Up for auction "Management of Foundations" Dr. Arnold  Zurcher Signed 5.5X3 Card. 

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Dr.

Arnold John Zurcher, professor emeritus of political science at New York

University and executive director of the Sloan Foundation from 1945 to 1968,

died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack. He was stricken while swimming in

Long Island Sound off New Rochelle, N.Y. Dr. Zurcher was 71 years old and lived

at 102 Cliff Avenue, Pelham, N.Y. He had had a long career in education and as

an author and had received many honors. One of his books, “A Dictionary of

Economics,” written with H. S. Sloan in 1949, drew this comment from Burton

Crane, writing in The New York Times: “This is considerably more than its name

implies, for it includes entries that make it guide to both the main events in

economic history, such as strikes, and to important court decisions on economic

matters.” Dr. Zurcher wrote “The Management of Foundations” and, with Jane

Dustan, “The Foundation Administration,” both published in 1972. His work,

based on his years with the Sloan Foundation as a vice president, warned that

Congressional criticism of foundations would continue “unless a great many more

foundations with, substantial assets,‐ foundiftions, which at present are

little more than addresses in a post office, layyer's office or a bank, establish

administrative headquarters of their own, hire some permanent full‐time employes and begin

to act like responsible organizations.” He also wrote “Experiment With

Democracy in Central Europe,” 1933; “Propaganda and Dictatorship,” with H. L.

Childs and others, 1936; “The Governments of Continental Europe,” with J. T.

Shotwell and others, 1940, and “Postwar European Federation,” with Count R. N.

Coudenhove‐Kalergi

and others, 1943. Dr. Zurcher was born in South Amherst, Ohio, on Oct. 20,

1902, and received an A.B. degree at Oberlin, College in 1924, a Master's at

Cornell University in 1926 and his Ph.D at Princeton University in 1928. He

returned to Cornell as a fellow in social science and then went to, Princeton

as a fellow in politics. Dr. Zurcher joined the N.Y.U. faculty in 1928 and

stayed for much of, his career, rising to full professor and then professor

emeritus. From time to time he left briefly, to serve as a visiting lecturer at

Princeton, for a similar post at Yale and for stint as a civilian lecturer at

the War Department's School of. Military Government at the University of

Virginia in 1943‐44. Dr.

Zurcher also served the Sloan Foundation and lectured at Army and Navy colleges

and at the School of Industrial Management at the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology. Greece gave him its Golden Cross of the Order of Phoenix. Dr.

Zurcher was a member of the New York Council of Foreign Relations, the American

Political Science Association, the American Association of University

Professors and the Phi Beta Kappa Association. He was the editor and coauthor

of a number of textbooks on Political science.