The first meeting of the board of trustees is held May 22. John D. Rockefeller Jr., age 39, is elected president.

Though a trustee, “Senior” does not attend this or any other future meeting of the Foundation’s board, following a pattern he established with previous philanthropies. He explained, “I have not had the hardihood even to suggest how people, so much more experienced and wise in those things than I, should work out the details even of those plans with which I have had the honor to be associated.”