HARVARD Collection of papers
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~env00004
PROVENANCE:
The Maurice F. Strong Papers were acquired in their entirety in 2000. Approximately 1/2 of the papers were collected at the home of Maurice F. Strong in Lost Lake, Ontario. The remaining 1/2 were collected from the home of Hanne Marstrand Strong in Crestone, Colorado, the wife of Maurice F. Strong.
Those materials collected in Ontario span the early life of his career and the early 1990s to the present. Those materials collected in Colorado span the mid-range of his career dating from the early 1970s to the late 1980s.
It is believed that Strong made his permanent residence at the Crestone home during the time period 1970-1989 as a result of his marriage to Hanne Marstrand. The materials held in Ontario date prior to his marriage to Hanne; the materials from 1990s to the present presumably were sent to Ontario as a result of a separation from Hanne.
The Maurice F. Strong Papers are the physical property of the Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives, Harvard College. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.
CITE AS:
Maurice F. Strong Papers: 1948-2000, Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives, Harvard College Library.
Maurice F. Strong, 1929-
MAURICE STRONG was named Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank in June 1995. From December 1992 until December 1995, Mr. Strong was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ontario Hydro, North America’s largest utility.
Until September 1992, Mr. Strong was Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations.
During 1985 and 1986, he served as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa and was a member of the World Commission on Environment and Development.
Born in Canada and a resident of Toronto, Canada, Mr. Strong has longstanding ties with both the private and public sectors. Mr. Strong served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment from November 1970 to December 1972, and subsequently became the first Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya (January 1973-December 1975).
He was then appointed President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Canada’s national oil company, Petro-Canada.
He also has been President of Power Corporation of Canada, first President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Chairman of the Canada Development Investment Corporation and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDCR) in Canada.
Mr. Strong is an advisor to the United Nations, and serves on the board of several other public service organizations. He has been a director and/or officer of a number of Canadian, U.S. and international corporations.
He has received a number of awards and honours including the Order of Canada, the Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star, and honourary doctorates from 37 universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.), the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Architectural Society of Canada.Mr.
Strong was born 29 April 1929, and educated in Manitoba, Canada. He is married to Hanne Marstrand and has four children, a foster child and eight grandchildren. His current appointments include
* Under-Secretary General and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, United Nations
* Special Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme>
* Chairman, Earth Council Institute
* Chairman, International Advisory Board, CH2M Hill Group Inc.
* Director, Foundation Board, World Economic Forum
* Director, The Human Society of the United States
* Member, Toyota International Advisory Board
* Director, Zenon Environmental Inc.
Past appointments include:
* Special Advisor to the President, World Bank
* 1998-2001 Mamber International Advisory Board, Federation of Korean Industry
* 1992-1995 Chairman, Ontario Hydro
* 1992 Secretary General, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
* 1985-1986 Executive Coordinator, United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa
* 1983-1987 Member World Commission on Environment and Development
* 1976-1978 President, Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Petro-Canada
* 1973-1975 Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
* 1970-1972 Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
* 1970-1972, 1976-1980, Chairman, Board of Governors, International Development Research Centre, Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum
* 1966-1970 Headed Canada’s International Development Assistance Program as Director-General of the External Aid Office, and later as President and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
* 1966-1970 Alternate Governor for Canada- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Chairman, Bureau of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
SCOPE and CONTENT
The collection consists of the business, personal and professional papers of Maurice F. Strong dating from his career
beginning in 1948, through his work as the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on the Human Environment,
as the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, with the Office for Emergency Operations in Africa during the 1980s African famine,
as the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Environment and Development of 1992, and ending with his directorship of the Earth Council.
The order of the collection has been retained as it was in storage and reflect 12 phases of Strong’s career. They are:
I. Early personal papers dating from 1945-1954;
II. Power Corporation years, 1962-1970 as the head of this Crown Corporation in Canada;
III. External Aid Office/CIDA years dating from 1966-1970 as the Director of the Office which later became the Canadian International Development Agency;
IV. UN Conference on the Human Environment/UN Environment Programme years, 1970-1975 as the Secretary-General and Executive Director respectively;
V. Colorado/”F” Series dating from 1968-1985, a grouping of alphabetical files found in Strong’s home in Colorado spanning several career periods;
VI. Petro-Canada years, 1976-1978 as Chief Executive Officer of a major Canadian petroleum company;
VII. Private enterprise and public service years I, 1978-1984 during which time he was involved in a number of financial ventures and with a number of governmental and non-governmental organizations;
VIII. African famine years, 1984-1986 as the head of the UN effort to disseminate aid to African countries under the seige of famine;
IX. Private enterprise and public service years II, 1986-1989;
X. Earth Summit/Earth Council years, 1990-1992 as Secretary-General of the Earth Summit and Director of the Earth Council;
XI. Ontario-Hydro years, 1992-1995; and
XII. UN years, 1993-2000 as a consult to the Secretary-General of the UN.
The collections contains a number of general series including correspondence, diaries, clippings, alphabetical files, trip files, university visits, personal files, organization files, chronological files, day files, publicity, subject and speech reference file, speeches and writings and event files. Within the organizations files are corporate documents such as financial statements, annual reports, correspondence, project reports, proposals, etc.
Strong, Anna Louise Nebraska-born journalist Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) was a prolific author with a wide readership. She wrote some thirty books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles on behalf of causes and ideologies to which she was sympathetic.
Her travels to the Soviet Union, China, and other countries in support of communism gave her a wide circle of acquaintances on the world stage including Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and Chou En-lai.
Miss Strong was born in Friend, Nebraska, on November 24, 1885, where her father was a Congregational minister. The family left Friend for Seattle, Washington, when she was less than two years of age.
Miss Strong in 1905 was graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio at the age of nineteen. In 1908 at the age of twenty-two, she became the youngest woman ever to receive a doctorate from the University of Chicago. ((((incubator of commies and thugs?)))
After several years of involvement in leftist causes in the United States, Miss Strong went to the Soviet Union in 1921 for the American Friends relief mission. She remained there, serving as correspondent for Hearst magazines and later for the North American Newspaper Alliance. In 1930 she founded the Moscow Daily News, the first English language newspaper in the Soviet Union.
Miss Strong emerged as one of the most sympathetic and prolific writers about the Soviet Union. She also traveled extensively in China and became acquainted with Chinese leaders. Arrested and deported as an alleged spy in 1949 during the Joseph Stalin era, she was exonerated six years later.
After her expulsion from the Soviet Union, Miss Strong returned to the United States. The U.S. State Department denied her a passport in the 1950s, but she took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in her favor in 1958 and ordered the passport issued. She went to China by way of the Soviet Union.
From Beijing she issued a regular newsletter, Letter from China, which dealt with international politics. She died in 1970 at the age of eighty-four in Beijing and is buried there. A biography, Right in Her Soul: The Life of Anna Louise Strong, was published in 1984.
(July 2001)
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Fellow travelers: Strong, Dunham/Obama/Soetoro, Dunn
Anna Louise Strong - Biography and Works
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