ABSTRACT
Lincoln University was empowered to appoint a second member of the five-member Albert C. Barnes board. A former United States ambassador to Ghana, he was a Lincoln alumnus then serving as president of the New York-based Phelps Stokes Fund, a foundation concerned with fostering educational opportunities for black Americans and Africans. The choice lay with the Barnes trustees, but who the Lincoln board nominated to take Franklin H. Williams’s seat was a crucial decision. The New York Times observed that the board risked “casting both Barnes and Lincoln in a poor light.” In June, the Lincoln president circulated a resolution among the trustees calling for a withdrawal of the petition to sell pictures, and Richard H. Glanton bowed to the wishes of his colleagues. The New York picture dealer also received a request from the chair of the Lincoln board asking him to step down as a university trustee.
