| | 1 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes  | | | | Published: | 1958 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | A called meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia was
held on this date at 10:00 A.M. in the Office of the President of the University,
at Charlottesville, with the following present. The Rector, Frank Talbott, Jr.,
President Colgate W. Darden, Jr., and Visitors Berkeley, Bryan, Coxe, Emmett,
Gravatt, Jones, Martin, Pollock, Mr. Smith, and Wheeler. Absent: Visitors Gray,
Greear, Hartfield, McWane, Paschall, and Mrs. Smith. I think we should ask the Board for permission to go ahead with some
slight increases in fees at Clinch Valley College to make increases in
faculty salaries to bring them in line with proposed increases at Mary
Washington, Longwood, etc. RESOLUTION | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 2 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1958 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | 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 |
| 3 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1958 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The Annual Meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia was held on this
date at 10:00 A. M. in the Office of the President of the University, at Charlottesville, with
the following present. The Rector, Frank Talbott, Jr., President Colgate W. Darden, Jr., and
Visitors Berkeley, Bryan, Coxe, Fenwick, Gray, Greear, Hartfield, Lantor, Montague, Jones, McWane,
Martin, Pollock, Smith, and Wheeler. Chancellor Grellet C. Simpson and Bursar Edgar E. Woodward
were present throughout consideration of Mary Washington College matters. Absent: Visitors
Paschall (who had an urgent conflicting engagement) and Smith (who was in Charlottesville,
though unwell, and participated in the work of three Board committees during the week-end) I wish to submit herewith my resignation as President of the University, to be
effective as soon as the Board has selected a new President and he is prepared to take
over the duties of this office On May 8 you requested me to find out from the local committee at Wise about what
suggestions they had on the location of the auditorium authorized by the Assembly last
winter. The committee at Wise has two recommendations first, that Mr. Charles B.
McElroy be employed as architect on the gymnasium-auditorium, second, that the gymnasium-auditorium
be located on the site between the Coeburn Road and the building now used for
faculty apartments (the Old Detention Home) I should like to recommend two changes in the present TIAA-CREF annuity program, which
should be presented to the Board if you approve. The Student Council wishes to submit the following traffic control recommendations for your
consideration I am enclosing a revised copy of the regulations governing use of motor vehicles by students
in the undergraduate schools of the University as approved unanimously by the Committee on
Undergraduates at its meeting on Friday, May 30, 1958. This meeting was also attended by Miss
Tyson from the School of Nursing and Mr. Nichols from the School of Architecture. I strongly
recommend adoption of these regulations by the Board of Visitors and propose that they take
effect with students entering in September, 1958. I feel that those sections dealing with
warning, probation, and conviction of drunken and/or reckless driving should become effective
for all undergraduate students in September, 1958 The Student Council at its meeting on May 19, 1958, unanimously passed the following
motion. To recommend that all students who register cars have compulsory insurance As you know, Prof. Vyssotsky is retiring this June. Approximately 25 years ago he
requested permission from the University to build a home near the observatory. President
Newcomb advised him that he would bring the matter to the Board of Visitors and secure a
lease for him. Mr. Vyssotsky said that he checked several times with Mr. Carruthers, who
was then Secretary of the Board, to see if any action had been taken. He was assured that
it would be forth coming and to proceed with the construction of his residence REPORT OF THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE FOR THE SESSION 1957-58 At the Annual meeting of the Trustees of McGregor Fund careful consideration was given to your
letter of April 28 and to a continuation of support of the Tracy W. McGregor Library at the
University. I am pleased to report that the Trustees appropriated $12,000 a year for each
of the five years commencing July 1, 1958, for accessions to the McGregor Library, and checks
will be forthcoming quarterly as in the past, commencing around July 1 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 4 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1958 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met on this date at 10:00 A. M. in the
Office of the President of the University, at Charlottesville, with the following present: The
Rector, Frank Talbott, Jr.; President Colgate W. Darden, Jr.; and Visitors Berkeley, Bryan, Fenwick,
Lantor, Gray, Greear, Hartfield, Montague, McWane, Martin, Pollock, Smith, and Wheeler. Absent:
Visitors Coxe, Jones, and Paschall. Chancellor Grellet C. Simpson and Bursar Edgar E. Woodward were
present throughout consideration of Mary Washington College matters. This is in reply to your letter of June 11, 1958, in which you state that in the past
college year there was a water pipe break in some of the dormitories of the College which
resulted in water damage to luggage and clothing belonging to students. You state that
you have been presented with claims from the students suffering these damages in the
amount of $275.00. You ask my advice as to whether or not these claims should be paid The Virginia Electric and Power Company has been requested to provide electric service
to the individual property owners of Westmont Subdivision, located in the southwest section
of the City of Fredericksburg. In order to provide the electric facilities it is desirable,
for the protection and safe operation of the line, to secure guying and tree clearing rights
along the west edge of the University of Virginia's property adjoining Beverly Drive, in
Westmont Subdivision. A plat of this area showing the desired right-of-way privileges is
attached for further identification | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 5 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1958 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met on this date at 10:00 A. M. in the
Office of the President of the University, at Charlottesville, with the following present. The
Rector Frank Talbott, Jr., President Colgate W. Darden, Jr., and Visitors Berkeley, Bryan, Coxe,
Fenwick, Gray, Greear, Hartfield, Jones, Lantor, McWane, Martin, Montague, Pollock, and Smith.
Absent: Visitors Paschall and Wheeler. Chancellor Grellet C. Simpson and Bursar Edgar E.
Woodward of Mary Washington College were present throughout the consideration of College matters. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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