Columbia University Atlantic Philanthropies oral history project

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Phase I interviews: Gerry Adams, Harold Adler, Suzanne Aisenberg, Le Vu Anh, David Beanland, Bob Beck, Adrian Bellamy, Padraig Berry, Gail Bianchi, Alec Broers, Michael H. Brown, Robert J. Bruso, Geoff Budlender, Bob Butler, Jean-Paul Camus, Michael J.R. Carlton, Gerhard Casper, Jack Clark, Ron Clarke, Edwin Cohen, Mark Conroy, Suzanne Cory, Angela Covert, Ara Daglian, Harvey Dale, Steven Denning, Bill Dietel, David Dittman, Roger Downer, James Downey, Christine Downton, Daniel Doyle, Robert Edmonds, Sara Engelhardt, David Erskine, Fred Eydt, Charles Feeney, Peter Fithian, Arlene Fitzpatrick, Joel L. Fleishman, William Flynn, Robert J. Futoran, John Gentzbourger, Dennis Gibson, Pierre Godé, Robert Goldman, Michael Gwinnell, Raymond Handlan, Paul Hannon, John Hay, John A. Healy, John R. Healy, Ursula Healy, David C. Hodgson, Ted Howell, Joseph J. Jamison, Jean Karoubi, Keith Kennedy, Gerald Kraak, Theodore Kresge, Gara LaMarche, Edward Lansdale, Kenneth J. Logue, Hugh D. Lunn, Joseph P. Lyons, Roy J. Magee, Jeffrey Mahlstedt, Michael Mann, Martin Mansergh, Robert Matousek, Craig Mayor, Aine McCarthy, Elizabeth McCormack, Grainne McCoy, Colin McCrea, Peter McCue, Martin McGuinness, Bob Miller, Truong Tan Minh, George J. Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell, Fabian Monds, John Monteiro, Jack Moore, Bruce A. Morrison, Michael P. Mortell, Frank Mutch, Jacques Nordeman, Connor O'Clery, Brian O'Connell, Jill O'Donnell Tormey, Niall O'Dowd, Danny O'Hare, Rita O'Hare, Sean O'Huiginn, Christopher Oechsli, Lloyd J. Old, Alan M. Parker, Robert Payton, Christine B. Pendry, Le Nahn Phuong, Tony Pilaro, Lawrie W. Powell, Mamphela Ramphele, Hunter Rawlings, Albert Reynolds, Stephen Reynolds, Frank H. T. Rhodes, Cynthia R. Richards, Charles G. Rolles, Alan Ruby, James Scannell, Frederick A. O. "Fritz" Schwarz, Jr., Ted R. Sizer, David Smith, Peter Smitham, Michael Sovern, James Spencer, Ciaran Staunton, Leon Sterling, Ernie Stern, David Sternlieb, Bonnie Suchet, Eugene Tempel, John Terzano, Dr. Donald Thornhill, Huynh Thi Trang, Myron Ullman, Laurence Vogel, Luigi Votano, Edward Walsh, Sue Wesselkamper, Michael Windsor, Gerold Wunderlich, Phan Quang Xung (with translator Ha Le Hung), and Cummings Zuill.

Phase II: Annmarie Benedict, Deepak Bhargava, Kenneth Bowman, Gail Birkbeck, Brad Brockman, Julie Brown, Phil Buchanan, Duc Phu Bui, Amit Chandra, Madeleine Clarke, Peter Coaldrake, Philip Coates, Eoin Collins, Paul Connolly, Sarah Cooke, Tom Costello, Steve Denning, Christine Downton, Frances Fitzgerald, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Joel Fleishman, Joanne Florino, Ian Frazer, Marc Freedman, Tony Gallagher, Robert Greenstein, Billy Hall, Nguyen Trong Hau, John R. Healy, John A. Healy, Dmitri Holtzman, Joanne Hughes, Doron Isaacs, Patrick Johnston, Stanley Katz, Brian Kearney-Grieve, Regis Kelly, David Kennedy, Rose Anne Kenny, Ben Kerman, Gara LaMarche, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Janet Love, Zola Madikizela, Robert "Bob" Matousek, Steve McConnell, Elizabeth McCormack, Bruce Miller, Tom Mitchell, Mario Morino, David Morse, Cecilia Munoz, Paul Murray, Martin O'Brien, Brian O'Connell, Niall O'Dowd, Chris Oechsli, Alan Parker, Christine Pendry, Le Nhan Phuong, Tony Proscio, Marian Quinn, Padriac Quirk, Duong Hoang Quyen, Cynthia Richards, Ian Robertson, Anthony Romero, Kieran Rose, Jack Rosenthal, Albie Sachs, Fritz Schwarz, Pharie Sefali, Frank Sharry, Brian Sheehan, Norma Sinte, David Skorton, Brad Smith, Dave Smith, Peter Smitham, Michael Sovern, David Sternlieb, Chris Stone, Mary Sutton, David Walsh, and Ian Young.

Dates

2005 - 2017

Conditions Governing Access

Phase I transcripts are restricted until December 2021. Phase II: 2025. (Exceptions in Phase I: Broers, Alec (restricted until death or 1/1/2040); Carlton, Michael (pages 115-125 restricted until 2025); Casper, Gerhard (restricted until death); Cohen, Edwin (restricted until death); Dietel, William (restricted until death); Goldman, Robert (restricted until death); Lund, Hugh (restricted until death or 1/1/2028); Gwinnell, Michael: (restricted until death or 2038: pages 126-182, 137-53, 212-13, 262-263, 266-69, 275-79, 281-85, 287-89, 303-13, 319-325)). Transcripts for Chris Oechsli are restricted until 2030.

Conditions Governing Access

Researchers can access only transcripts.

Biographical / Historical

The Oral History Research Office at Columbia University began work on Phase I of the Atlantic Philanthropies Oral History Project in 2005. Interviewees include Atlantic Philanthropies executives, business associates of Chuck Feeney, institutional partners, and grantees. Chuck Feeney himself was interviewed during this phase. Interviews were focused on documenting Feeney's life, with particular focus on the creation of Duty Free Shoppers, the establishment of Atlantic Philanthropies, and Feeney's philosophy of "Giving While Living". Upon its completion in 2008, the first phase contained over 560 hours of testimony given by 138 different narrators.

In 2014, the Columbia Center for Oral History Research at INCITE (formerly OHRO) received a grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to conduct a second set of interviews. Interviews for Phase II were taken between 2014 and 2016, with the focus on documenting the last years of Atlantic’s existence, particularly the changes in its grantmaking, as well as the challenges inherent in becoming a spend-down foundation. Phase II contains 142 oral history sessions with 84 narrators totaling 220 recorded hours.

In 2018, Columbia sent digital copies of the recordings and their transcripts to Cornell University's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

Extent

557.46 gigabytes.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

The oral history recordings and transcripts that compose this collection are digital copies given to RMC by Columbia in 2018 via an external hard-drive. Originals are housed at the Columbia Center for Oral History Archives at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.