Franklin Moore (Dyke) Brown (Rhodes 1936)
Educator. Foundation Executive. Piedmont Hight School. Schule Schloss Salem (under Kurt Hahn [Rhodes]). U.C. Berkeley. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. Council on Foreign Relations.
Brown was strongly influenced by Kurt Hahn (Rhodes), the German educator who founded Outward Bound and Gordonstoun in Scotland. The conferences of schools influenced by Hahn’s educational ideas is called Round Square. For many years, Athenian was the only American member of the Round Square conference.
1977 - Retired from active service to Athenian, focusing his interest on younger children. He coordinated with the Hewlett Foundation to create the Child Development Project.
1965 - Founded the Athenian School, influenced by his experience at Schule Schloss Salem, Directed by Kurt Hahn (Rhodes)
1962 - left Ford Foundation, returned to San Francisco Bay Area to raise funds to found ‘The Athenian School’.[3]
It was during these years of living in Scarsdale that Dyke focused closer attention on education and was elected to serve for a few years on Scarsdale’s Board of Education.[3]
1953 to 1962 - Vice President of Ford Foundation.
During his years with the Ford Foundation, Dyke traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East and Asia in connection with the foundation’s work in youth development and juvenile delinquency, and was primarily responsible for the Ford Foundation’s Public Affairs Program, and the Program in Economic Development and Administration.[3]
Horace Rowan Gaither was commissioned[1] by the Ford Foundation’s Board of Trustees to create a series of studies to guide the Foundation’s growth. In 1949, Gaither recruited Brown to serve as an Assistant Director of the Study for the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program. The 1949 Gaither Report that defined the New York-based Ford Foundation’s charitable giving and focused it on education, the arts, economic development, civil rights, and the environment.[4]
Dyke assisted Mr. Gaither in setting up a plan to expand the national scope of the Ford Foundation’s grant programs. In that capacity, Dyke served as Assistant Director of the Study for the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program.[3]
1949 to 1950 - Became Partner at the firm of Cooley, Crowley and Gaither.[3]
After WW2, worked for John Francis Neylan (William Randolph Hearst’s General Counsel)[3] While he worked in John Neylan’s office, Dyke pursued his interest in various social goals, and chose to run for state assembly from the seventh congressional district. During the course of his campaign, which he later dropped so that the Democrats did not lose their own primary to a Republican incumbent, Dyke worked on the Citizens Committee for Brown. It was on this committee that Dyke worked with Rowan Gaither, another prominent San Francisco attorney.[3]
WW2 - Enlisted after Pearl Harbor, Active duty 1942 to 1945, U.S. Navy, Appointed Lt and aide to Admiral Jules James, commander of the Sixth Naval District in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1928, Admiral James married the niece of the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888)[3]
Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Law by Yale University.[3]
1941 - J.D., Yale Law School.[3]
Whilst at Oxford, visited Italy, where he met his future wife Catherine ‘Kate’ Whitely.[3]
From 1936 to 1938 - Rhodes Scholar, University College, University of Oxford.[1] (BA. MA. in Politics, Economics, and Philosophy)[3]
1936 - Graduated U.C. Berkeley. Phi Beta Kappa.[3]
Before enrolling in college, he traveled in Europe and attended the Schule Schloss Salem school in Germany, then under the direction of the noted educator, Kurt Hahn.
Other Alumni included: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Sofia of Spain, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Princess Gabriele of Leininge, Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (relatives connected to 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler), Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen (20 July plot), Alice Ricciardi-von Platen(psychoanalyst and author of 1st documentary about the mass killings of disabled and mentally ill persons by the Nazi regime), Ferdinand von Bismarck (house of Bismarck), Rudolf August Oetker (baking billionaire), Eric “Winkle” Brown (Royal Navy Test Pilot),
Died Dec 2006, from Not Known. Age 91.
[3] - DYKE BROWNATHENIAN SCHOOL FOUNDERInterviews Conducted bySuzanne Riessin 2005
[4] - Former Ford Foundation exec, Athenian School founder Dyke Brown dies
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