Background
Price, Don was born on January 23, 1910 in Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States. Son of Don Krasher Price and Nell Rhorer Price.
Price, Don was born on January 23, 1910 in Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States. Son of Don Krasher Price and Nell Rhorer Price.
Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1931; Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford (Rhodes scholar 1932), 1934; B. Little, University of Oxford (Rhodes scholar 1932), 1935; Doctor of Civil Law (honorary), University of Oxford, 1983; Doctor of Humane Letters, Case Institute Technology, 1967; Doctor of Humane Letters, College Wooster, 1972; the Doctor of Letters, University Pittsburgh, 1968; Doctor of Laws, Centre College Kentucky, 1961; Doctor of Laws, Syracuse University, 1962; Doctor of Laws, Bucknell U. Doctor of Laws, Harvard University, 1970.
Reporter, state editor, Nashville Eve. Tennessean, 1930-1932;
research assistant H.O.L.C., and assistant to chairman, Central Housing Committee, 1935-1937;
staff member, commission on public administration, Social Science Research Council, 1937-1939;
editorial associate, Public Administration Clearing House, 1939-1941;
assistant director, Public Administration Clearing House, 1941-1943;
associate director, Public Administration Clearing House, 1946-1953;
staff member, United States Bureau Budget, 1945-1946;
deputy chairman, Research and Development Board, unites states department Defense, 1952-1953;
associate director, The Ford Foundation, 1953-1954;
vice president, The Ford Foundation, 1954-1958;
professor government, Kennedy School Government Harvard, 1958-1980;
professor emeritus, Kennedy School Government Harvard, 1980-1995;
Weatherhead professor public management, Kennedy School Government Harvard, 1980;
Weatherhead professor emeritus, Kennedy School Government Harvard, 1980-1995;
dean, Kennedy School Government Harvard, 1958-1977;
Eastman professor, fellow, Balliol College, U. Oxford, England, 1985-1986. Trustee Twentieth Century Fund, 1965-1995, chairman of the board of trustees, 1977-1982;board trust Vanderbilt University, 1964-1995.
Trustee Rand Corporation, 1961-1971. Senior member Institute Medicine of National Academy Sciences, 1979-1995. Assistant to Herbert Hoover (on study of the United States Presidency under auspices Commision on Organisation Exec.Br.
Government), 1947-1948. Consultant Executive Office of President, 1961-1972. Director Social Science Research Council, 1949-1952, 64-69.
Staff director Committee on Department Defense Organisation, 1953. Member President's advising committee on government organization, 1959-1961. Adviser to the King of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1960.
Staff Home Owners’ Loan Corporation 1935-1937, Social Science Research Council 1937-1939, Public Administration Clearing House 1939-1953, United States Bureau of the Budget 1945-1946, Hoover Commission, on Organization of. President"s Advisory Committee on Government Organization 1959-1961. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Institute of Medicine.
Married Margaret Helen Gailbreath, March 3,1936 (deceased February 1970). Children: Don C., Linda. Married Harriet Sloane Fels, May 8, 1971.