The Honorable Wayne-Chatfield
Taylor was the former Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury. A graduate of Yale University, Taylor was the president
of the Export-Import Bank of Washington from 1945-46. He later became the
economic advisor to Paul G. Hoffman in setting up the European Cooperation
Administration, and was also the economic advisor to the European Recovery
Program after World War II. He had served as an advisor to John Hartigan
in the planning of his Foreign Service Career School for Dickinson College
since the beginning of 1948, along with Hallam Tuck, the Executive Secretary
of the International Refugee Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.1
Wayne Taylor was a trustee of the Christian Herter School on Foreign Educational
Foundation, which merged with Johns Hopkins University in the late 1940’s.2
He gave the Buchanan Day Address at Dickinson on April 23, 1948 during
which he praised the Marshall Plan. Taylor was also given an honorary
degree for his work as a public servant from Dickinson College under President
William Edel on May 5, 1949.3
Hon. Wayne Chatfield Taylor,
advisor to John Hartigan. Photograph Courtesy of Dickinson
College Special Collections.
1. 175th Anniversary of Dickinson College: Drop
File. Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
2. Letter from William Edel to John Hartigan:
President's Files. 5 June, 1951. Dickinson College Archives
and Special
Collections, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, RG2, Box 3, Folder 13 (Hartigan Correspondence).
3. 175th Anniversary of Dickinson College: Drop
File. Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
