University of Virginia Library

Statement of Edwin L. Kendig, Jr.
18 February 1969

Mr. Weldon Cooper

Pavilion VIII, East Lawn

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

Dear Weldon:

As requested, I am submitting for the record my reason for casting a negative ballot on the question of coeducation at the University of Virginia. The resolution was, of course, proposed and adopted at the February, 1969, meeting of the Board.

My reason is as follows: Mr. Thomas Martin, president of the Board of Managers, appeared before the Committee on Educational Policy and requested that action on the matter of coeducation be deferred until the alumni of the University could be polled; it was and is my feeling that this courtesy should have been extended to Mr. Martin and to the alumni.