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  1. www.spelman.edu › about-us › history-in-briefSpelman History in Brief | Spelman College

    Renovation of Laura Spelman Rockefeller Hall; Wellness Revolution launched; 2013. Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell becomes the 10th president of Spelman College, succeeding Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum; 2014. Spelman College exceeds its comprehensive fundraising campaign goal, generating $157.8 million — the largest amount raised in the history of the ...

  2. www.rockefeller.uchicago.edu › the-carillonthe Carillon | Rockefeller Chapel Website - University of Chicago

    The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and its sister instrument at Riverside Church in New York City, both dating from the early 1930s, were the masterworks of the Gillett & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon, England. Carillons of this size had never before been made, and have not been made again since that time.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_DJohn D. Rockefeller Jr. - Wikipedia

    In the social sciences, he founded the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1918, which was subsequently folded into the Rockefeller Foundation in 1929. A committed internationalist, he financially supported programs of the League of Nations and crucially funded the formation and ongoing expenses of the Council on Foreign Relations and its initial headquarters building in New York in 1921.

  4. resource.rockarch.org › story › black-education-andBlack Education and Rockefeller Philanthropy from the Jim ... -...

    11. Sept. 2020 · The Rockefeller Foundation and the Future of the GEB’s Southern Program. By the 1930s, the GEB was one of two Rockefeller philanthropies working expressly on southern race issues (the other was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, founded in 1917).LSRM, Series 3.8, Appropriations – Interracial Relations, Rockefeller Archive Center.

  5. www.rbf.org › about › our-historySpelman College | Rockefeller Brothers Fund

    Even among institutions sustained by the Rockefeller philanthropies and family, Spelman College has held a special place. Established as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, it was incorporated in 1888 as Spelman College, in honor of Laura Spelman Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and her parents, who had been abolitionists.

  6. rockarch.org › resources › about-the-rockefellersJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1874-1960 | Rockefeller Archive Center

    John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (JDR Jr.) was a philanthropist who gave more than $537 million to educational, religious, cultural, medical, and civic projects. The son of John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Company, and Laura Spelman Rockefeller, he was born on January 29, 1874, in Cleveland, Ohio, and died on May 11, 1960, in Tucson, Arizona.

  7. rockarch.org › resources › about-the-rockefellersAbout the Rockefellers | Rockefeller Archive Center

    15 Dayton Avenue Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591. Phone: (914) 366-6300 Fax: (914) 631-6017 E-mail: archive@rockarch.org