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- [S24] article, New York Times, New York, NY, 7 Mar 1931, p. 16.
Dr. Clyde B. Furst, Educator, Is Dead
Secretary to Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Succumbs Suddenly.
Author of Many Books.
Held Many Teaching Posts and Was Considered Expert on Pensions for the Profession.
Dr. Clyde Bowman Furst, educator and author, who had been secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching since 1911, died yesterday afternoon of heart disease while asleep in a chair at his home, 200 Riverside Drive. His age was 57.
He had been suffering from high blood pressure since an attack of influenza a month ago. Otherwise he seemed to have recovered his health and no fears were felt for him, so that his sudden death was a shock to his family and friends. The near relatives who survive are two sons and a daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lowry Furst and Breading Furst.
Ever since his graduation from Dickinson College in 1893 the career of Dr. Furst was concerned directly or indirectly with education. Throughout thirty-seven busy years he was either teaching, writing books of interest to teachers and pupils or serving as an executive in a university or an organization engaged in providing funds for retired teachers. In the course of his most important work, as secretary to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, he was closely associated with Henry S. Pritchett, who recently resigned its presidency.
For eight years after he left college Dr. Furst combined with his own teaching and lecturing, post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins, Oxford and Columbia. From 1902 to 1911 he was secretary of Teachers College, Columbia University, where at the same time an associate professor of English. In the period of this country's participation in the World War he was an advisor to the War Department's Committee on Education. Since 1918 he had been secretary of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, and on many occasions he had been consulted as an expert when various plans for pensions were being developed.
Dr. Furst was a trustee of the Harmon Association for the Advancement of Nursing, Spence School Retirement Fund, of the Boy Scouts National Council and the National Committee on Education. He was a former member of the National Council of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the executive committee of the New York Public Education Association, a former trustee of the Century and City Clubs, a member of the Faculty and Grolier Clubs. He recently completed a term of three years as chairman of the literary committee of the Century Club.
His books included "American Literature," "The Observations of Professor Maturin" and "A Group of Old Authors." He was a co-author of many educational reports, a contributor to the International Year Book, Encyclopedia of Education and the Encyclopædia Britannica. His office was at 522 Fifth Avenue.
The funeral will be held on Monday at 10 A. M. in St. Paul's Chapel of Columbia University. Burial will be private at Brookhaven, L. I.
- [S11] gravestone, Oaklawn Cemetery, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (); May, 2005.
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