Carroll Vincent Newsom

Carroll Vincent Newsom was born February 23, 1904 in Buckley, IL. Newsom received a B.A. from the College of Emporia in 1924, a M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1927 and a Ph.D. in 1931.

His academic career began as a mathematics instructor at the College of Emporia in 1924, at Michigan (1927-1928) and the University of New Mexico (1928-1929). He was appointed assistant professor there in 1929, associate professor in 1931, and professor in 1933, and served as Head of the Department from 1931-1944. He was Professor of Mathematics and Chairman of the Science Division at Oberlin College from 1944-1948.

From 1944-1955, he was Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education, then Associate Commissioner for Higher and Professional Education, for the State of New York. Newsom was appointed Executive Vice President in 1955 at New York University and served as 11th NYU President from 1956-1962. Newsom was President of Prentice Hall, Inc. from 1964-1965 and Director of NBC from 1961-1971, serving as Vice President from 1966-1969. A mathematician, president of NYU, on board of RCA,VP of Prentice-Hall, etc. etc.

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Resume of Carroll Vincent Newsom

• Graduated - Waxahachie, Texas High School ,1920
• BA College of Emporia, 1924
• MA University of Michigan 1927
• PhD University of Michigan 1931

Major Positions Held

• Vice President, Radio Corporation of America - 1966-
• Chairman of the Board, President, & Director, The Prentice-Hall Corporation - 1964-65
• Vice Chairman of the Board and Senior Vice President, Prentice-Hall, Inc. - 1962-64
• President, New York University - 1956-62
• Executive Vice President, New York University - 1955-56
• Associate Commissioner for Higher & Professional Education, State of N.Y. - 1950-55
• Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education, State of New York - 1948-50
• Professor of Mathematics & Chairman, Science Division, Oberlin College - 1944-48
• Professor, Head, Mathematics Department, University of New Mexico - 1933-44
• Associate Professor, University of New Mexico - 1931-33
• Instructor, University of Michigan - 1930-31
• Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico - 1929-30
• Instructor, University of New Mexico - 1928-29
• Instructor, University of Michigan - 1927-28

Major Memberships

• Member, Board of Directors, Radio Corporation of America - 1961-
• Consultant, Radio Corporation of America - 1964-
• Member, Board of Directors, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. - 1961-
• Member, Board of Directors, Random House - 1966-
• Member, Board of Directors, M. Lowenstein & Sons, Inc. - 1965-
• Member, Board of Trustees, Guggenheim foundation - 1963-
• Member, Board of Design, Sterling Forest Corporation, Inc. - 1961-
• Member, Board of Trustees, Franklin Book Programs (Vice Chairman, 1965) - 1962-
• Member, Board of Directors, African-American Chamber of Commerce - 1964-
• Vice Chairman, Candlewood Isle Corporation - 1964-
• Member, Bergen Co. Chamber of Commerce - 1964-65
• Member, Board of Directors, The American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1963-65
• Member, Harvard Visiting Committee for Biology - 1963-
• Member, Board of Trustees, Briarcliff College - 1955-
• Member, Board of Trustees, Ithaca College, (Chairman, Executive Committee 1966-, Chairman, Nominating Committee 1966- ) - 1961-
• Member, Board of Trustees, Mills College of Education - 1962-64
• Member, Board of Trustees, New York University - 1955-62
• Member, Board of Trustees, New College, Sarasota, Florida - 1961-66
• Member, Council of American Geographical Society - 1962-65
• Member, Board of Directors, Phelps-Stokes Fund - 1956-65
• Member, Council of Advisors, National Scholarship Service & Fund for Negro Students - 1960-
• Member, Advisory Council, Institute of Urban Environment - 1966-
• Member, New York Academy of Public Education - 1957-
• Member, Board of Directors, N.Y. World’s Fair 1964-65 Corporation - 1959-
• Member, Board of Directors, Educational Foundation of America - 1961-65
• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (former member of National Council)(President of Southwest Division 1939-40) - 1931-
• Member, American Mathematical Society - 1931-
• Member, Mathematical Association of America (3 terms on board of Governors) (President of Southwestern Division 1938-39) - 1925-
• Member, American Society for Engineering Education (Chairman, Math. Division 1954) - 1938-
• Member, Phi Beta Kappa Association (Vice President 1961) - 1959-
• Member, Association of Symbolic Logic - 1959-
• President and Director of Prentice-Hall, Inc. - 1964-65
• Chairman of the Board, Hawthorn Books, Inc. - 1964-65
• Chairman of the Board, President & Director, Prentice-Hall of Australia, Pty.Ltd. - 1964-65
• President & Director, Prentice-Hall de Mexico, S.A. - 1964-65
• Member, Board of Directors, Executive Reports Corp. - 1964-65
• Member, Board of Directors, Institute for Business Planning, Inc. - 1964-65
• Member, Board of Directors, Parker Publishing Co., Inc. - 1964-65
• Member, Board of Directors, Prentice-Hall International, Inc. - 1964-65
• Member, Board of Directors, Prentice-Hall of Canada - 1964-65
• Member, Board of Directors, Prentice-Hall of India Private, Limited - 1964-65
• Chairman of the Board, N.Y. Institute of Finance - 1963-65
• Chairman of the Board, Center for Applied Research in Education - 1962-65
• Chairman of the Board, Laboratory for Educational Materials, Inc. - 1961-
• Chairman, Visiting Educational Com., Franklin Institute - 1963-
• Chairman, Governor’s Committee on N.J. Higher Education - 1963-
• Vice President & Trustee, Thomas Alva Edison Foundation - 1960-
• Chairman, Executive Committee, Educational Services, Inc. - 1963-64
• President, Educational Services, Inc. - 1962-63
• Member, Committee on Educational Interchange Policy, Institute of International Education - 1963-64
• Member, Advisory Committee for the National Defense Counseling and Guidance Institute Program, U. S. Govt -1960-64
• Member, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association - 1960-64
• Member, Board of Trustees, Grant Monument Association - 1957-
• Member, Board of Trustees, National Fund for Graduate Nursing Education - 1960-64
• Member, Board of Directors, Association for Middle Income Housing, Inc. - 1961-64
• Member, Board of Trustees, N. J. Educational Television Corp. - 1962-64
• Member, Board of Trustees, New York Institute of Technology - 1962-
• Member, Advisory Council of the Seven College Vocational Workshops -1963-64
• Member, Charter Member, National Honorary Advisory Council for the Institute of Latin American Studies - 1957-
• Member, Advisory Council for the Advancement of Scientific Research & Development in New York State - 1960-62
• Member, American Council on Education’s Committee on Relationships of Higher Education to the Federal Government - 1960-61
• Chairman, New York Committee of Selection for Rhodes Scholarships - 1959-62
• Board member, 1st Annual International Assembly of the U.S. Academy of TV Arts and Science - 1961
• Member, Committee for Modern Zoning - City of New York - 1959-60
• Chairman, AAU Committee on Urban Renewal - 1958-60
• Co-Chairman of the Paderewski Centennial Committee for 1960 - 1959
• Council of Higher Educational Institutions in New York City (President 1958-60) - 1958-60
• State Advisory Council on Higher Education of the University of the State of New York - 1958-62
• Member of the Board of Governors of the Hundred Year Association of New York, Inc. - 1958-61
• Member, Schools and College Committee of the United Negro College Fund, Inc. - 1958-62
• Member of National Advisory Committee for Project: “Tomorrow’s Scientists & Technicians” of National Urban League, Inc. - 1958-62
• National Commission on Accrediting - 1958-61
• Member, New York Chamber of Commerce - 1957-61
• Chairman of the Board, Town Hall, Inc. (Board member in 1956) - 1957-58
• Member, Board of Directors, Fruit of the Loom Socks Foundation - 1957-60
• President, Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York (Treasurer 1957-58, Vice President 1959-60) - 1961-62
• Policy Committee of Mathematics (War Policy committee) - 1949-52
• Advisory Board of National Scholarship Service & Fund for Negro Students - 1956-62
• Board member, International House of New York - 1956-62
• Board member, Metropolitan Educational TV Association, Inc. (Chairman 1955-58) - 1955-59
• Citizen Member, Council of the College of Home Economics of Cornell University - 1955-58
• American Council on Education Committee on TV - 1952-56
• Joint Council on Educational TV - 1952-56
• National Commission on Standards of Education & Experience for CPA’s - 1954-56
• Chairman, Teaching & History of Math., International Congress of Math - 1950
• Educational Consultant, Rinehart Publishing Co. - 1944-56
• Fellow: Cooperative Committee on General Education - 1939
• Chairman, Seminar on College Math. Teaching, University of Chicago - 1939
• Member, Canadian Mathematical Congress - 1940-

Honorary Degrees

• Ithaca College LL.D. 1951
• Alfred University Litt.D 1951
• Clarkson College of Technology Sc.D. 1951
• Wagner College LL.D. 1952
• St. Bonaventure University L.H.D. 1952
• Hofstra College L.H.D. 1953
• Manhattan College Pd.D. 1953
• Long Island University LL.D. 1954
• Canisius College LL.D. 1954
• Yeshiva University L.H.D. 1955
• Bard College L.H.D. 1955
• Pace College D.C.L. 1956
• College of Emporia L.H.D. 1957
• Hartwick College LL.D. 1957
• Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Sc.D. 1958
• Northwestern University LL.D. 1958
• TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology Scs.D 1959
• St. John’s University D.S.C. 1959
• University of Maine S.S.D. 1959
• Brooklyn Law School LL.D. 1960
• LeMoyne College L.H.D. 1961
• Elizabethtown College Sc.D. 1961
• New York University LL.D. 1962
• University of Michigan LL.D. 1974

Honor Societies

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Sigma Xi
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Sigma Tau
• Pi Gamma Mu
• Kappa Mu Epsilon
• Kappa Delta Pi
• Phi Delta Kappa
• Beta Gamma Sigma
• Sigma Sigma Omega
• Omicron Kappa Upsilon

Honors

• Pasteur Medal
• Named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the French Republic - 2/11/58

Author

• An Introduction to Mathematics. A Study of the Nature of Mathematics, 1930, University of New Mexico Press
• An Introduction to Mathematics for College Students, 1939, University of New Mexico Press
• An Introduction to College Mathematics, 1946, (Revised in 1954) Prentice-Hall, Inc.
• A Manual of Mathematics for Prospective Air Corps Cadets, 1942 (with H. D. Larsen) Prentice-Hall, Inc.
• Basic Mathematics for Pilots and flight Crews, 1943 (with H. D. Larsen) Prentice-Hall, Inc.
• Reviser: Slobin-Wilbur Freshman Mathematics, 1948, Rinehart and Company, Inc.
• Foundations and fundamental Concepts of Mathematics, 1958 (with Howard Eves) Rinehart and Company, Inc.
• A University President Speaks Out, 1961, Harper and Brothers
• Mathematical Discourses: the Heart of Mathematical Science, 1964, Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Contributor

• An American Philosophy of Education, 1942 (J.C. Knode and others) D. Van Nostrand Co. Ltd
• Our Great Heritage, 1948
• Yearbook of National Society for the Study of Education, 1952
• Contributions to educational, mathematical, and philosophical journals
• Member: Editorial Committee (and contributor), Yearbook for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Editor

• The Pentagon, 1938-40
• Member: Editorial Committee of Slaught Math. Papers (Sponsored by Math. Assoc. of America) 1942-52
• Associate Editor: American Math. Monthly, 1942-47, Editor-in-Chief, 1947-52
• A Television Policy for Education, 1952

Newsom died February 3, 1990 in Dublin, OH. Married with 3 children. Wife, Frances Jeanne Higley died June 3, 1989 in Dublin, OH

Publications

• An Introduction to Mathematics: A Study of the Nature of Mathematics, University of New Mexico Press, 1936.
• An Introduction to Mathematics for College Students, University of New Mexico Press, 1939.
• An American Philosophy of Education, Van Nostrand, 1942.
• A Manual of Mathematics for Prospective Air Corps Cadets, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1942.
• Basic Mathematics for Pilots and Flight Crews, Prentice-Hall, 1943.
• An Introduction to College Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, 1946, revised edition, 1954.
• Our Great Heritage, Harper, 1948.
• Slobin and Wilbur's Freshman Mathematics, Rinehart, 1949.
• A Television Policy for Education, American Council on Education, 1952.
• Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics, Rinehart, 1958, revised edition, 1965.
• A University President Speaks Out, Harper, 1961.
• Mathematical Discourses: The Heart of Mathematical Science, Prentice-Hall, 1964.
• The Roots of Christianity, Prentice-Hall, 1979.
• Problems Are for Solving: An Autobiography, Dorrance (Bryn Mawr, PA), 1983.