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Fellowship Established
The family of Houston A. Baker, Sr., WG’37, one of the first
African Americans to earn an MBA from Wharton, has
established a fellowship in his honor.
Baker, who also earned a master’s degree in hospital
administration from Northwestern University, spent much
of his career working for hospitals, primarily in the areas of
budgeting and development. During the 1940s and early
‘50s he played a major role in establishing and directing a
Red Cross Hospital in Louisville, Ky., (his birthplace) to
provide health care services to African Americans.
Over the next two decades, he played a similar role in
helping to assure quality health care for African Americans
at the former Freedman’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and
at Howard University Hospital, which replaced Freedman’s.
Baker served on a number of hospital, church and civic
boards until his death in 1983.
The fellowship will be funded with gifts from the Baker
family — including Houston A. Baker, Jr., Albert M. Greenfield
Professor of English at Penn — and friends.
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