 | Board of Visitors minutes June 14, 1958 |  |
McGREGOR LIBRARY GRANTS RENEWED
President Darden initiated a discussion of the Tracy W. McGregor Library and its work by
reading to the Board the following letter
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June 2, 1958
University of Virginia
At the Annual meeting of the Trustees of McGregor Fund careful consideration was given to your
letter of April 28 and to a continuation of support of the Tracy W. McGregor Library at the
University. I am pleased to report that the Trustees appropriated $12,000 a year for each
of the five years commencing July 1, 1958, for accessions to the McGregor Library, and checks
will be forthcoming quarterly as in the past, commencing around July 1
In making this five-year appropriation the Trustees expressed their keen satisfaction with
the excellent conduct of the Library over the past twenty years. Its capable staff has long
had the reputation throughout the country of giving friendly help and cooperation to visiting
scholars
We look forward with pleasure to our continuing association with the University of Virginia
Secretary
The President spoke with great warmth of the work of the McGregor Library and its curators
over the past twenty years since its presentation to the University by the Trustees of McGregor
Fund of Detroit. The Trustees, Mr. Darden pointed out, had in 1956 generously increased the
amount of their annual grants in an effort to offset the effects of inflation and the sharply
increased competition for rare Americana
The Rector remarked that it would be superfluous to call for a formal vote on the renewal
of the University's annual supplementary grants of $2,500 for additions to the McGregor Library,
and the Secretary was accordingly instructed to write to Mr. Wheat and inform him that the University's
supplemental appropriations would be continued
| Board of Visitors minutes June 14, 1958 | |