1890-1968
Foundation Executive and Behavioral Scientist

Foundations.

Anthropologist Margaret Mead said in her obituary of Lawrence K. Frank that he "used [philanthropic] foundations the way the Lord meant them to be used." Frank grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received his B.A. degree in economics from Columbia University in 1912. As a graduate student he met Columbia economist Wesley C. Mitchell, who with his wife, the educator Lucy Sprague Mitchell, became friends and influential mentors of Frank.