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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the United Negro College Fund in the Oval Office. Left to right: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Waddell and Reed, Inc., Chauncey L. Waddell; investment banker from New Orleans, Louisiana, Edgar B. Stern, Jr.; President of the United Negro College Fund and President of the Tuskegee Institute, Luther H. Foster (mostly hidden behind Mr. Stern); Editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Edward A. “Ted” Weeks; Headmaster of the Commonwealth Schools of Boston, Massachusetts, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, Charles Merrill, Jr. (in back); former Vice President and General Counsel of the Ford Motor Company, William T. Gossett; President Kennedy; Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund, William J. Trent, Jr.; President of the Phelps-Stokes Fund and Founder of the United Negro College Fund of New York, Frederick D. Patterson; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tuskegee Institute, Basil O'Connor. White House, Washington, D.C.