University of Virginia Library

A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date at
8 o'clock P. M., with the Rector, Hon. C. Harding Walker, Visitors D. D. Hull, Jr.,
Harris Hart, Lewis C. Williams, Paul G. McIntire, Hollis Rinehart, Fred W. Scott,
A. C. Carson, and Mrs. M. C. B. Munford, and President Alderman, present.

The minutes of the previous meeting, which had been copied and mailed to
all the members, were approved.

The President made the following announcements:

Attendance for the present session, 2098.

Gifts, as follows:

Bequest of the late Allie D. Smith, of Alexandria, Virginia, the sum
of $10,000 to be held in perpetual trust as a memorial to her deceased
son, said fund to be designated and known as the "THOMAS C. SMITH
MEMORIAL FUND." The devise was on condition that the net income from
said fund should be devoted entirely to the upkeep of the Law Library
of the University of Virginia. The Rector and Visitors are given
authority and power to invest and reinvest said fund from time to time,
and to convert any securities held to other securities, whenever, in
their judgement, would seem best for the interest of the fund.

                     

From Presley M. Rixey, bequest to the Endowment Fund of the University of Virginia, in appreciation of benefits accruing to him and to his brother, the late John F. Rixey, as students at the University of Virginia	10,000
From Mr. Ormond G. Smith, of New York, to be used for frescoes in the French Room of the Romance Pavilion	10,000
From Mr. Arthur Curtiss James, for the purchase of books for the Library, relating to the negro problem	1,000
From His Excellency, J. J. Jusserand, of Paris, two tables, formerly at the French Embassy in Washington, to be placed in the Romance Pavilion.
From the Kiwanis Club, a Chrysler Sedan, for the use of Miss Alice Holladay in clinical work	845
From the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, a drinking fountain, for the Law School	500
From Senator B. F. Buchanan, return of check given him as an honorarium for his address to the graduates, in June, 1928, this sum to be used by the President for the University in such way as may seem to him best	100
From Dr. W. M. Seward, annual gift for the development of the Department of Forestry in the University	750
From Mrs. Archibald H. Taylor, at the earnest request of Mr. DeCourcy W. Thom, an oil portrait of Dr. John B. Minor
From Mr. Fernando Bolivar a copy of a rare book, published in Paris, 1873, "Recuerdos Y Reminiscencias del Primer Tercio de la Zida de Risolba," together with a miniature copy of a portrait of Don Fernando Bolivar.
From the War Department, valuable maps of Northern France and the Saar Basin, and also a set of War Maps of the Western Front, for the General Library. These were secured through the efforts of Dr. J. C. Bardin, who was recently on duty in the Intelligence Division of the War Department.

Resignation of Dr. Thomas Fitz-Hugh, as professor of Latin, and Dr. John
Staige Davis, Professor of Practice of Medicine, both of whom had been placed on the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Retirement Fund, and for whom the
following actions were taken:

The following professors, instructors, assistants, scholarship and fellowship
holders, appointed by the President since the last meeting of the Board were
approved

• Laurens Blakely Hitchcock, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
  for a period of three years, at a salary of $3,500.

• Dr. R. R. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, for
  one year, at a salary of $3,500.

• Dr. Claude M. McFall, Assistant Professor of Biology for the session of
  1928-29, at a salary of $2,500.

• Mr. Alfred Akerman, Associate Professor of Forestry, at a salary of
  $3,250, $750 of this sum being paid by Dr. Wm. M. Seward.

• Mr. Nils Hammarstrand, Assistant Professor of History of Art, at a salary
  of $1,800.

• Dr. Lyndon Frederick Small, Research Associate in Organic Chemistry, for
  the session 1928-29, at a salary of $2,700.

• Charles H. Chandler, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, at a salary
  of $3,600 per annum.

Appointments under the Co-operative Program of Experimental Education and
Teacher Training entered into by the School Systems of the City of Charlottesville, the
County of Albemarle, and the University of Virginia.

                                                     

A. CHARGES AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION OF $5,000.00
A. M. Jarman, Assistant Professor of Secondary Education	$ 1,000
Henry Grady Acker, Assistant Professor School Supervision	1,800
Miss Amelia McLester, Assistant Professor School Supervision	1,200
J. E. Weldon, Assistant Professor of Education (half time)	1,000
		$ 5,000
B. CHARGES AGAINST THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD APPROPRIATION OF $20,000.00
A. L. Bennett, Assistant Professor of School Administration	$ 250
Edward Alvey, Jr., Instructor in Teaching of English in Secondary Schools	1,660
C. J. M. Blume, Instructor in Teaching of English in Secondary Schools	200
O. Garth Fitzhugh, Instructor in Teaching of Natural Sciences	1,660
R. Claude Graham, Principal Greenwood High School and Instructor in Secondary Education	500
Miss Lucy T. Jones, Instructor in Teaching of Latin in Secondary Schools	1,400
Miss Ruby Marshall, Instructor in teaching of English in Secondary Schools	1,020
Miss Margaret Page, Teacher in Simeon Experimental Rural School	800
Archer F. Robertson, Principal Crozet High School, Instructor in Secondary Education	500
Collin E. Smither, Instructor in teaching of Social Science and Mathematics	1,220
R. E. Swindler, Instructor in the teaching of Social Science	2,080
Miss Mollie B. Whitlock, Teacher in Liberty Experimental Rural School	800
R. C. Wingfield, Instructor in teaching of Mathematics	1,580
Mrs. E. E. Stockton, Stenographer for Supervisory Staff	1,100
W. R. Smithey, Editor of Secondary School Quarterly	250
Miss Amy Hale, Clerical Assistant for Editor of Secondary School Quarterly	300
One Automobile, No. 1	882.50
One Automobile, No. 2 (estimate cost)	600.00
Balance, for printing, supplies, equipment, etc.	3,197.50
Total	$ 20,000.00

INSTRUCTORS, ASSISTANTS, FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS APPOINTED
SINCE THE JUNE MEETING OF THE BOARD

                                                                                                                                                                               

BIOLOGY:
Carl H. McConnell	Assistant
Robert King	Assistant
Kelvin Cameron	Assistant
A. B. Stump	Assistant
N. B. Orrick	Assistant
COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION:
Clayton B. Carus	Instructor
F. J. Daniels	Assistant
E. A. Deitrich, Jr.	Assistant
James M. Graham, Jr.	Assistant
A. L. Stevens	Assistant
H. J. Franklin	Assistant
John J. Corson III	Assistant
Miss Selese Hunter	Assistant
ECONOMICS:
A. J. Eastwood	Teaching Fellow
ENGLISH:
R. W. Church	Assistant
Beirne Hopkins	Assistant
Dwight Todd	Assistant
J. T. Wyllie	Assistant
GEOLOGY:
Eugene de Bullet	Assistant
GREEK:
Bernard M. Peebles	Instructor
HISTORY:
A. L. Boothe	Assistant
MATHEMATICS:
F. A. Wells	Instructor
M. M. Weaver	Instructor
C. N. Hulvey	Instructor
Charles Henderson	Instructor
C. D. Harmon	Assistant
E. C. Stevenson	Assistant
M. W. Aylor	Assistant
A. P. Gagge	Assistant
MATHEMATICS:
T. L. Wade, Jr.	Assistant
J. M. Graham, Jr.	Assistant
PHILOSOPHY:
Lewis M. Hammond	Assistant
PHYSICS:
Frank Cowan	Assistant
A. P. Gagge	Assistant
C. E. McMurdo	Assistant
L. R. Quarles	Assistant
E. C. Stevenson	Assistant
J. W. Lynch	Assistant
PUBLIC SPEAKING:
H. H. Hackley	Assistant
ROMANIC LANGUAGES:
F. E. Fareell	Instructor
Fernando Martinez	Instructor
RURAL SOCIAL ECONOMICS:
John J. Corson III	Instructor
ANATOMY:
Winthrop H. Hall	Assistant
A. Hinson	Assistant
J. P. King	Assistant
BIOCHEMISTRY:
Herbert Silvette	Instructor
OBSTETRICS:
W. H. Paine	Assistant
PHYSIOLOGY:
E. B. Ferris	Assistant
Southgate Leigh	Assistant
SURGERY AND GYNECOLOGY:
W. W. Koontz	Instructor
W. J. Rollins	Instructor
ENGINEERING:
E. C. Stevenson	Assistant
C. M. Hawkins	Assistant
C. D. Harmon	Assistant
J. F. Hunt	Assistant
EDUCATION:
C. H. Phippins	Instructor Secondary Education
J. E. Weldon	Instructor School Administration
LAW:
Raymond L. Jackson	Graduate Assistant
W. W. Bohannon	Assistant
Lucius A. Buck	Assistant
Freeman J. Daniels	Assistant
A. Rodman Jussey, Jr.	Assistant
Robert B. Tyler	Assistant
J. Edward Smith	Night Librarian
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Mary Hildreth Cassell	Instructor

GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD DONATION FOR RESEARCH

                         

BIOLOGY:
Claude M. MacFall	Assistant Professor
E. M. Betts	Assistant Professor
W. L. Threlkeld	Fellow
E. C. Cocke	Fellow
J. M. Robertson, Jr.	Fellow
Jeannette S. Carter	Fellow
CHEMISTRY:
Robert E. Lutz	Associate Professor
L. F. Small	Research Associate
PHYSICS:
C. R. Larkin	Research Associate
E. J. Workman	Research Assistant

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

                                                                                                     

O. J. Andre	Louis Bennett Scholarship
N. B. Orrick	Thomas Pinckney Bryan Memorial Scholarship
N. P. Lawrence, Jr.	Henry Coalter Cabell Scholarship
Douglas D. Myers	George Cameron Scholarship
A. Pharo Gagge	Isaac Carey Scholarship
R. B. Grinnan	Isaac Carey Scholarship
John H. Mote	du Pont Fellowship in Chemistry
Harry R. McCoy	Wm. C. Folkes Scholarship
Wm. E. Apperson	Wm. C. Folkes Scholarship
H. T. Poston	Wm. C. Folkes Scholarship
A. Graydon Wood	Wm. C. Folkes Scholarship
E. R. Jones, Jr.	Elizabeth B. Garrett Fellowship
Dan F. Harrington	D. J. Hennessey Scholarship
J. E. West	Wm. A. Herndon Scholarship
J. E. Amiss	Wm. A. Herndon Scholarship
W. T. Sowder	Wm. A. Herndon Scholarship
T. S. Claiborne	Wm. A. Herndon Scholarship
Charles E. McMurdo	Isabella Merrick Sampson Scholarship
John Thomas Stewart	Samuel Miller Scholarship
Marjorie F. Irwin	Phelps Stokes Fellowship
Warren M. Ballard	Ryan Scholarship - Fifth District
T. L. Watson, Jr.	Seven Society Alumni Medical Scholarship
Francis M. Cooper	Skinner Scholarship
Seddon Nelson	Skinner Scholarship
Austin B. Mitchell	Skinner Scholarship
J. P. Baker, Jr.	R. H. Whitehead Scholarship
Richard Hallum	Woodrow Wilson
R. W. Mustard	R. H. Wood, Jr. Aviator (D.A.R.) Scholarship
R. N. Crockett	Daniel Harmon Scholarship
F. H. Quarles, Jr.	Law Review Scholarship
Jas. H. Simmons	du Pont Scholarship
James G. Wharton	du Pont Scholarship
E. H. Heaton, Jr.	du Pont Scholarship
Parke E. Ticer	du Pont Scholarship
Wm. T. Ross	du Pont Scholarship
R. E. Pereda	du Pont Scholarship
F. W. Rose, Jr.	du Pont Scholarship
Albert Kramer	du Pont Scholarship
R. G. Sanderson	du Pont Scholarship
D. F. Weaver, Jr.	du Pont Scholarship
J. M. Copper	du Pont Scholarship
W. W. Hurt	du Pont Scholarship
Ruben R. Coleman	du Pont Scholarship
M. M. Fleiss	du Pont Scholarship
Gabriel Llull	du Pont Scholarship
Robert E. Odom	du Pont Scholarship
Robert B. Tyler	du Pont Scholarship
John H. Purse	du Pont Scholarship
Mel D. Smith	du Pont Scholarship
Wm. C. Luke	du Pont Scholarship
O. T. Close	du Pont Scholarship

(83 du Pont scholarships have been awarded, one of which was not
taken, leaving 82 now occupied).

du Pont Fellowships:

                   

Emily S. Calcott	English	$500
B. F. Flickinger	History	500
W. H. Greene	Pol. Science	300
R. H. Barker	Sociology	300
J. G. Wharton	English	300
W. O. Bristow	Philosophy	300
Jane C. Slaughter	Romance	300
Archer S. Campbell	Economics	500
T. Carter Harrison	English	300
E. W. Herold	Physics	500

With respect to the foregoing appointments, the following motion was
adopted:

The resignation of Alvin Graydon Wood as the holder of the Ryan Scholarship
from the Sixth Congressional District, was accepted, and Warren M. Ballard was appointed
to fill the vacancy.

The following special appropriations were approved

     

For various improvements in the Women Students' room, a sum not to exceed	$1,500.00
For the Library	925.00
For equipment for Cabell Hall	1,250.00

Letters from the Attorney for the University, submitting Final Decree of
the Circuit Court of Clarke County, Virginia, in the matter of the Blandy Experimental
Farm, were submitted, read and ordered spread upon the minutes.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF CLARKE COUNTY, VIRGINIA:

This cause came on to be further heard in Term time this _____ day
of October, 1928, upon the papers formerly read and upon the oral arguments
and written briefs of counsel for the respective parties in interest, and
the Court having maturely considered the provisions of the Last Will and
Testament of Graham F. Blandy, deceased, and particularly the provisions of

the Ninth and Eleventh Clauses thereof in so far as the same are applicable
to the question of the nature and character of the title acquired by The
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, in and to that portion
of the "Tuleyries Farm" devised to it, and to the remainder interest in the
residuary estate of said Graham F. Blandy, deceased, and having likewise
considered the arguments of counsel and the authorities therein cited,

Doth adjudge, order and decree that all conditions speficied in
the will of said Graham F. Blandy, deceased, to the vesting of title in
The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia to the lands in the
Bill mentioned have been fully performed and duly complied with and that
the estate thereby created is a charitable trust to be forever operated,
maintained and conducted by The Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia in the name of The Blandy Experimental Farm and in the manner
specified by said will for the purpose of teaching boys farming in the
various branches, including fruit raising.

And the Court doth further order and decree that all costs
lawfully taxable in this cause be paid equally and proportionately by the
Executors of Graham F. Blandy, deceased and The Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia.

And all matters in controversy herein being now concluded this
cause is ordered to be retired from the Docket of the Court among causes
ended upon the payment of costs.

The following resolution in the matter of the certificates of indebtedness
to be issued by the University to secure the loan of $500,000 from the Literary Fund
of the State, was presented and adopted unanimously:

RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia, that in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly, approved
February 28, 1928, (Acts of Assembly, 1928, Chapter 61, page 324), it is
hereby resolved that the University of Virginia through the Commissioners
of the Sinking Fund, issue and sell certificates of indebtedness to the
amount of $500,000, in the name of and on behalf of this institution, to
raise funds for the construction and equipment of dormitories at the
University of Virginia, bearing interest at four per cent per annum, payable
semi-annually January 1st and July 1st of each year. The Rector of the
University be and he is hereby authorized and directed to sign such certificates
which shall be issued in such denominations and shall mature at such
times as are set out in the following schedule:

                         

DATE OF CERTIFICATE	AMOUNT	MATURITY
January 1, 1929	30,000	June 30, 1933
January 1, 1929	30,000	June 30, 1935
January 1, 1929	35,000	June 30, 1938
February 1, 1929	35,000	June 30, 1941
February 1, 1929	20,000	June 30, 1944
March 1, 1929	20,000	June 30, 1944
March 1, 1929	30,000	June 30, 1947
April 1, 1929	50,000	June 30, 1950
May 1, 1929	50,000	June 30, 1953
June 1, 1929	50,000	June 30, 1956
July 1, 1929	75,000	June 30, 1959
August 1, 1929	75,000	June 30, 1962

A resolution of the Alumni Association of the University regarding the
increase of salaries of the members of the faculty of the University was presented
and, on motion, referred to the Committee of the Board now studying the matter of
salary increases.

A resolution of the Alumni Association, regarding the establishment of
an Alumni Fund for the University of Virginia, was, on motion, referred to the
Finance Committee of the Board.

In the matter of the Estate of the late Robert Burns Waddy, the following
motion was adopted:

Mr. Scott, Chairman of the Finance Committee, reported that he had had
a conference with the Trust Committee and officers of the Wilmington Trust Company,
Trustees and Custodians of the Philip F. DuPont bequest to the University, with
respect to its investing, which conference was entirely satisfactory in so far as
the interests of the University are concerned.

Mr. Rinehart, Chairman of the Building Committee, submitted the following
report with respect to the contracts for the new dormitories and academic building

REPORT OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE.

The question of demolishing the old building between Prof Faulkner's residence
and Dr. Waddell's Laboratory, was referred to the Buildings & Grounds Committee for
report.

The request of the Virginia Education Association for an extension of time in
which to make final payment for the construction and furnishing of the Preventorium was
disposed of in the following motion, unanimously adopted:

The request of the Stillwater Worstead Mills for permission to use the old
truck camp as a site for a temporary building to be used as a Textile School, in
training their minor executives, was granted.

Report from the Engineering Department on purchase of electric current
versus generation by the University, which report had been prepared by Prof. Macconochie,
was submitted and referred to the Buildings & Grounds Committee for study and report
to a subsequent meeting of the Board.

The suggestion of the President that the entries to the new dormitories be
designated by names taken from the list of professors who had served the University
from its beginning, was approved.

Report of the Committee of the Board, and of the Faculty of the University
appointed to consider the establishment of a Radio Station at the University, was
submitted, read, and ordered filed, awaiting further action of the Committee.

The meeting then adjourned.