University, 1930-58; Educational Policies Commission; India, 1958-60; analysis of problems, policies, and progress at Teachers College. Impressions of Elwood Cubberley, Lewis Terman, John Dewey, W.H. Kilpatrick, George Strayer, William Carr, and James B. Conant.
James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age
James B. Conant (1893-1978) was one of the titans of mid-20th-century American history, attaining prominence and power in multiple fields. Usually remembered as an educational leader, he was president of Harvard University for two tumultuous decades, from the Depression to World War II to the Cold War and McCarthyism. To take that job he gave up a scientific career as one of the country’s top chemists, and he left it twenty years later to become Eisenhower’s top diplomat in postwar Germany. Hershberg’s prize-winning study, however, examines a critical aspect of Conant’s life that was long obscured by government secrecy: his pivotal role in the birth of the nuclear age. During World W...
Ancestors of Francis Walker and Sarah Effie Vinton Kelley
Francis M. Walker was born 28 August 1839, the son of John Walker (1798-1859) and Margaret Cooper Kelley. He married Sarah Effie Vinton Kelley (1858-1927), daughter of Jason and Sarah Vinton Kelley, at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in 1874.
