Board of Visitors minutes December 8, 1956 | ||
GIFTS AND GRANTS
The President announced the following gifts and grants, which were thereupon accepted by
resolution of the Board:
From Mr. and Mrs. Christian C. Yegan, for the College, securities valued at | $732.00 |
From Mr. V. Lada-Mocarski, to the Alderman Library, a first edition of Einstein's "General Theory of Relativity", with the author's autograph, valued at |
350.00 |
From Mr. Linton Massey, for support of the Bibliographical Society (NO PUBLICITY) | 1,000.00 |
From Mr. Joseph Mintzer, to the Tumor Clinic | 100.00 |
From General Motors Corporation, for a graduate fellowship in physical chemistry for the 1956-57 session |
2,300.00 |
From the Virginia Carolina Chemical Corporation, for a fellowship in chemistry for the 1956-57 session |
3,000.00 |
From the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, for research in physics | 3,000.00 |
From the Research Corporation, to cover expenses in connection with the installation of an electron synchrotron |
7,000.00 |
From the estate of the late Mrs. Bennie B. Henry, to be added to the University endowment fund |
1,000.00 |
From Mr. Philip K. Crowe, for the "Ambassador Crowe's Library of Ceylon" | 1,000.00 |
From Dr. P. F. McMurdo, to be added to the Alumni Medical Fund | 100.00 |
From Mr. Hugh L. Sulfridge, to be used for cancer research at the hospital | 100.00 |
From the Virginia Heart Association, for the Virginia Heart Association Fellowship in clinical cardiology, for the 1956-57 session |
3,800.00 |
From the Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, to the Department of Pharmacology for the purchase of basic equipment |
3,400.00 |
From the Burlington Industries Foundation, $1,000 for the Burlington Industries scholarship and $1,000 to be added to the general funds of the University |
2,000.00 |
From the United Daughters of the Confederacy, for the Woodrow Wilson Scholarship | 450.00 |
From the W. K. McClure Foundation, for a scholarship in Foreign Affairs for the 1956-57 session |
1,200.00 |
From the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, for a law scholarship | 200.00 |
From the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Foundation, for the Woodrow Wilson Department of Foreign Affairs |
2,326.00 |
From Mr. Harry Lee Carter, to be added to the Harry Lee Carter scholarship fund | 2,500.00 |
From Mr. Eldridge Smith, to be added to the University Scholarship Fund | 500.00 |
From the General Electric Company, $650 for the General Electric Scholarship and $350 to be added to the general fund of the University |
1,000.00 |
From the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, to be added to the general funds of the University |
180.00 |
From Mrs. Cammann C. Duke, 176 books valued at | 120.30 |
From Mr. G. T. Minnigerode, to be added to the Suhling Cancer Fund | 200.00 |
From Mrs. Edmonia C. L. Metcalf, to be added to Metcalf Memorial Fund | 100.00 |
From the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Foundation, for continued research in physics under Prof. Stephan Berko (NO PUBLICITY) |
$5,000.00 |
From the Ford Foundation, for a faculty research fellowship in Economic Development and Administration |
10,445.00 |
From the General Electric Company, with the concurrence of the Office of Naval Research, a 75 Mev Synchrotron for research and training of graduate students in high energy physics, valued in the range of $100,000 to $200,000. |
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From the Research Corporation, for continued research in chemistry under the direction of Dr. L. G. Hepler |
1,600.00 |
From the Dearborn Foundation, for a research project in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Foreign Affairs |
50,000.00 |
From the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America, for the Muscular Dystrophy Clinic at the Hospital |
6,025.00 |
From the University of Virginia Hospital Auxiliary, for equipment for the Children's Rehabilitation Center |
1,000.00 |
From the University of Virginia Hospital Auxiliary, to be used for the hospital | 850.00 |
From Mrs. Edward Johnson, to distribute sets of Robert J. Turnbull's "Bibliography of South Carolina" to small libraries in the South Carolina area |
1,000.00 |
From the Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, to the Department of Chemistry for medicinal chemical research |
603.00 |
From various sources, to help defray expenses of Dr. John Yoe to the Lisbon Conference which he attended in the summer of 1956 |
300.00 |
From the Bristol Heart Association, to be added to the Internal Medicine Reserve | 150.00 |
From the Virginia Heart Association, in support of research under the direction of Dr. J. F. Dammann |
2,982.50 |
From the English Club of the University of Virginia, for the purchase of books in memory of the late Mr. Philip Williams |
313.00 |
From Mrs. Armistead Gordon, for the purchase of books in memory of Prof. Armistead Gordon |
100.00 |
From the Glenn L. Martin Company, for research under the direction of Dr. William Zuk of the School of Engineering |
6,400.00 |
From the Army Signal Supply Agency, for research under the direction of Prof. O. R. Harris of the Engineering School |
17,249.61 |
From the Federal Trade Commission, for research under the direction of Dr. J. S. Bowen, Jr., in the School of Engineering |
10,321.52 |
From the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, for continued research under the direction of Dr. Herbert Jonas of the cancer research laboratory |
6,300.00 |
From the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, for continued research under the direction of Dr. C. L. Gemmill of the Dept. of Pharmacology |
7,020.00 |
From the National Science Foundation, for research under the direction of the following members of the faculty: |
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Prof. H. G. Larew | 19,987.00 |
Dr. D. W. Kupke | 47,559.00 |
Prof. R. E. Lutz | 20,300.00 |
From the U. S. Public Health Service, for research under the direction of the following members of the faculty |
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Dr. W. N. Reingold | 2,242.00 |
Dr. J. L. Guerrant | 4,715.00 |
Dr. Alfred Chanutin | 10,540.00 |
From the Department of the Navy, for continued research under the direction of the following members of the faculty: |
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Dr. A. R. Kuhlthau | 26,500.00 |
Dr. A. J. Bachrach and Dr. E. G. Pattishall | 7,110.45 |
Dr. Stephan Berko | 9,000.00 |
From the Department of the Air Force, for continued research under the direction of the following members of the faculty. |
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Dr. G. C. Pitts | 2,318.20 |
Drs. James Cole and Otis Updike | 96,868.16 |
Dr. Alfred Burger | 9,541.00 |
From the Department of the Army, for research under the direction of the following members of the faculty: |
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Drs. O. L. Updike and J. S. Bowen, Jr. | 19,950.00 |
Dr. A. R. Kuhlthau | 18,000.00 |
Dr. Alfred Chanutin | 31,398.00 |
Board of Visitors minutes December 8, 1956 | ||