1942: General Education Board

An institution incorporated by an Act of Congress in 1903, 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, 1942, it appropriated approximately $2,235,000. Among the larger grants were: $250,000 to the George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., for the Division of Surveys and Field Studies; $160,000 to Meharry Medical College, Nashville, toward current expenses during the year beginning July 1, 1942; $150,000 to the University of Arkansas toward the support of land tenure studies by the Southwestern Land Tenure Research Committee; $87,400 to Purdue University for a farm-work simplification study to be conducted in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture and other agencies; $60,000 to Tuskegee Institute for development of its programs in agriculture and home economics; $35,000 to Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College for research in horticulture at the Louisiana Agricultural Experimental Station; $21,580 to the University of Virginia for use at Blandy Experimental Farm, Boyce, Va.; $75,000 to Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C., toward the completion of an administration, classroom, and laboratory building; $50,000 to the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., for the development of its library; $50,000 each to Davidson College, Davidson, N. C., and Scarritt College for Christian Workers, Nashville, Tenn., for their general support; $50,000 to Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama, toward a $200,000 sustaining fund, payable at the rate of $1.00 for every $3.00 collected by the college for this purpose; $45,000 to Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., for rehabilitation of buildings; $42,000 to Fisk University for current expenses; $40,000 to the Nashville School of Social Work for support during a three-year period; $30,000 to the Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning for construction and equipment of a community health center building and a social studies and library building for the Mississippi Negro Training School; $30,600 to the University of Tennessee toward support of an urban community laboratory for nutrition education; $24,000 to the State Department of Education of Mississippi toward support of the Coordinated School Health and Nutrition Services being conducted in cooperation with the State Board of Health; $19,600 to the Medical College of Virginia toward support of a nutrition clinic and training program; $12,250 to the Medical College of Virginia for salaries for two trained nutritionists to assist the Virginia State Nutrition Committee in its program; $17,500 to the American Baptist Home Mission Society toward the development of Benedict College, Columbia, S. C., and $100,000 toward a $200,000 endowment for the College; $17,100 to the Arkansas State Department of Education toward support of a cooperative program for the improvement of rural schools.

Officers.

The executive officers of the General Education Board during 1942 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 and Vanderbilt Webb, associate counsels. The offices of the Board are at 49 West 49th Street, New York City.