In 1888, Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a 425-mile ( 685 km ) long railway, and a line of lake steamships.

The Carnegie Mellon University campus in Pittsburgh has served as the locale for many motion pictures.

Dulles also served as the Chairman and Co-founder of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America ( succeeded by the National Council of Churches ), the Chairman of the Board for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1935 to 1952, and was a founding member of Foreign Policy Association and Council of Foreign Relations.

The Portsmouth Public Library, a Carnegie library, and its five branches have served the county since 1879.

He had been director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for 12 years, where he had also served as chief curator and curator of contemporary art.

Orangevale is served by two junior highs ; Louis Pasteur and Andrew Carnegie.

" The town is served by an original Carnegie library and is an important crossroads on US highways 41 and 24.

The community of Oswego is served by the Oswego Public Library ( OPL ), a Carnegie Library.

Wellsville is also served by the Wellsville Carnegie Public Library.

Also of interest is the Bost Building, a restored brick structure that served as headquarters for the strikers during the 1892 strike by workers at Carnegie Steel.

The depot is also served by connections to the Twin Transit Transportation system and is located within walking distance to Carnegie Library, Historic Fox Theater, McMenamin ’ s Olympic Club Hotel & Theater, Santa Lucia Coffee Company as well as various eateries, shops, and antique vendors.

Hunt served on the Carnegie Task Force, which created the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and more recently on the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education.

During and after his Senate service, Root served as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1910 to 1925.

Holde, Councillor Ralph Yates and Carnegie himself, The library has served the town ever since, with the original lecture hall being transformed into the Library Theatre in June 1971.

Daniel Coit Gilman ( July 6, 1831 – October 13, 1908 ) was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution.

Following his dismissal, Kerr served on the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education until 1973 and was chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education from 1974 to 1979.

In April 1945, James T. Shotwell, director of the Carnegie Endowment ’ s Division of Economics and History, served as chairman of the semiofficial consultants to the U. S. delegation at the San Francisco conference to draw up the United Nations Charter.

At Carnegie Mellon, he served as a resident assistant, studied abroad, and was an active intramural sports participant.

He later served as director of the National Advisory Committee on Education and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

It was created in 1662 for John Carnegie, who notably served as Sheriff of Forfarshire.

From 1951 until 1971 he served as the director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory, and as president from 1971 to 1978.

In the 1980s at the Software Engineering Institute ( SEI ) at Carnegie Mellon University Humphrey founded the Software Process Program, and served as director of that program from 1986 until the early 1990s.

He has also served on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Mt.

An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Carnegie once gave $ 25, 000 to Speaker of the House David B. Henderson to erect a library on the campus of Upper Iowa University in his name.

Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research.

Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.

Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.

In 1864, Carnegie invested $ 40, 000 in Story Farm on Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

In 1881, Carnegie took his family, including his 70 year-old mother, on a trip to the United Kingdom.

To counter what he perceived as imperialism on the part of the United States, Carnegie personally offered $ 20 million to the Philippines so that the Filipino people could buy their independence from the United States.

From 1901 forward, public attention was turned from the shrewd business acumen which had enabled Carnegie to accumulate such a fortune, to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic projects.

" The telescope saw first light on November 2, 1917, with Carnegie still alive.

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and grew out of a dispute between the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States and the Carnegie Steel Company.

Carnegie left on a trip to Scotland before the unrest peaked.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

Furthermore, Carnegie ’ s success was due to his convenient relationship with the railroad industries, which not only relied on steel for track, but were also making money from steel transport.

Carnegie held that societal progress relied on individuals meeting their moral obligations to themselves and to society.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

He did not oppose the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Carnegie stood still on his opposition towards the annexation of the Philippines.

The creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910 was regarded as a milestone on the road to the ultimate goal of abolition of war.

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.