MEF'S Original Board of Directors as listed in 1931

Walter Damrosch

Paul D. Cravath

Harry H. Flagler

Ernest Schelling

Cornelius N. Bliss

Fritz Kreisler

Clarence H. Mackay

Ignace Paderewski

Frank L. Polk

Arturo Toscanini

Hermann Irion

Albert P. Loening

Walter W. Price

Sigmund Herzog

John Erskine

Harold Bauer 

Richard Aldrich

Samuel Chotzinoff

Harold V. Milligan

Francis Rogers

Thomas K. Finletter

Vincent Astor

Christian R. Holmes

Olga Samaroff Stokowski

August Belmont

Marcella Sembrich

Ernest Shelling

Frederick Steinway

 Yolanda Méro-Irion     

 Charles S. Guggenheimer

Alma Gluck Zimbalist

Lucrezia Bori

Elizabeth S. Polk

Chester Burden

Hulda Lashanska

Robert Littell

John B. Casserly

Ernest Hutcheson

W. L. McFarland

 Gilbert H. Montague    

Ina Dana Ross

George Barton French

Walter Damrosch

E. Coleman Savidge

George R. Siedenburg

Caspar Whitney

Elizabeth S. Crafts

Linzee Blagden 

 Wm. Francis Gibbs