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Minutes of a meeting of the Trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art held at the residence of Mrs. Flora W. Miller at 544 East 86th Street, in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City on Thursday, June 4th, 1942, at four-thirty o'clock in the afternoon.

There were present:

Flora Whitney Miller
Juliana Force
Frank L. Crocker

Mrs. Miller was appointed chairman and called the meeting to order.

The Secretary reported that due notice of the meeting had been given to all Trustees as required by Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of the Museum, and thereupon the minutes of the immediately preceding meeting of the Trustees were read and approved.

Mrs. Miller then addressed the meeting, saying that she felt that the immeasurable loss sustained by the Museum and its Trustees in the death of her mother, its founder, on April 18th last, required no formal eulogy to be spread upon the minutes of this meeting because the greatest tribute which the Trustees could pay to Mrs. Whitney's memory would be their endeavors to carry out her aims and aspirations for the future of the Museum, but that she wished to present to the meeting for