University of Virginia Library

A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this day at 10:00
o'clock a. m. 1. To act upon an application to the Public Works Administration for
a grant in aid of the construction of an addition to the University of Virginia Hospital
in Charlottesville, Virginia, for which the State of Virginia has appropriated $250,000
in accordance with the provisions of Section 3-c, Chapter 428 of the Acts of Assembly,
Virginia 1938, beginning on page 947.

2. To open bids and take action thereon for the reconditioning and refurnishing
of that part of the Rare Book and Manuscript Room in the new Library Building which has
been designated The McGregor Room.

3. Furthermore, any and all other matters relevant to or in any way connected
with either or with both of the above matters, or which may be taken up, considered and
acted upon at said meeting.

There were present the Rector, Frederic W. Scott, Visitors Corbitt, Garnett,
Goolrick, Rinehart, Tucker and L. C. Williams and President Newcomb.

The following resolution was offered by Mr. Rinehart, seconded by Mr. Corbitt,
was adopted:

Be it resolved by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia:

Pursuant to the advertisement stating that bids would be opened on the reconditioning
of the McGregor Room at 11 o'clock on this date, and the hour having
arrived, the bids were opened and found to be, as follows:

     

Robert Mitchell Mfg. Co.	$27,300.00
Lynchburg Lumber Mfg. Co.	42,403.00
John C. Knipp & Sons	18,200.00

Following general discussion and consideration of the several bids, on motion
of Mr. Garnett, the contract was awarded to John C. Knipp & Sons of Baltimore, Md., at their
bid of $18,200.00.

Deletion of certain items from the wage scale submitted to PWA for Dockets
Va. 1101-F and 1312-F.

The following resolution offered by Mr. Corbitt and seconded by Mr. Rinehart,
was adopted unanimously:

The President presented a lease made between the University and Edwin T.
Driscoll for the dining room in the Faculty Apartments, for three years from September
12, 1938, with a rental of $500.00 for the first year and $600 per year for the remaining
two years. The same was ratified and confirmed in all respects.

The following elections to the faculty were voted:

• Dr. Gephart Husserl, Visiting Professor of Law for the session of 1938-39,
  at a salary of $3600. to be furnished by the American
  Law Institute.

• C. Homer Bast, fulltime Instructor in Rural Social Economics for the session
  of 1938-39, at a salary of $2300. taking the place of
  W. G. Poindexter, resigned, at the same salary.

• Lynn Gault, Instructor in Dramatic Art, for the session, taking the place of
  Roger Boyle, at the same salary, $1500 for the session.

The Rector reported that the University received in the Bayly-Tiffany bequest
$12,000 Chesapeake & Ohio Canal bonds which, when received, were considered of no value,
but that there was a prospect of the canal property being sold to the Federal Government,
and that he had received an offer of 10¢ on the dollar for the bonds. He was authorized
by the Board to accept the same.

The President reported that he had received a cash offer of $600.00 for the
51 acre tract of land, located in Dinwiddie County, about 4 miles from Petersburg,
belonging to the Seward Estate. The sale was approved as set forth in the following
resolutions adopted:

The meeting then adjourned.