 | Board of Visitors minutes February 14, 1947 |  |
MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE MATTERS:
Elections: It is recommended that the following action be taken:
RESOLVED, by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that Mr. Frederick Ashton Stoutamire, Jr. be and he is hereby elected substitute Instructor in English
for the remainder of the current session, at a salary of $240 a month, incumbency to begin on January 13,
1947. This is the replacement to succeed Assistant Professor Phineas P. Wright who resigned the latter
part of December.
RESOLVED, by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that Mrs. Sarah Vernon Hodges be and she is hereby elected substitute Instructor in Dramatic Arts for the
remainder of the current session, at a salary of $250 a month, incumbency to begin on February 1, 1947.
This is the replacement to succeed Assistant Professor Paul J. Ritter who resigned at the end of the
first semester of the current session.
The following report of Mrs. Wailes Committee was presented and adopted:
University of Virginia
The Committee on Mary Washington met at the College on January 23, 1947. Present were Mrs.
Wailes, Mrs. Willis and Judge Garnett, also the chancellor, Dr. Newcomb, President Combs, and Dean Alvey.
The Committee approved the recommendations made by President Combs of salary increases for
certain members of the faculty as submitted to the Board on January 10, 1947 with the following additions:
Dorothy Duggan, Associate Professor of Art, from $3,011.20 to $3,311.00, and Dr. Paul Haensel, Professor
of Economics, from $3,168.00 to $3,468.00. These increases amount to $599.80. However, the
sum of $758.80 was released by the resignation of Dr. Paul J. Ritter, and of Mrs. Catesby W. Stewart
at the end of the first semester. The increases are thus amply covered by available funds.
Dean Alvey presented a report on the coordination of the college with the University, dealing
with admission requirements, degree requirements, and course offerings as recommended by the Committee
on the Consolidation of Mary Washington College with the University of Virginia. The Committee feels
that fine progress has been made. Members of the Board were sent copies of Dean Alvey's report.
The Committee is cognizant of our obligation to have Mary Washington meet the requirements for approval
by accrediting agencies such as the American Association of Universities, but recommends that the
request for inclusion on the approved list of this association be delayed until the conversion of Mary
Washington into a liberal arts college and its consolidation with the University is completed.
The proposed changes in College Avenue were viewed, but the Committee asked Judge Garnett to investigate
the matter further. Brompton was also visited. A report on the status of its renovation was
sent to the members of the Board.
A subcommittee consisting of Mrs. Willis and the chairman met with the Mary Washington Faculty Committee
on Student Guidance, and later with representatives of student organizations for a discussion of
student activities. However, the subcommittee is not yet ready to make a report.
Mr. Perkins presented to the Board a form of proposed contract between Mary Washington College of the University
of Virginia and Veterans Administration by which the College agrees to accept for instruction during the
period from September 1, 1946, to June 30, 1947, inclusive, Veterans who are approved by the Veterans Administration
furnish books, tools, equipment, etc., necessary for the satisfactory pursuit of the courses being given; the
terms under which said Veterans are to be accepted by the College being fully set out in said contract.
After consideration of said contract the following resolution,
proposed by Mr. Garnett
and seconded by Mr. Black
unanimously adopted-
RESOLVED that Morgan L. Combs, President of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, said
College being a department of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, a Virginia Corporation
which owns and operates the University of Virginia and said Mary Washington College, be and is hereby authorized
and directed in the name and on behalf of said Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia to
execute the contract under date of January 28, 1947, between said College and Veterans Administration, a copy
of which has been presented to, and considered at, this meeting. And E. I. Carruthers, Secretary of said The
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, is hereby instructed to affix the corporate seal of The
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia to said contract and to attest the same. And that said contract
be and is hereby adopted as a contract of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.
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