1941: General Education Board

An institution incorporated by an act of Congress in 1913, with the stated object of promoting education within the United States of America without distinction of race, sex, or creed. The present program of the Board is restricted almost entirely to the support of educational work in the Southern states.

The Board is empowered to spend the income and the principal of its funds. During the year ended Dec. 31, 1941, it appropriated approximately $900,000. Among the larger donations were: $160,000 to Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., for the current expenses of the College and the hospital; $50,000 to Paine College, Augusta, Ga., for the construction and equipment of a library building; $47,000 to Fisk University, Nashville, for current expenses; $43,935 to Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Medical College for teaching and research in agricultural economics and research in rural sociology; $35,000 for summer school projects and special conferences related to Board programs in southern education; $32,100 to the University of Arkansas for research in farm forestry; $30,000 to the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for support of work conferences on higher education and evaluation of experimental secondary school programs; $30,000 to the University of Tennessee for research in farm forestry in Tennessee; $25,900 to the Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning of the State of Mississippi for the State teacher training program; $25,250 to Clark College, Atlanta, for equipment for its physics laboratory; $25,000 to Duke University for a study in forest ecology by the School of Forestry; $25,000 to the University of Texas for the construction and equipment of a marine biological laboratory; $25,000 to Tulane University for the development of its library, primarily for strengthening the graduate and research collections; $25,000 to Vanderbilt University for research in the natural sciences; $25,000 to Furman University, Greenville, S. C., for the development of its library; $22,120 to the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes for improvement of instruction and administration in higher institutions, and $7,250 for a workshop on secondary education to be held at Hampton Institute; $17,500 to the Boy Scouts of America for support of work of the Committee on Inter-Racial Scouting; $15,000 to Baylor University, Waco, Texas, for the development of a program in dramatics; $15,000 to Dillard University, New Orleans, for the purchase of medical and surgical equipment for the Flint-Good-ridge Hospital; $14,600 to the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction for support of summer training courses for whites and Negroes in connection with a program in public health education and school health service.

Officers.

The executive officers of the General Education Board during 1941 were: Ernest M. Hopkins, chairman of the board of trustees; Raymond B. Fosdick, president; Albert R. Mann, vice-president and director; William W. Brierley, secretary; Edward Robinson, treasurer; George J. Beal, comptroller; Thomas M. Debevoise, counsel; Chauncey Belknap, associate counsel. The offices of the Board are at 49 West 49th Street, New York City. See also EDUCATION.