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Sarnoff, Robert (NBC Television Network)
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Identifier: 1.1.0.41250
Scope and Contents of the Subseries
The subseries contains correspondence between Martin Luther King, Jr. and various individuals and organizations from 1953 to 1968. There are letters, telegrams, greeting cards, carbon copies, postcards, invitations, and hate mail. The correspondence is primarily professional often accompanied by enclosures, with few personal letters. Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal employment, education, housing, passive resistance, poverty, religion, riots, voter registration, the Vietnam War, and other social issues. There are also requests for speeches, information, visits, assistance, critiques of other writers, autographs, reprints of his work, and other invitations. Some letters praise King’s activities, offer encouragement, convey donations, and congratulate him on
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Noll has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2008, serving since 2015 as the chair of the Finance Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee. He also serves or has served on the Building, Grounds and Sustainability Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Technology Committee, among others. Noll chaired the College’s most recent Presidential Search Committee that brought President Altmann to Franklin & Marshall, as well as serving on the Presidential Search Committee that hired Daniel Porterfield. He served as Franklin & Marshall’s interim president for three months in summer 2018.
Noll lives outside Philadelphia, where he is the CEO of Context Capital Partners. During his career of nearly 30 years in financial services, he has worked at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Susquehanna International Group and as an Executive Vice President for NASDAQ and CEO of Convergex, a leadi
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Robert Sarnoff, eldest son of broadcasting mogul David Sarnoff, followed in his father's professional footsteps throughout his career at NBC and the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Contemporaries attributed Robert's corporate promotions to nepotism, and constantly drew comparisons between his executive performance and style and that of his father. During his years as company head, Robert practiced decision-making bygd consensus, displayed an obsession with corporate efficiency, and constantly sought to implement modern management techniques. David's aggressive, imperial, dynamic manner of command often overshadowed his son's practical, yet increasingly mercurial, character.
After a short stint in the magazine business, Robert Sarnoff joined NBC as an accounts executive in 1948--at a time when David Sarnoff had recently assumed chairmanship of electronics giant RCA, the parent company of NBC. Robert served in a variety of positions over the next few years, working his way up the