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Rockefeller Foundation

This diary is a report of Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence with various members of the RF IHB program, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHB, and reports on Public Health Progress in Europe in the post-war period. While the first part of Gunn's diary records his activities and meetings while based in the Paris office of the RF, the later half of the diary records his tour of Eastern Europe, specifically Prague, Belgrade, Budapest, Sofia, and Bucharest. In each of these nations, Gunn and his associates met with the chief medical officers of the local Public Health and Hygiene Institutes as well as having audiences with members of the royal families of these countries to discuss combined RF and governmental investments in Public Health and Medical Education improvements.

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Rockefeller Foundation

This diary is a report of Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence with various members of the RF IHB program, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHB, and reports on Public Health Progress in Europe in the post-war period. The diary also records Gunn's trips to Southern, Eastern, and Northern Europe as well as a brief trip to New York and Boston. In each of the nations he visited, Gunn often traveled to the capital city and/or second largest population center with senior program officers of the RF to inspect existing or underway public health institutes, sanitary engineering measures, medical schools, and nursing schools. Gunn's trip to the United States describes his meetings and deliberations with the International Health Board's senior staff in New York and his inspection of medical training and laboratory facilities in the Boston (M.I.T.) and elsewhere. Also records Gunn's movements throughout France and the movements of other IHB officers throughout Europe, including trips to Germany and Russia.

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Rockefeller Foundation

This diary is a report of Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence with various members of the RF IHB program, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHB, and reports on Public Health Progress in Europe in the post-war period. The diary also records Gunn's trips to Southern, Eastern, and Northern Europe as well as an extended trip to Turkey. In each of the nations he visited, Gunn often traveled to the capital city and/or second largest population center with senior program officers of the RF to inspect existing or underway public health institutes, sanitary engineering measures, medical schools, and nursing schools. Gunn's trip to Turkey includes visits to both officials in Istanbul as well as inspection of RF-funded (specifically IHD) construction projects in Angora. Also records Gunn's movements throughout France and the movements of other IHB officers throughout Europe, including trips to Germany and Russia.

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Gunn, Selskar M. (1888-1944)

This diary details Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence with various senior staff and field directors from the RF's IHD program in Europe, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHD, and reports from those individuals on Public Health progress in Europe. This diary contains mostly recordings of correspondence and meetings and does not indicate any inspection tours taken around Europe personally by Gunn, with the exception of a brief trip to Geneva. However, the movement of various senior staff and field directors throughout Europe are recorded for this period.

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Gunn, Selskar M. (1888-1944)

This diary details Selskar Gunn's interviews and correspondence between January 2, 1929 and December 27, 1929 with various senior staff and field directors from the RF's IHD program in Europe, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHD, and reports from those individuals on Public Health progress in Europe. This diary contains mostly recordings of correspondence and meetings but also records Gunn's travels to Spain, England, Switzerland, Hungary, and the Kingdom of Jugoslavia during this period. During these visits, Gunn met with local public health officials and Rockefeller Foundation associates to discuss the progress of public health work and medical education in these nations, as well as being granted a private audience with the Queen of Jugoslavia. The movements of various senior staff and field directors on their own trips and inspection tours throughout Europe are also recorded for this period.

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Rockefeller Foundation

This diary details Mr. Gunn's correspondence between January 2, 1930 to October 1, 1930 with various senior staff and field directors from the RF's IHD program in Europe, medical officers seeking fellowships from the IHD, and reports from those individuals on Public Health progress in Europe. Further, Gunn's business trips to London, Rome, Belgrade, Budapest, Prague, and Berlin to meet with various field directors of the RF and local public health authorities is recorded as well. Gunn also reports on the travels of staff officers and associates around the continent on behalf of the RF. The last section of Gunn's diary is an extended memoranda which recounts the conversations and resolutions made in London between Gunn and administrators at several English universities about the state and progress of various projects on the African continent.

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Rockefeller Foundation

This diary details Mr. Gunn's correspondence from 2 January, 1931 to 5 March, 1931. It is primarily composed of memoranda of meetings between Mr. Gunn and the directors and professors of the London School of Economics, the International Institute for African Languages and Cultures, and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. The memoranda exhibit the RF's efforts to expand social science research and education in the European community with the cooperation and collaboration of local resources. It also contains records of correspondence with RF senior staff and IHD European Field Directors.

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Rockefeller Foundation

This diary is a record of Mr. Gunn's interviews and travels between October 21, 1932 and September 11, 1933. This first part of Gunn's diary is devoted to his time in Hawaii interviewing the professors, doctors, and administrators of the University of Hawaii and various public health institutes. While Gunn's diary states he sailed for Yokohama Japan on Oct. 28th, the next entry on Nov. 28th places him in present-day Beijing at Yenching University. The rest of the diary records Gunn's travels to the major cities in China, inspecting the universities receiving funding from the RF and recording the state of Chinese education. Two particularly long entries record the poor quality of academic discipline in the Chinese university and the current and growing state of the hostilities between KMT and Communist forces in Fukien province.

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Fosdick, Raymond B. (Raymond Blaine) (1883-1972)

This diary records Raymond Fosdick's correspondence and meetings with several influential and important Rockefeller Foundation Officers as well as several brief encounters with Nelson Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The diary covers three subjects: the General Education Board, the Paris Office of the RF, and the Scientific Division of the RF. For the most part the journal describes the negotiations involved in disbursing RF funds for the General Education Board to colleges and universities and its endeavors in the African-American community in the American South. Fosdick also devotes a significant amount of time describing the opinions between American and British scientists and RF officers on how best to structure the Foundation's activities in Medical and Natural Sciences. Fosdick consults several experts on America's standing among the global scientific community in the fields of organic chemistry, biology, and physics. Furthermore, Fosdick consults with his fellow officers on the most efficient structure and governance of the Paris Office, which leads to a discussion on how the RF should interact with politically unfree nations such as Germany and Japan and how it should continue to conduct its work in those nations.

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Fosdick, Raymond B. (Raymond Blaine) (1883-1972)

This diary contains the memoranda and letters sent by Raymond Fosdick to his various contacts within the Rockefeller Foundation, specifically recounting conversations and decisions made on the continuation and direction of the Rockefeller Foundation's work in the medical, natural, and social sciences. As the diary covers the pre- and post-WW II period, there is significant discussion on the appropriate actions for the Foundation to take in the continuation of its activities during the war and after in China and Eastern Europe in the early stages of the Cold War. Fosdick also highlights the Foundation's significant contributions to atomic research through Ernest Lawrence and Warren Weaver and his belief that the atomic age would continue to shape the Foundation's work in each of its other departments. This diary also reveals Fosdick's desires to reorganize the Foundation's efforts in all its programs to have greater impact and relevance, especially in the areas of the General Education Board and the Division of Medical Science.