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John W. Gardner
John William Gardner (October 8, 1912 - February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
A native of California, John W. Gardne...visualizza altroJohn William Gardner (October 8, 1912 - February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
A native of California, John W. Gardner attended Stanford University. He received the A.B. degree “with great distinction” and went on to an M.A. degree in psychology. During his undergraduate years he won a number of Pacific Coast swimming championships and set several records.
In 1936, he took a job as teaching assistant at the University of California, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1938. He later taught psychology at Connecticut College and Mount Holyoke College.
In the early days of World War II he was chief of the Latin American Section, Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service. Then he entered the Marine Corps. He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services and saw overseas service in Italy and Austria.
Mr. Gardner joined the staff of Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1946 and was elected president in 1955. In the same year he was elected president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
He has served as an adviser to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, and as a consultant to the U.S. Air Force, which awarded him the Exceptional Service Award in 1956. He was a member of the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a director of the New York Telephone Company and the Shell Oil Company, and chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs.
He died in Palo Alto, California in 2002 at the age of 89.visualizza meno
Libri di John W. Gardner
Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society [First Edition]