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 | Board of Visitors minutes December 23, 1944 |  |
A special meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at 11 o'clock A.M. with The
Rector R. Gray Williams, and Visitors Lewis C. Williams, Christopher B. Garnett, James H. Corbitt, Edward C.
Anderson, Dabney S. Lancaster, Dr. William Dandridge Haden, Mrs. Bertha P. Wailes and Richard A. Carrington, Jr.,
and President Newcomb present.
Minutes of the previous meeting, having been copied and mailed the members, were approved.
The President announced the enrollment as of this date - 1311.
He also announced a gift of $5,000 from Dr. Stephen H. Watts to be added to his earlier gifts of
$15,000, the income therefrom to be used for the Medical Library, and he was requested to express to Dr.
Watts the appreciation of the Board of Visitors for his generous contribution.
The proposal from the Director of the Seward Forest that we sell a small parcel of land - around
half on acre - to Mr. Lemon J. Mosely, at a price of $15.00, in order to straighten the lines of both
properties, was approved, and the President and Secretary were authorized to execute deed thereto upon
payment of the purchase price.
A recommendation from the Law Faculty, approved by the University Senate, permitting the Law
School to confer graduate degrees, was approved as set forth in the following resolution adopted:
RESOLVED, that the Department of Law is hereby authorized to institute a
program of graduate studies in Law, and to recommend to the General Faculty
the awarding of the degrees of Master of Laws and Doctor of the Science of
Law to candidates who have successfully completed the requirements for
these degrees.
The President presented a proposal from the City of Charlottesville in the matter of the disposal
of the University's sewage through the City's sewerage system, and the matter was disposed of in the
following resolution, adopted:
WHEREAS the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia desires to dispose of the University's sewage through the City of
Charlottesville Sewerage System, rather than to maintain its own Disposal Plant,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Dr. W. D. Haden, Chairman of the Buildings
and Grounds Committee of the Board, be and he is hereby authorized and
directed to negotiate a contract between the City of Charlottesville and
the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia for the disposal of
the University's sewage, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that after this agreement has been approved by the
Budget Division of the State, J. L. Newcomb, President, be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to sign said agreement for and on behalf of the Rector
Dr. W. D. Haden, Chairman of the New Buildings Committee of the Board stated to the meeting
that his committee had held several meetings for the purpose of selecting and recommending to the
Board for appointment architects and engineers for the proposed construction work at the University,
and that his committee makes the following recommendations:
FOR DORMITORIES, DINING HALL AND STUDENT UNION:
| Principal Architects | Eggers & Higgins. |
| Associate Architects | Baskervill & Son, |
subject to satisfactory arrangements with Eggers & Higgins, and subject further to their agreeing
to give priority to this work over all other State work.
FOR ADDITION TO THE POWER PLANT, AND THE INCINERATOR:
| Principal Engineers | Wiley & Wilson. |
FOR HEATING TUNNELS AND UNDERGROUND MAINS:
| Principal Engineers | Wiley & Wilson, |
provided Almiral & Co. are employed by them as Consulting Engineers.
FOR THE UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM:
| Principal Engineers | Slaughter, Seville & Blackburn. |
FOR THE ADDITION TO THE CHEMICAL BUILDING:
THE ADDITION TO THE HOSPITAL KITCHEN, AND
THE COMPLETION OF THE INTERNES' QUARTERS:
| Principal Architects | Taylor & Fisher. |
FOR THE NORTH AND SOUTH WINGS OF THE OLD HOSPITAL BUILDING:
| Principal Architects | Taylor & Fisher, |
with the understanding that they will employ a hospital consultant who is satisfactory to the New
Buildings Committee of the Board.
The foregoing appointments were unanimously approved.
The meeting then adjourned.
Rector.
Secretary.
| Board of Visitors minutes December 23, 1944 | |