Harry S. Truman Library Institute board meeting

Board meeting of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute. Seated (left to right) are: Tom L. Evans, chairman of the board, KCMO; David D. Lloyd, executive director, Harry S. Truman Library, Inc.; Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor, University of Kansas; former President Harry S. Truman; Elmer Ellis, president, University of Missouri; and Philip C. Brooks, director, Harry S. Truman Library. Standing (left to right) are: Rufus Burrus, attorney; James L. Sellers, professor of history, Harvard University; Robert Branyan, University of Kansas City; Francis H. Heller, associate dean, University of Kansas; Samuel P. Hays, professor of history, University of Iowa; Cyrus S. Eaton, chairman of the board, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway; Rufus Hall, University of Oklahoma; Lyman H. Butterfield, editor in chief, The Adams Papers; John Bowditch, University of Minnesota; Andrew Eaton, director of libraries, Washington University; W.D. Aeschbacher, secretary-treasurer, Mississippi Valley Historical Association; Julian P. Boyd, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson; W. Averell Harriman, former Governor of New York; Boyd Shafer, executive secretary, American Historical Association; James V. Jones, director of libraries, St. Louis University; Earl J. McGrath, executive officer, Teachers College, Columbia University; Thomas G. Blaisdell, Jr., University of California; Wayne C. Grover, Archivist of the United States; and Merle Curti, professor of history, University of Wisconsin.