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Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1915) April 30, 1915  | | | | Published: | 1915 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Pursuant to call of the Rector, the Board met on this date at 2 o'cl
p.m., with the following members present: Armistead C. Gordon, Recto
Goodrich Hatton, J. W. Craddock, G.R.B. Michie and Dr. W. F. Drewry.
President Alderman was also in attendance. The President announced
the following gifts to the University: I am writing for my Aunt to enclose
her check for Ten Thousand Dollars. She would like this
gift to be a continuation of her former gift for the
gate to be used for the improvement of the roads,
and in memory of Mr. Senff. I am very, very sorry that you cannot be with
me on Founder's Day, but I shall count most confidently on
having you in my home as my guest to see this place before many
months have gone by. Mr. Langhorne, of course, will want
you, but you must be with me for some portion of your time
here. I have just received and read with great
happiness and satisfaction your letter of March 23. I feel
sure that I can with entire propriety and satisfaction
treat the arrangement you suggest as a donation of $50,000,
and will be most happy so to do. It would be difficult for
me to tell you how much real strength and helpfulness you
are giving to the University of Virginia by this gift, supplying,
as it will undoubtedly do, a need so urgent and acute
that I have been at my wit's end to know what to do to care
for it. I am very glad to learn by your letter of
March 27th that my proposition to make the donation of
$50,000. in the form of a check for $25,000. and my note
for the same amount due and payable on or before January 5th,
1916, is satisfactory to you. About the 7th or 8th of April
I will send the check and note on to you. In the meantime I
will be glad if you will write me whether the whole of the gift
will likely be used for a single building and what part, if
any, will be used for laboratory equipment. I am, of course,
greatly pleased at the thought of being helpful to the University
at a time when its need is urgent. I note by your letter of March 31st that the
whole of my gift to the University will be applied to a laboratory
for chemistry. This is entirely agreeable to me and I
think now I shall, within two or three days, send you my check
for $50,000. instead of a check for $25,000. and a note for the
same amount. In compliance with my recent promise to
you I take pleasure in enclosing herewith my check # 66,
on Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, to your order, for $50,000.
This is a gift outright to the University of Virginia. I
understand it is your purpose to use the proceeds of this
check towards the erection of a building for a chemical
laboratory. In the purpose for which the donation is to be
used, in the fact that the donation is to the University
of Virginia, in the certainty that a large part of such
benefits as will come from the gift will go to the South,
my most earnest desires are fully met and under such conditions
I feel it a privilege to be able to make the donation. My
original plan was to make this gift on the occasion of your
return to the University last fall from your long illness but
the War interfered with my intentions. Your unselfish spirit
will, I know, excuse the delay. As Secretary of the Board of Trustees under the
deed of the late Samuel Miller I am directed to say that at
a meeting of the Board held this morning Mr. Ivey F. Lewis,
of the University of Missouri was unanimously nominated
to the Board of Visitors to fill the Chair made vacant by
the resignation of Professor Albert H. Tuttle in the School
established under the provisions of the deed of Samuel Miller.
I am directed by the Board to request you to lay this nomination
before the Board of Visitors of the University of
Virginia for their action. RESOLVED: That this Board will at its June, 1915 meeting
make appropriation of the fund at its disposal, and in making
the nomination for the Chair made vacant by the resignation of
Professor Albert H. Tuttle it is the sense of this Board that
the Department of which the newly nominated Professor is to be
the head if elected by the Board of Visitors - should be reorganized
by the latter Board so as to carry out as far as
practicable with the fund available, the purposes of Mr. Miller,
and that this Board will hereafter proceed to appropriate the
entire net income of the Miller Fund to the support of the department
of which the new professor is to be the head. Some eight years ago, I notified the University that
in drafting my will I had inserted a clause bequeathing it
the sum of thirty thousand (30,000) dollars; the purpose of
the gift being the erection of a teaching building on the
grounds of the University; and that I had made this bequest
in response to a feeling of deep gratitude to the University
for the inestimable service it did for me during my student
days of long ago. I have your letter of April 3rd and thank you
for the kind expressions, &c. By an instrument in writing purporting to be a deed,
and dated May 10th, 1912, John Armstrong Chaloner states that
thereby he conveys certain real estate situated at Roanoke
Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina, to the University
of Virginia, and the University of North Carolina, jointly,
reserving to himself a life estate therein; and this instrument
is recorded in the Clerk's Office of Albemarle
County, Virginia, in Deed Book 150, page 136. The regular annual meeting of the Board of Visitors
was held on this date with the following present: Armistead
C. Gordon, Rector, Goodrich Hatton, R. Tate Irvine, John W.
Craddock, Wm. H. White, G. B. R. Michie, Dr. W. F. Drewry,
Walter Tansill Oliver and Dr. Frank W. Lewis. I want to donate one thousand dollars to the
University because of my loyalty to her, and for what
she stands and has done - not that that sum is the measure
of my estimate of her worth or my admiration. I learn from the Bursar that the new schedule
of fees in Engineering announced in the catalogue will
have to receive your formal approval and be validated
by action of the Board of Visitors before it is put
into force. A special Committee of three appointed by the
Executive Committee of the General Alumni Association
to consider, with power to act, the question of financing
the Secretary of the Alumni Association and his office,
begs leave to announce to the Board of Visitors that it
has decided to recommend to the Alumni Association that
it guarantee the sum of $2500.00 yearly for three years,
which with the $1500.00 a year appropriated by the Board
of Visitors for the same purpose and which we assume will
be continued, will make $4000.00 a year, the sum estimated
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