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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1918) November 26, 1918  | | | | Published: | 1918 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A call meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held
on this date at 8 o'clock in the evening with the following
members present: The Rector, R. T. Irvine, and Visitors
Goodrich Hatton, Judge J. K. M. Norton, C. Harding Walker,
G. R. B. Michie, and John Stewart Bryan, and President
Alderman. On behalf of the Beverley Club of Staunton, Va.,
of which he was a charter member and its first President,
in 1890, I have the pleasure of presenting to the
University of Virginia an oil portrait of Mr. Armistead
C. Gordon, the University's late Rector. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your
communication of the 19th inst. informing me of the
purpose of the Beverley Club, of Staunton, to present
to the University of Virginia an oil portrait of the
University's late Rector, Hon. Armistead C. Gordon. I
note also the request that this portrait be hung on the
walls of the Colonnade Club. As an Alumnus of the University may I ask your
kind assistance in placing in the proper hands a small
contribution to the Permanent Endowment Fund of the
Institution. I enclose for this purpose a Liberty Bond
for five hundred dollars and shall be greatly obliged to
you for your compliance with my request. The fall meeting of the Rector and
Visitors of the University occurred here on November
26th. I had the honor of presenting your letter of
last July, in which you so generously and graciously
give to the permanent endowment fund of the University
the Libert Bond # 665635. The Rector and Visitors
directed me to extend to you their very grateful thanks
and appreciation of this splendid action, and to assure
you of their purpose to use this money in the permanent
endowment of the University for the best interests of
the Institution. I must again express my appreciation
of the peculiarly handsome way in which you have done
this good deed. The will of Elizabeth B. White, who died in
Baltimore on November 13th, 1917, provides in paragraph
three of item number one that the sum of Five Thousand
Dollars be given to the University of Virginia for the
establishment of scholarships to be known as the ELIZABETH
B. GARRETT SCHOLARSHIPS. Be it Resolved by the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia, THAT the legacy of Elizabeth B.
White of $5000 to found the Elizabeth B. Garrett Scholarships
at the University of Virginia be and the same is
hereby gratefully accepted upon the terms and conditions
as set forth in her will. From: Edwin A. Alderman, President, University of Virginia: From: Edwin A. Alderman, President, University of Virginia; Major Frederick Waugh Smith notified his brother, Col.
Thomas Smith, and the University of Virginia that he intended
to contest the will on the grounds of the uncertainty of its
provisions, but at the same time he made a proposition of compromise. On November 18th, 1910 you kindly granted permission
to the Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway
Company, of Charlottesville, Virginia, a corporation duly
chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia, to lay
its track along the terrace west of what is known as Rugby
Road, from the Ivy Road on the South to the C. & O. overhead
bridge on the North, distance of 1050 feet: to be laid
under the general supervision and direction of the President
and Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings of the
University of Virginia, and the Chairman of the Executive
Committee of our Board, with the condition that the track
and works of the company be removed at their own expense
on 60 days notice from the Board, at the pleasure of the
Board. This is to advise you that my recent examination
of your accounts for the fiscal year ended June 30th,
1918, disclosed no irregularities of any kind, but on
the other hand, your records were found to be correct. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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