Secretary's Annual Report, Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1932.
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Secretary's Annual Report, Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1932.
Description
Plan for use of one million dollar contribution from Mr. Gustav Oberlaender to "enable American men and women who are actively engaged in work that effects the public welfare, to become better acquainted with similar activities in German-speaking countries." Also includes list of recipients of grants and awards for this purpose.
Creator
FPK
Source
From the collection of Frances Parkinson Keyes Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.
Date
1932
Contributor
Eric McDowell
Identifier
Box 1: Folder 1-6
Coverage
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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SECRETARY’S ANNUAL REPORT 1932
To the Directors and Members of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Inc,
At our Annual Meeting in May 1931 a plan was presented for developing the work of the Foundation along five distinct lines, Viz:
(a) Open the way for a few Americans who are active in formulating public opinion, to go to Germany or Austria for a period of research and study in order to be better prepared to contribute to the welfare of the American people.
(b) Provide a complementary fund to “a” for the purpose of bringing a few Germans who are active in formulating public opinion, to America in order that they may become better acquainted with the life and thought of the American people.
(c) Student and professional exchange.
(d) Cultivation of cultural relations through literature.
(e) Provide for the constant exchange of a few outstanding people from both countries who are able to interpret the life and thought of one group to the other.
These represent our major fields of work, and my report of activities during the year, therefore, will fall under these general headings.
(a) Enabling American citizens to become better acquainted with conditions in Germany and Austria.
As reported at the Annual Meeting last year, the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation received a trust fund of one million dollars from Mr. Gustav Oberlaender of Reading, Pa., to enable American men and woman who are actively engaged in work that affects the public welfare, to become better acquainted with similar activities in German-speaking countries. This splendid contribution on the part of Mr. Oberlaender adequately endows the first of our sections, and is already demonstrating its great value. It stands as the greatest single contribution to American-German relations that has ever been made. It represents a monument to be built, not out of brick and mortar, but out of living personalities whose influence for good cannot be measured.
To the Directors and Members of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Inc,
At our Annual Meeting in May 1931 a plan was presented for developing the work of the Foundation along five distinct lines, Viz:
(a) Open the way for a few Americans who are active in formulating public opinion, to go to Germany or Austria for a period of research and study in order to be better prepared to contribute to the welfare of the American people.
(b) Provide a complementary fund to “a” for the purpose of bringing a few Germans who are active in formulating public opinion, to America in order that they may become better acquainted with the life and thought of the American people.
(c) Student and professional exchange.
(d) Cultivation of cultural relations through literature.
(e) Provide for the constant exchange of a few outstanding people from both countries who are able to interpret the life and thought of one group to the other.
These represent our major fields of work, and my report of activities during the year, therefore, will fall under these general headings.
(a) Enabling American citizens to become better acquainted with conditions in Germany and Austria.
As reported at the Annual Meeting last year, the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation received a trust fund of one million dollars from Mr. Gustav Oberlaender of Reading, Pa., to enable American men and woman who are actively engaged in work that affects the public welfare, to become better acquainted with similar activities in German-speaking countries. This splendid contribution on the part of Mr. Oberlaender adequately endows the first of our sections, and is already demonstrating its great value. It stands as the greatest single contribution to American-German relations that has ever been made. It represents a monument to be built, not out of brick and mortar, but out of living personalities whose influence for good cannot be measured.