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MR. BRYAN ELECTED RECTOR

Following a brief period of balloting, the Board announced through its temporary Chairman,
Mr. Hartfield, that Mr. Albert Vickers Bryan had been elected Rector of the University of Virginia,
to succeed Mr. Frank Talbott, Jr., for the remainder of the four-year term ending on 28
February 1962.

President Shannon entered the room at this point. Chancellor Simpson and Bursar Woodward
were present throughout the discussion of Mary Washington College matters.