#NewSchoolForSocialResearch

People (5)

• Alvin Johnson Alvin Saunders Johnson was an American economist and editor who co-founded the New School for Social Research and organized the University in Exile for scholars displaced from Germany after 1933.
• Hans Simons German jurist and Weimar civil servant who directed the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik, emigrated in 1935, and served as the third president of the New School for Social Research from 1950.
• Hiram J. Halle Hiram J. Halle was a Cleveland-born businessman, president of Universal Oil Products and part owner of Gulf Oil, who provided principal funding with the Rockefeller Foundation for the New School's University in Exile in 1933.
• John R. Everett John R. Everett (1918-1992) led Hollins College, the New York Municipal College System and the New School, whose archive holds his 1977 CIA file on two MKULTRA subprojects funded there in 1961.
• Klara G. Roman Hungarian-born graphologist who taught at the New School from 1948 until shortly before her death in 1962, and whose Encyclopedia of the Written Word thanks the Human Ecology Fund.