 | Board of Visitors minutes April 8, 1955 |  |
NOTICE TO DR. COMBS
The Secretary, in response to instructions to notify Dr. Combs by special courier of
the Board's decision, prepared and read to the Board the following letter.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Charlottesville
Alderman Library
8 April 1955
I am directed by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia to inform you that the
following Resolution was adopted by the Board at the meeting held today
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that Dr. Morgan L. Combs be and he is hereby removed from office
as President of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia,
effective immediately
RESOLVED further that provision be and is hereby made for continued payment of
his salary from private funds of the University until June 11, 1956, at which
time he will reach retirement age
At the request of the Rector, I am sending this letter to you by special messenger, who has been
instructed to hand it to you personally, so that the Board's decision will be known to you in
advance of its release to the public
I am enclosing, with the thought that you may care to have it in advance, a statement prepared
by the Board that will be released to the press after this copy is delivered to you
Secretary
Virginia flb/m Enclosure
The Board having approved the foregoing letter, the Secretary dispatched it to Fredericksburg,
together with a copy of the press release quoted above, by Major James A. Bear, Jr., who at 2:20 p.m.
reported by telephone his personal delivery of it to Dr. Combs
| Board of Visitors minutes April 8, 1955 | |