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Tuskegee Board of Trustees - July 2017 in Comparison to O Ther Universities’ Boards with a Special Attention on Chairmanship S’ Alumni Status Tuskegee Board of Trustees - July 2017 In Comparison To O ther Universities’ Boards With A Special Attention on Chairmanship s’ Alumni Status First board of commissioners The Alabama State Legislature provided a tiny appropriation and charter for the purpose of es tablishing a normal school for African Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama. Commissioners were appointed to establish the school. Lewis Adams, Thomas Dyer, and M. Bowen Swanson formed Tuskegee's first board of commissioners Lewis Adams, Tuskegee University founder, a former enslaved African American and business owner (who was able to barter the African American vote for a new normal school in Tuskegee), M.B. Swanson, a merchant and Thomas Dryer, a dry goods merchant. George W. Campbell, chairman of the board of trustees Former owner of enslaved Africans and a supporter of Lewis Adams, founder of Tuskegee University George Washington Campbell Became a member of the Tuskegee board of trustees after Thomas Dyer died. Former enslaver and banker (s enior member of the firm Campbell & Wright, at the time the oldest firm in the state of Alabama, established in 1852). In, 1871 his firm and E. T. Varner constructed the Tuskegee Railroad from Tuskegee to Chehaw. Campbell also owned an insurance brokerage and in 1882, founded the only bank in Macon County. George Washington Campbell wrote to General Armstrong, president of Hampton Institute seeking a teacher for the new school. On May 31, 1881, General Armstrong responded, “The only man I can suggest is one Mr. Booker T. Washington.” Washington accepted the job. Seth Low, chairman of the board of trustees Seth Low was at two term mayor of the then independent City of Brooklyn, New York. Low helped draft the charter consolidating Brooklyn, Manhatt an, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx into the single political entity of New York City. In 1898, the modern City of New York was formed with the consolidation . Following his tenure as mayor of Brooklyn, Low assu med the presidency of Columbia Universit y, serving between 1890 and 1901. In 1901, reformer Seth Low was elected mayor of New York City ( 92nd Mayor of New York City ) on a "fusion" ticket backed by Republicans, independents, and anti - Tammany Democrats. In 1905, he joined the board of trustee s of the Tuskegee Institute, becoming chairman of the Tuskegee board of trustees in 1907. William G. Willcox was elected in 1917 chairman of the board 1923 Dr. William J. Schieffelin 1942 Dr. William J. Schieffelin, chairm an o f the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute until 1946 William Jay Schieffelin (1866 - 1955 ), a wealthy New Yorker, who's family business, Schieffelin & Company, was one of the oldest in New York City, founded in 1794. William was the great great grand son of Jacob Schieffelin and of Hannah Lawrence. He was also the great - great grandson of Chief Justice John Jay, and a generous supporter of the Tuskegee Institute. William married Maria Louisa Vanderbilt Shephard (1870 - 1948), the daughter of Elliott Fitch Shephard and Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard. His son was William Jay Schieffelin Jr., who would later serve as board chairman of Schieffelin & Company. His grandson, William Schieffelin III, was later also a trustee of Tuskegee Institute and died in 1989 at the age of 67. William Jay Schieffelin III was the seventh generation of his family to head Schieffelin & Company. William Schieffelin III had also been a director of the New York Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Commerce and Industry Associati on of New York, a director of the New York Board of Trade and a member of the French and British - American chambers of commerce. William Jay Schieffelin's wife's mother was Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard was the eldest daughter of William Henry Vanderb ilt and Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt and granddaughter of the Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. William Henry Vanderbilt was the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a heir to his fortune. William Henry Vanderbilt was the richest American after h e took over his father's fortune in 1877 until his own death in 1885, passing on a substantial part of the fortune to his wife and children, particularly to sons: Cornelius II and William. Maria Louisa Vanderbilt Shephard's uncles were Cornelius Vanderbi lt II and younger siblings William Kissam Vanderbilt, Emily Thorn Vanderbilt, Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly, Frederick William Vanderbilt, Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb and George Washington Vanderbilt II. Basil O'Connor, chairman of the board of tr ustees Basil O'Connor served as chairman of the Tuskegee Institute Board of Trustees from 1946 - 1968 In 1927, O’Connor was recruited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to raise funds to support polio patients at Warm Springs, Georgia. O’Connor assumed the lead role of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation when Roosevelt was elected Governor of New York. In 1938, the two men formed the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), which focused on supporting research to find a solution to the problem of poliomyelitis. Under O'Connor, the NFIP, known best as "the March of Dimes," mobilized volunteers to help fund research to develop the polio vaccines that ended the polio epidemics in the US. The NFIP was renamed the March of Dimes in 1979. O’Connor w as born in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1892. He was educated at Dartmouth and Harvard Law School. In 1920 O'Connor met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was running for Vice Presid ent on the Democratic ticket. O'Connor became Roosevelt’s legal advisor. He entered into a New York based law partnership, known as Roosevelt and O’Connor; three years after Roosevelt contracted polio (1924). Roosevelt appointed O'Connor to the American Red Cross, which he served as chairman (1944 – 19 47) and president (1947 – 19 49) . 1972 - 1982 Melvin Allan Glasser Tuskegee board of trustee member appointed 1959 Elected Vice Chairman 1969 Elected chairman in 1972 He was born in New York and graduated from City College of New York. He received a master's degree in social work from the New York School of Social Work. For 2 years in the Truman administration, he was executive director of the Mid - Century White House Conference on Children and Youth. From 1951 to 1953, he was associate chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau. Served 18 years in De troit with the UAW, where he was director of the union's professional consulting staff and Social Security department. He then became executive vice president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and administrative director of the medical fie ld trials for the Salk vaccine, which became the first safe and effective anti - polio vaccine. Later, he assisted the government of Argentina in fighting a polio epidemic. Mr. Glasser was dean of development and professor at the Heller Graduate School of Ad vanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University. He also held adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health and at Yale Medical School. Melvin A. Glasser, chairman of the board of trustees Melvin A. Glass er, a former director of the Health Security Action Council who supervised th e medical field trials for the anti - polio Salk vaccine, died in 1995 at the age of 79. He was a past chairman of Tuskegee University and held adjunct faculty posts at Yale Univers ity's School of Medicine and the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. In 1963 Mr. Glasser was named director of the United Automobile Workers' social security department in Detroit, a position he held for 18 years and from which he called for a national health care plan. In 1960 he was chairman of the White House Conference for Youth, which asked President Dwight D. Eisenhower to speed the desegregation of public schools. 1968 198 0 Dr. Luther Foster r etires 1982 Dr. Andrew Brimmer Dr. Andrew Brimmer, chairman of the board of trustees Dr. Andrew Brimmer was elected to the Tuskegee University Board of Trustees in 1965 and, in 1982, became the first African American to serve as chairman of the board of Trustees at Tuskegee Un iversity . Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer on October 15 , 2010 announced his retirement as Chairman of the Tuskegee University Board of Trustees . Brimmer served as a member of the Board for 45 years — with 28 as its Chairman — making him the longest - serving Board me mber in the University’s history. Brimmer personally identified Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, fifth President of the University , in 1981 . Tuskegee University president Benjamin F. Payton announced his retirement in late March, 2009, to become effective J une 30, 2010. Dr. Payton extended his retirement date to July 31, 2010 . Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer on October 15, 2010 announced his retirement as Chairman of the Tuskegee University Board of Trustees. Retired Maj. Gen. Charles E. Williams First alumnus to be no miated chairman of the board of trustees In October 2010, Retired Maj. Gen. Charles E. Williams , who graduated from Tuskegee Institute (University) in 1960, was elected chair of the board of trustees. Gen. Williams became the first Tuskegee alu mnus to ever chair the board of trustees. His term would last until October 2015. John Page, chairman of the board of trustees Appointed to the board in 2012 and nominated chairman in 2015 In October 2015 d uring its annual fall meeting this weekend, th e Tuskegee University’s Board of Trustees elected trustee John E. Page , a non - alumnus, to serve as its chairman. He replace d retired Maj. Gen. Charles E. Williams, who was named to the board’s leadership in 2010. Page had just joined the Tuskegee board in March 2012.
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