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Wallace Buttrick was a Baptist minister who served as secretary (1903–1917), president (1917–1923), and chairman (1923–1926) of the 
General Education Board The General Education Board was a private organization which was used primarily to support higher education and medical schools in the United States, and to help rural white and black schools in the South, as well as modernize farming practices i ...
, and as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...
(1917–1926). Wallace Buttrick believed that schools, teachers, and institutions were not necessary for education however, for those who were less fortunate this served as the only medium for learning. The academic and administrative building Buttrick Hall at Agnes Scott College is named in Buttrick's honor. He is cited as a friend of the college, the opening of Buttrick Hall was celebrated May 30, 1930.
General Education Board
Wallace Buttrick, Secretary of the GEB, played a significant role in not only funding the General Board of Education but as well the reason for education.References