Board of Visitors minutes June 16, 2000 | ||
NAMING OF THE NEW RESIDENCE HALL ON ALDERMAN ROAD IN HONOR OF MR. T. BRAXTON WOODY
The following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS, Thaddeus Braxton Woody, a native of Petersburg and an alumnus of the University of Virginia, joined the faculty in 1928 as Assistant Professor of Romance Languages; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Woody was recognized in numerous ways both for his superb teaching and for his support of the Jeffersonian precepts of close relations between faculty and students, as exemplified in the concept of the "academical village;" and
WHEREAS, Mr. Woody was an Assistant Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and the Chair of the faculty committee which in 1968 recommended unrestricted undergraduate coeducation; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Woody died on January 9, 2000;
RESOLVED that the new first year dormitory under construction behind the Alderman Road dormitories be named Woody House in honor of Thaddeus Braxton Woody.
Board of Visitors minutes June 16, 2000 | ||