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.

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.

1940: General Education Board

The General Education Board is 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.' Its present program is restricted largely to the support of three types of work: (1) education in the Southern States; (2) research and experimentation in relation to the problems presented in the field of general education, i.e., the secondary school through the junior college level; (3) a program in child growth and development. In 1941 the Board will terminate its work in the fields of general education and child growth and development. During the year 1940 the Board made appropriations approximating $6,500,000.

Southern Education.

Grants for southern education included the following: to Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, $3,700,000 toward endowment, and $160,000 toward the current expenses of the College and the Hospital; to Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina, $200,000 toward endowment; to Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Alabama, $60,000 for enlargement of the plant and equipment of the School of Agriculture; to the University of North Carolina, $60,000 to the Department of Chemistry for apparatus, equipment, and organic materials, and for a study of new sources of tanning materials; to Fisk University, Nashville, $50,000 for teaching and research; to the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, $48,800 toward the support of a Bureau of Industrial Research; to Clark University, Atlanta, $50,000 for the purchase of a new site.

General Education.

Grants in the field of general education were as follows: to Teachers College, Columbia University, $67,200 for support of the program of science teaching of the Bureau of Educational Research in Science, and $50,000 toward expenses incurred by the Congress on Education for Democracy; to the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association of the United States, $65,000 for general support and $10,000 for its program of education for civic responsibility; to the National Association of Secondary School Principals, $24,750 for support of a study of occupational adjustment; to the University of California, $61,700 for support of the study of adolescent development being conducted by its Institute of Child Welfare; to the American Council on Education, $40,000 toward support of the cooperative study in general education at the junior college level; to Stanford University, $40,000 for support of its program in social studies.

Officers.

The executive officers of the General Education Board during 1940 were: Ernest M. Hopkins, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Raymond B. Fosdick, President; Albert R. Mann, Vice-President; William W. Brierley, Secretary; Edward Robinson, Treasurer; George J. Beal, Comptroller; Thomas M. Debevoise, Counsel; Chauncey Belknap, Associate Counsel; Albert R. Mann, Director for Southern Education; Robert J. Havighurst, Director for General Education. The offices of the Board are at 49 West 49th Street, New York City.

1939: 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 total amount received by the Board in gifts and the accretion thereof, exclusive of income from investments, was $179,756,000. The Board is empowered to expend the principal as well as the income from these funds. The present program is restricted largely to three types of work: (1) the support of research and experimentation in relation to the problems presented in the field of general education, i.e., the secondary school through the junior college level; (2) the continuance of the existing program in the Southern states; and (3) a program, now coming to a close, in child growth and development. At the end of the year 1938 the Board's unappropriated assets amounted to $23,907,761, of which the major portion was definitely earmarked for programs already undertaken, leaving a free balance of about $8,336,000.

During the year ended Dec. 31, 1939, appropriations approximating $3,814,000 were made by the Board. Some of the larger of these were as follows:

General Education.

To the American Council on Education: $442,000 for the work of its Commission on Teacher Education, $373,480 for the programs of its American Youth Commission, $95,000 for its general expenses, and $47,000 for the preparation of materials for the White House Conference on Children in a Democracy. To the Progressive Education Association, $105,905 for its service program. To Ohio State University, $165,000 for support of a study of school broadcasting. To the Art Institute of Chicago, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Institute, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, a total of $89,300 to further cooperation of these institutions with secondary schools. To the American Association of Junior Colleges, $25,000 for a study of terminal education at the junior college level; to the National Association of Secondary School Principals, $24,600 for a study of occupational adjustment; to Teachers College, Columbia University, $32,800 for a program of science teaching of the Bureau of Educational Research in Science; to Bennington College, $58,700 for a study of their experience in the field of general education for their guidance and that of other colleges.

Southern Education.

To the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, $50,000 for a study by its Commission on Curricular Problems and Research; to the State Department of Education of Virginia, $36,600 toward support of a cooperative project for the revision of the State high school curriculum; to the University of North Carolina, $47,000 for agricultural research at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering; to Duke University, $45,000 for studies of industrial problems related to the economic development of the South; to Clemson Agricultural College, $25,300 for a study of the place of small-scale enterprises in the social and economic development of the rural South; to the University of the South, $25,000 for repairs, furnishings, and general equipment for the science building and for laboratory equipment; and to the University of Mississippi, $25,000 for books and periodicals for the library. For the salaries and travel expenses of state agents for rural schools for Negroes in the Southern states during 1939-40, $140,000; to the Board of Control of the State Institutions of Higher Learning of Florida, $35,000 for constructing and equipping a library building for Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes; to Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, $160,000 for current expenses of the Medical School and Hospital; to the University of Chicago, a final grant of $75,000 toward the support of instruction of Negroes in the clinical branches of medicine in Provident Hospital; to Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, $53,000 for current expenses while endowment is being raised.

The executive officers of the General Education Board during 1939 were: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (to April 6, 1939) and Ernest M. Hopkins (from April 6, 1939), Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Raymond B. Fosdick, President; Albert R. Mann, Vice-President; William W. Brierley, Secretary; Edward Robinson, Treasurer; George J. Beal, Comptroller; Thomas M. Debevoise, Counsel; Chauncey Belknap, Associate Counsel; Albert R. Mann, Director for Southern Education; Robert J. Havighurst, Director for General Education. The offices of the Board are at 48 West 49th Street, New York City.

1938: 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.' John D. Rockefeller's gifts to the General Education Board, together with smaller gifts from other sources, amounted to approximately $179,754,000. The Board is empowered to expend the principal as well as the income from these funds. The present program is restricted largely to three types of activity: first, the continuance of the existing program in the southern states; second, the support of research and experimentation in relation to the problems presented in the field of general education, i.e., the secondary school through the junior college level; and third, a program, now coming to a close, in child growth and development. At the end of the year 1937 the unappropriated assets amounted to $28,000,000, of which the major portion was definitely earmarked for programs already undertaken, leaving a free balance of funds of approximately $8,700,000.

During the year ended Dec. 31, 1938, appropriations approximating $7,350,000 were made for purposes within the present program of the Board and to bring to a close certain other undertakings under previous programs. Some of the larger grants were made for the following projects: American Council on Education, for conferences, studies, and research, $695,000; the Tulane University of Louisiana, for endowment of its School of Medicine, and for cataloguing additions to the university library, $461,000; fellowships, $215,000; Progressive Education Association, for its service program and researches, $203,120; University of California, for a child-guidance study in its Institute of Child Welfare, $190,000; Meharry Medical College, towards the current expenses of its school and hospital, $160,000; state departments of education in southern states, for traveling expenses and salaries of state agents for rural schools for Negroes, $140,000.

The principal executive officers of the General Education Board during 1938 were: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Raymond B. Fosdick, President; David H. Stevens (resigned, June 30) and Albert R. Mann, Vice-president: William W. Brierley, Secretary; Lefferts M. Dashiell (died, Feb. 28) and Edward Robinson, Treasurer; George J. Beal, Comptroller. The offices of the Board are at 49 West 49th Street, New York City.