 | Board of Visitors minutes June 10, 1955 |  |
PROFESSOR HILLDRUP'S LETTER
The President read to the Board a letter from Professor R. L. Hilldrup recommending the promotion
of Professor Zoe Black, whose name had been signed to the so-called "Petition" of March 8th.
President Darden said that he was inclined to give serious consideration to any suggestion from a
professor of such distinction as Mr. Hilldrup, but that the time seemed inappropriate to him for the
action proposed (and recommended also by the Dean's Advisory Council), even though he shared
Mr. Hilldrup's optimism that the ill-feeling arising from the Petition was subsiding. Members of
the Board strongly seconded the President's opinion, and Mr. Howard was requested to inquire further
into the circumstances of the Petition and its signing.
| Board of Visitors minutes June 10, 1955 | |