Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1918 — THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION [ARTICLE]

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

The Rockefeller Foundation, at its annual meeting just held, appropriated >187,281 for war work. Of this sum $126,000 is to continue the War Demonstration Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute, $50,000 for the work of the Medical Division of the National Research Council of the Council of National Defense, and $12,281 for other medical war research and relief work. > George E. Vincent, chairman; Wallace Buttrick, Simon Flexner, Starr J. Murphy, Wickliffe Rose and Edwin R. Embree, Secretary, were elected as members of the Executive Committee for 1918.

The Finance Committee was elected to consist of A. Barton Hepburn, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Frederick Strauss. Dr. Herman M. Biggs, New York State Commissioner of Health, was elected a member of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. The following Trustees were pressent at the apnual meeting of the Foundation: Wallace Buttrick, Simon Flexner, A. Barton Hepburn, Charles Evans Hughes, Harry Pratt Judson, Starr J. Murphy, Wickliff Rose, Julius Rosenwald, Frederick Strauss and George E. Vincent. Anyone wishing to see me will find me in the Trust & Savings Bank oa Saturday afternoons.—H. O. Harris, phone 134.