Don Krasher Price, Jr. (Rhodes 1932)
Middlesboro High School. Vanderbilty University. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. Counci on Foreign Relations. Bilderberg.
Mr. Price’s work spanned the era in which Government-sponsored research led to the manufacture of atomic and hydrogen bombs and the exploration of space.[2]
The Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Administrations turned to Mr. Price for counsel on structuring the Government.[2]
1985 - Published, America’s Unwritten Constitution.
1985 - Return to Oxford, to spend a year at Balliol College as George Eastman Visiting Professor, during which time he was awarded an honary doctorate by the university.
Until retirement 1980 - Professor at Harvard.[2]
1977 to 1982 - Chairman of the board of trustees of Twentieth Century Fund
1971 - Married Harriet Sloane Fels. Son Don C. Price. Daughter Linda Thomson. Two step-children Anna and Thomas Fels.[2]
1970 - First wife Margaret H. Gailbreath died.[2]
From 1965, Chosen to Head, from 1967, President of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, an association of 300 scientific organizations with a membership of about 100,000 — one of the few social scientists to gain this post.[2]
1965 - Published, The Scientific Estate by Harvard University Press.[2]. “The union of the political and scientific estates is not like a partnership, but a marriage. It will not be improved if the two become like each other, but only if they respect each other’s quite different needs and purposes. No great harm is done if in the meantime they quarrel a bit.”[2]
1961 to 1963 - Advisor to President John F. Kennedy on the structure and operations of the Federal Government.
1958 to 1977 - Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard University. (Renamed John F. Kennedy School of Government).[2] Introduced an interdisciplinary graduate seminar in science and public policy.[2]
1954 - Published, Government and Science.
1954 to 1958 - Assistant Director, and then Vice President of Ford Foundation .[2]
1953 - Lecturer, New York University.[2]
1952 to 1953 - U.S. Department of Defense’s Research & Development Board.[7]
From 1947 - Chosen to be staff director of the first Hoover Commission, a bipartisan study of government organization under joint congressional and presidential sponsorship, which was both prestigious and consequential.[7]
1945 to 1946 - Bureau of the Budget by President Harry S. Truman (Freemason). Where he helped draft the legislation establishing both the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation.[2]
WW2 - Lieutenant, US Coast Guard.
1940, Published City Manager Government in the US. (co-author)
Mr. Price began studying contemporary government structures as a graduate student in England, then worked for two years for the Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation in developing a national housing policy. As a member of the Social Science Research Council he was a co-author with Harold and Kathryn Stone of a 1940 study titled “City Manager Government in the United States.”.[2]
From 1932 to 1934 - Rhodes Scholar, Merton College, University of Oxford.[1] (B.Litt)[2]
Two years as a reporter and editor for The Nashville Evening Tennesseean.[2]
1927 to 1931 - Vanderbilty University. (B.A.)
Died 9 Jul 1995, from Alzeimer’s disease. Age 85.
[2] - Don K. Price, 85, Educator And Science Promoter, Dies By David Binder
[3] - FYI - Wiki - Don Krasher Price, Jr. (Rhodes 1932)
[4] - Geni.com - Don Krasher Price, Jr. (Rhodes 1932)
[5] - The scientific estate by Price, Don K. (Don Krasher) 1910-1995, author
[6] - Mikekirstbiographyproject.com - Don Krasher Price, Jr. (Rhodes 1932)
[7] - JStor - Journal Article Don K. Price (23 January 1910-9 July 1995) Richard E. Neustadt
[8] - 1957 Bilderberg Meeting Participant List
[9] - Council on Foreign Relations - Don Krasher Price, Jr. (Rhodes 1932)
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