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ALBERT VAUGHAN CASE MEMORIAL

President Darden presented to the Board a letter from Albert H. Case, as follows

Mr. Colgate W. Darden, President
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Dear Mr. Darden

In order that you might better understand our present desire to perpetuate the memory of
our son who attended the University of Virginia, I am making the following written request for
the use of the funds donated under contract of May 12, 1950, which funds become available for
use to the University of Virginia after the death of both Mrs. Case and myself

We would like very much to have one-half of this fund designated for the Alderman Library,
the income from which to be used for the purchase of books for the Alderman Library of the
University of Virginia. The books purchased with this fund are to be selected in the area
of the humanities, and more specifically, in the fields of ancient and modern languages,
English and Philosophy. We wish that to each book purchased from this fund there be affixed
a suitable book plate indicating that it derived from funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Albert
H. Case in the memory of their son, Albert Vaughan Case

The other half of this fund we would be pleased to have used to establish scholarships
in the Law School in memory of our son and to be designated as Albert Vaughan Case Scholarship.
These scholarships are to be awarded annually from the income of this fund to students
in the Law School who, in the judgment of the Faculty give promise of making outstanding
contribution to the service of our country and its people. In making the appointments,
the Faculty is directed to consider diligence and ability in professional studies and high
moral character evidencing broad Christian idealism.

We would appreciate your advising us whether or not such designations can be made of the
funds donated under the contract referred to above.

Sincerely yours,
/s/ A. H. Case
Albert H. Case
AHC/blg

The Board adopted the following resolution.

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that the funds donated to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Case under contract dated
May 12, 1950 shall be known as the Albert Vaughan Case Memorial Fund, that when the income
from this Fund shall become available for use by the University after the death of both Mr. and
Mrs, Case, such income shall. (1) Be divided equally between the Alderman Library and the School
of Law, and (2) Be expended for the purposes and in the manner set forth by Albert H. Case in
his letter of November 25, 1953, addressed to President Colgate W. Darden and spread upon the
minutes of this Board.