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Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1958) April 12, 1958  | | | | Published: | 1958 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met on this date at 10:00
A.M. in the Office of the Chancellor of Mary Washington College, at Fredericksburg,
with the following present. The Rector, Frank Talbott, Jr.; President Colgate W.
Darden, Jr., and Visitors Berkeley, Bryan, Greear, Hartfield, McWane, Martin,
Pollock, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Smith, and Wheeler. Chancellor Grellet C. Simpson and
Bursar Edgar E. Woodward were present throughout the consideration of Mary
Washington College matters. Absent: Visitors Coxe, Emmett, Gravatt, Gray, Jones,
and Paschall. I note that a copy of Mr. Minor's opinion concerning the authority
of the Board to reduce the library fee has been sent to you. Based on
this opinion, I should like to recommend that the Board be asked this
Saturday to reduce the library fee from the present $20.00 to $6.00, and
that it be made applicable to all students enrolled. Based on the
estimated enrollment next session of 5,000, this will yield $30,000, an
amount more than adequate to cover the principal and interest charges. May I take this opportunity to submit the attached proposal for
revising the statement of fees on pages 34 and 35 in the catalogue of
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. If these proposals meet with
your approval, would you please submit them to the Board for their
action if this is necessary. I enclose copy of Mr. William Hanckel's letter concerning the
above property. Mr. O'Grince and I have examined the property and
recommend that the Board of Visitors be requested to authorize the
purchase of the property, under the terms set forth in Mr. Hanckel's
letter. Confirming our conversation of today, Mrs. Bowles would like to
work out an arrangement whereby she would sell the University 39 acres
less 9.818 acres. This 9.818 acres she will agree to sell the
University when she desires to upon giving the University 90 day notice. Your special committee on the Paunch issue of The Spectator submits
its report herewith. You asked us to determine whether or not this issue
of The Spectator discredited the name of the University of Virginia, and
if so, whether to a degree sufficient to warrant your bringing the matter
before the Student Council. I send you this note to confirm the views expressed to you in our
talk a few days ago about the Spectator. Since Mr. Carlson, the Editor,
is not eligible to continue the direction of the magazine, because of
academic probation, you will be required to appoint a new editor and
approve the staff selected by him. In doing this I wish you to bear in
mind that though you act as the Board chosen by the Jefferson Society
which owns Spectator, you act also as representatives of the University.
In fact as in the public understanding, a magazine published by a student
group at the University, using University buildings and under the control
of a society of the University with long and distinguished history, has
an important sanction from the University. The public may with reason
judge the University accordingly. The University's reputation is dear to
all of us who serve it and love it. It is not the property of one small
group to be dealt with in the uncontrolled judgment of that group,
however honest that judgment may be. Our mutual friend and benefactor, Mrs. Preston Davie, has now given
each of our institutions a work of art. To the University in 1956 came a
small (25 3/8″h × 19 1/2″w) portrait of Raleigh, and to the Museum in
1957, a larger (45″h × 32 1/2″w) portrait of Burke. The official
appraisals by French and Company are. Raleigh $7,500, Burke $8,500. I
enclose photographs of each portrait. 1. The Board of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation has recently adopted the following resolution. That there be
established "not later than the college year 1959-60 the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Fellowships paying $1,500.00 per annum plus
tuition, in general along the lines set forth in the Memorandum of July
10, 1957, from Mr. Oron J. Hale, Chairman of the Department of History,
to Mr. Colgate W. Darden, Jr., President of the University, and
contribute up to $5,000.00 per year towards such Fellowships, with the
understanding that this Foundation would match the amount put up by the
University up to $5,000.00 and would, if Fellows of the desired type in
sufficient number can be obtained, put up additional amounts, it being
contemplated that the Foundation would in such case contribute at least
$15,000.00 per year towards the expense of these Fellowships and quite
possibly even more in the future." 1. The Corcoran Department of History recommends appointment
of Dr. Dumas Malone as Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History,
effective July 1, 1959, and that during the session 1958-1959, when Dr.
Malone will be on sabbatical leave from Columbia University, he be
appointed Visiting Professor of History in the University of Virginia.
The terms of the appointment are those stated in the "Resolution For The
Board of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation," of
which paragraph one specifies the grants and salary to be paid to
Professor Malone by the Foundation. Salary and Foundation grants will
amount to $15,000 annually. I concur with the Department of History in recommending that Dr.
Dumas Malone be appointed Visiting Professor of History, without salary,
for the academic year 1958-59 beginning July 1, 1958. During this
time, Dr. Malone will be on sabbatical leave from Columbia University.
It is my understanding that he will receive a supplemental research
grant from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. I transmit to you the recommendation of the Corcoran Department of
History, with my concurrence, that Dr. Dumas Malone be appointed Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Professor of History effective July 1, 1959, for a
term of three years, at a twelve month salary of $7,500 per year. I take pleasure in quoting the resolution unanimously adopted at a
meeting of the University of Virginia Law School Foundation October 11,
1957, as follows Professional Leave for Graduate Study | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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