{"value"=>"<p>The Trustee sub-series for the Patterson years (1953-1969) includes a complete set of minutes of board and Executive Committee meetings as well as scattered Finance, Housing, and Education Committee minutes. There is also supporting material for board meetings as well as administrative correspondence such as notices of meetings. There are a number of folders concerning the November 1961 board meeting which was held in Ghana during a Board of Trustees' trip to West Africa commemorating the Fund's fiftieth anniversary.</p> <p>Discussions scattered throughout the minutes reflect the Fund's continuing interest in scholarships for African students, professional exchange visits with African scholars, and education in the southern United States. They also concern many new projects initiated with government and foundation support during the turbulent 1950s and 1960s, including the Cooperative College Development Program, the Aggrey Fellowship Program, the Intercollegiate Assembly, conferences at the Moton Memorial Conference Center at Capahosic, Virginia, the Project for the Improvement of Instruction in Secondary Schools in the South, and the Special Project on the Identification and Placement of Negro Talent (Talent Study).</p> <p>Other discussions concern the 1957 resignation of Frederick L. Rowe as executive secretary and the hiring of Wilton L. Dillon as his replacement, the change in Fund officers titles in 1958, the celebration of the Fund's fiftieth anniversary in 1961-1962, and the retirement of Frederick D. Patterson and search for a successor. Individual trustees files include correspondence from influential board members such as Claude A. Barnett, Ralph J. Bunche, George Carpenter, Lansdell Christie, Rufus Clement, Guy B. Johnson, Emory Ross, Carl Rowan, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes II, Juan Trippe, and Chauncey Waddell.</p>"}