Directors' and trustees' meeting minutes subseries consists of records of the minutes of the Woodlawn Company and Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. The materials include references to actions that affirm the Company's original mission, minutes discussing significant Woodlawn property holdings and events, correspondence, financial statements, and reports and updates about important Woodlawn endeavors. It also includes the papers of Elke E. McGinley, Woodlawn's executive secretary, and Lynn W. Williams, former President and Chairman of the Woodlawn Board of Directors, that further contain directors' and trustees' meeting notes, reports, proposals, financial statements, and correspondence.

Also included are minutes of meetings of the Woodlawn Trustees and significant board papers and correspondence. This includes information about directors' and trustees' term dates, agendas, Officer's reports, President's reports, twenty-five-year reports, income statements, annual meetings of Woodlawn Trustees-PENNA, Inc., cash flow projections, land appraisal reports, newspaper clippings, Ritter site proposal, tenant transfers, property inspections, "Status of the Flats as a Woodlawn Object" reports, building rentals income analysis, property vacancies, move-ins, and move-outs, "Background of the Acquisition of the Rocky Run Natural Area on the Breger Tract" report, "Report on the Establishment of the Woodlawn Investment Company," by-laws, copy of the Certificate of Incorporation of Woodlawn, Citizens Housing Corporation (CHC) and "Flats" information, master plans for Brandywine Hundred lands, Kirkwood Properties, Inc. information, Wilmington Trust Company account statements, executive committee meetings, and committee presentations.

The board papers of Elke E. McGinley and Lynn W. Williams generally consist of board correspondence, meeting minutes, reports to the board, cash flow budgets and projections, newspaper clippings, consolidated financial statements, agricultural leases, reports to trustees on the objects of Woodlawn, list of rents and estimates of market values for Woodlawn properties, property photographs, Wilmington Trust statements, Brandywine Commons Phase II Retail Center update, proposed option agreement between Woodlawn and Stolz Management, Rockland Mills and Lynthwaite Tract information, Lynn W. Williams' Notes on Governance, Woodlawn employee handbook, and a Bancroft Bridgeway proposal.