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Marshall I. Pickens recounts his fifty-year tenure working for the Duke Endowment fund in Charlotte, North Carolina. He explains the endowment’s purpose and lists some of the local institutions it has supported over the years, including local colleges and universities, nonprofit hospitals, child caring institutes, and rural Methodist churches. Mr. Pickens also talks briefly about people and organizations that were significant in serving the Charlotte community. In particular, he discusses the Methodist Home, United Community Services, and the Greater Charlotte Foundation; and the role of the Belk family, Mayor Stan Brookshire, and UNC Charlotte founder Bonnie Cone.

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Title
Marshall I. Pickens oral history interview 2, 1979 March 23
Creator
Pickens, Marshall I. (Marshall Ivey), 1904-1991, interviewee
Contributor
Causby, Anna, interviewer
Date (Text)
1979-03-23
Place of Creation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Extent
1 audio file (11:51) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (5 pages)
Biographical/Historical Note
Marshall I. Pickens was a 75-year-old man at the time of interview. He was born in 1904, in Pineville, North Carolina. He graduated from Duke University and was employed with the Duke Endowment as a trustee and in other capacities.
Other Identifiers
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:241
System Control No.
OH-PI0276
Subject (Person)
Pickens, Marshall I. (Marshall Ivey), 1904-1991
Belk family
Subject (Corporate)
Duke Endowment
Subject (Topic)
Endowments
Community foundations
Charities--Management
Methodist Church
Geographic Coverage
North Carolina--Charlotte
Subject (Occupation)
Executives
Nonprofit organizations--Employees
Subject (Date)
1920-1980
Type
Audio
Format
spoken word
Interviews
Oral histories
Language
English
Grant Information
Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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Record Appears in
Oral History Collections > Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte
Internet Mime Type
audio/mpeg
Location of Original
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reproduction Note
MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on reel to reel. Duplicate audio analog cassette digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.
2015-10-30
Related Materials
Marshall I. Pickens oral history interview 1, July 16, 1969. J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections. University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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