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Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes  | | | | Published: | 1930 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on the above date at
8 o'clock P. M., with Visitors Buchanan, Carson, Hart, McIntire, Rinehart, Scott,
Virginius R. Shackelford, Walker, and Williams, and President Alderman present. The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia desire
to spread upon their minutes a resolution of appreciation and gratitude
to their colleague, Cyrus Harding Walker, who this evening asks to retire
from the post of Rector of the University, which he has held for
the past eight years. The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, having
learned with pleasure and gratification that Mr. Charles Steele, an
alumnus of this University, residing in the City of New York, has
had executed by the noted Russian Sculptor, Sergei Konenkov and offers
to present to the University, a bronze bust of Dr. Edwin A. Alderman,
its first President, desire to tender to Mr. Steele and to record in
the Minutes of the Board their profound appreciation of his gracious
act, and to assure him that they, on behalf of the University, will
accept and treasure this gift as a work of art by a great sculptor, as
a deserved tribute to its President, and as an additional token of the
generosity of Mr. Steele and of his loyal interest in his Alma Mater. In addition to the personal letter which it has been my
pleasure to write to you, The Rector and Visitors, at their meeting on
April 3rd, have requested me to send you their official gratitude and
appreciation of your gift of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars
for a new building for the School of Law. They direct me to assure you
of their pride in this gift and of their purpose to observe its conditions
and to devote it, unreservedly, to the uses for which it was
given. On behalf of the Board of Visitors of the University
of Virginia, and at their specific direction by resolution, I have
the pleasure and privilege of sending you an expression of their
appreciation, in order that it may form a part of the official records
of the Rector and Visitors. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 2 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1930 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at
8 o'clock P. M., being continued on the morning of the 10th. There were present Mr.
Fred W. Scott, Rector, and Visitors Buchanan, Hart, McIntire, Munford, Rinehart,
Shackelford, Walker and Williams. Judge Carson attended the meeting on the 10th, and
Messrs. Buchanan and Hart were absent at this time. I, Howard Winston, a Notary Public in and for the City and State aforesaid, do
hereby certify that Frederick W. Scott, whose name as Rector of the University of Virginia,
is signed to the foregoing writing, bearing date on the 25th day of June, 1930,
personally appeared before me this day, in my said City and in the name and on behalf of
the said The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, acknowledged the said
writing as the act and deed of the said The Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia, and made oath that he is Rector of the University of Virginia, and that the
seal affixed to said writing is the true corporate seal of the said the University of
Virginia, and that it has been affixed thereto by due authority. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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