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 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1930) April 3, 1930  
 Published:  1930 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 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.
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