Henry Allen Moe (Rhodes 1919)
Foundation Executive. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford.
Numerous honary degrees, both in the United States and abroad, including Doctor of Civil Laws from Oxford University in 1960.[2] and Inner Temple (London), barrister at law.[6]
During his 38 years with the Guggenheim Foundation, Dr. Moe supervised the granting of fellowships totalling $2.2million [Seems low. $440/ea] to assist more than 5,000 men and women to carry on original research in all fields of knowledge and creative activity in the arts.[2] “He could remember virtuall every fellow and what he did … and always made time to see them when they returned, moving them to feel that the foundation was their intellectual home.”[2]
After retiring, he devoted himself to other philanthropic, scholarly and educational interest.s[2]
- Board Chairman and President of the New York State Historical Association.[2]
- President of the American Philosophical Society.[2]
- President of the Farmers Museum by the Clark Foundation of which he was a trustee.[2]
- Member of Committee of Award of the Vetlesen Foundation, New York.[6]
- 12 Years or so, Member, Board of Trustees, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York.[6]
- 20 years or so , Member of the Advisory Committee of the Ditson Fund for Music, Columbia University, New York.[6]
1965 to ? - Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.[6]
1965 to 1966 - (interim) Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.[6]
Spring 1965, Regent’s Lecturer University of California. Advisor to the dean of the graduate division.[6]
1964 to Date - Chairman of the advisory council, Association of American University Presses.[6]
1964 to 1965 - President of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[2]
1963 to 1964 - Member, Advisory Committee on Tax-Excempt Foundations, U.S. Treasury Department, Secretary C. Douglas Dillion (CFR. Society of Cincinnati. Classmates with three rockefellers) by President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson[6]
1963 to Date - Member of a committee, named by the American Association of Museums (Washington D.C.) to solve the problem presented in 1963 when the trustees of the Cooper Union Museum of Decorative Arts and dispose of the collections.[6]
1963 to ? - Member of Committee of Award of the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, Aspen, Colo.[6]
1960 to ? - Board of Trustees and Chairman, Institute of Modern Art.[6]
1945 - Chairman of a committee under Dr. Vannevar Bush, Dircetor of the Office of Research and Development, to make a study “of the discovery and development of scientific talent in American youth.”. See Dr. Bush’s report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Science: The Endless Frontier.”
1945 to ? - Executive Vice President, Maud E. Warwick Fund for Orphans of World War II, New York. Member of the board of trustees.[6]
1944 to 1960 - Trustee of The Rockefeller Foundation.[6]
1943, Member, 1945 to 1959, 1961 to ?, Vice Chairman, 1959 to 1961, Chairman - Board of Trustees, Museum of Modern Art, New York.[6]
1943 - Member of the committee (formed by the W. B. Saunders Co., Philadephia publishers of medical books) to select two medical scholars for writing fellowships of $15,000 each.[6]
WW2 - Chairman of the Committee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Cooperation, under the coordinator of inter-American affiars (who has Hon. Nelson A. Rockefeller). This organisation arranged for the sending of American scholars and artists to Latin America and for the bringing to the United States of Latin American Scholars and artists.[6]
1941 to date - Member of the board of trustees of the American Academy in Rome, member of the executive committee uring the same period except for the years 1955 and 1956.[6]
1933 to 1953, Trustee, 1936 to 1946, Chairman of the Institute for Current World Affairs, N.Y.[6]
1931 to about 1953 - Trustee, Oberlaender Trust, Philadelphia, Pa. This foundation was established to foster good relations with Germany; when Hitler came to power this became a futile enterprise and from then on the moneys of the trust were devoted to the assistance of German-Austrian refugee scholars - who had escaped or were booted our by Hitler - In the United States. For an account of the trust’s assistance to such persons, see “The Rufugee Intellectuals: The Americanization of the Immigrants of 1933 -41,” by Donald Peterson Kent, Columbia University Press 1953.[6]
1930 to 1933 - Member of the board of trustees of the American Institute for Persian Art and Archaeology. Secretary of the corporation and member of the executive commitee during the same years.[6]
1928 to 1965, Treasurer, 1966 to ? - Member of the board of direction, Association of American Rhodes Scholars.[6]
1927 to 1929 - Lecturer in law, Columbia University.[6]
1924 to 1963 - Principal Administrator Officer, Secretary, Secretary-General and President of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[2][6] Member of the board of trustees 1945 to date. Provides fellowships to scholars and artists of all kinds to assist their studies; citizens of the United States, of all the American Republics, of Canada and of the Philippines are eligible for the fellowship.)[6]
When Simon Guggenheim industrialist and former United States Senator, consulted Mr. Carroll about establishing a memorial to his young son who had been killed, Mr Carroll enlisted the assistance of Dr. Moe who had then just returned to the Uited States to embark on a career in law. He talked with Mr and Mrs Guggenheim, toured the country asking the advice of educators and came up with the plan for the foundation. He was its first secretary, laters its secretary general and in 1961 became its president..[2]
From 1919 to ? - Rhodes Scholar, Brasenose College, University of Oxford.[1]
WW1 - Joined U.S. Navy. While in command of a Navy destroyer he suffered severe injuries when a boom collapsed. From his hospital bed, he sent an application for a Rhodes Scholarship that so impressed Carroll Wilson, a New York bibliographer, former Rhodes scholar and lawyer, that he went to the hospital to visit the applicant and obtained a scholarship for him.[2]
1916 - Reports for The St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press for a year.[2]
Died 1 Oct 1975, from Not Known. Age 81.
Married Edith Louise Monrow. Son Christian Hollis Moe, professor of theater arts at the University of Southern Illinois.
[3] - FYI - Wiki - Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanitities
[4] The Rockefeller Foundation - Annual Report 1944
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