At the first annual meeting held in New York City, May 1, of the board of trustees of the non-partisan Woodrow Wilson Foundation, President Ernest Martin Hopkins, of Dartmouth was elected president of the, board. Following the election of officers of the Foundation a large public meeting was held in the Biltmore Hotel for the purpose of celebrating the organization of the Foundation.
The other trustees of the Foundation are Franklin Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the Navy; William Allen White, noted newspaper editor and author; Cleveland H. Dodge, president of the trustees of Robert College, Constantinople, and trustee of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Roland S. Morris, former ambassador to Japan; Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor; Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey; Mary E. Woolley, president of Mt. Holyoke College; General Tasker H. Bliss, Senator T. J. Walsh, Edwin A. Alduman, May L. Simonson, Katrine Ely Tiffany, Dr. William J. Mayo, joint founder of the Mayo Foundation, and Cyrus H. McCormick, noted manufacturer and Y. M. C. A. worker.
It was also announced that a fund of over $800,000 had been raised,-the income of which is to be awarded annually to the man or institution making the most conspicuous contribution to the ideals of public service.