University of Virginia Library

REPORT ON NAMINGS

Substituting for the President, Mr. Sandridge reported to the Board on the following namings, which did not require Board action:

THE CHARLES W. GROSS RHINOLOGY LABORATORY IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY IN THE SCHOOL OF
MEDICINE

This laboratory is named in honor of Dr. Gross, an alumnus of the Medical School, who has been Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Pediatrics since 1990.

JAMES T. HAMLIN, III, M.D., READING ROOM IN THE
CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY

The Hamlin Reading Room is named in memory of the late Dr. James T. Hamlin, III of Danville, who died in 2004. An alumnus, Dr. Hamlin was Dean of the Tulane University Medical School from 1974 to 1988. Dr. Hamlin’s classmates from the Medical School Class of 1955 are directing their reunion gifts to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in support of the Hamlin Reading Room.

CLIFTON WALLER BARRETT READING ROOM IN THE MARY AND
DAVID HARRISON INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN HISTORY,
LITERATURE, AND CULTURE, AND THE ALBERT AND SHIRLEY
SMALL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY

The Barrett Room honors the late Clifton Waller Barrett; the name is being transferred from a room, named some years ago, on the second floor of the Alderman Library. Mr. Barrett, who was a Member of the Board of Visitors from 1969 to 1979, was an alumnus and a noted bibliophile. He gave the University one of the finest collections of American literature ever assembled. He was a tireless and driving

force in building the University Library’s Special Collections.

LILLIAN GARY TAYLOR ROOM IN THE MARY AND DAVID
HARRISON INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE,
AND CULTURE, AND THE ALBERT AND SHIRLEY SMALL SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS LIBRARY

The Taylor Room is a reading room on the second floor of the new Special Collections Library. It honors the memory of Lillian Gary Taylor, a Baltimorean who assembled – and gave to the University – a remarkable and unique collection of American popular fiction from 1752 through 1950. Mrs. Taylor and her husband, Robert Coleman Taylor in addition were generous benefactors of the University Library.

MARION DUPONT SCOTT CONFERENCE ROOM IN THE MARY AND DAVID
HARRISON INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE,
AND CULTURE, AND THE ALBERT AND SHIRLEY SMALL SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS LIBRARY

Marion duPont Scott, who owned “Montpelier” in Orange County, was a noted horsewoman. She bequeathed the University her important collection of books and periodicals on the history and practice of equestrian and related sports, she left an endowment to be used for adding to the collection, and she bequeathed a major gift toward the construction of the new Special Collections Library.

WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH MILLHISER MORRIS SEMINAR ROOM IN THE MARY AND
DAVID HARRISON INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN HISTORY,
LITERATURE, AND CULTURE, AND THE ALBERT AND SHIRLEY
SMALL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY

William Morris of Princeton and New York was an alumnus and a bibliophile. He donated part of his collection to the University and he and Mrs. Morris bequeathed funds to be used for the Special Collections Library Building Fund to establish an endowment for rare books.

On motion, the meeting was adjourned at 4:50 p.m.

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The following resolutions were adopted by Board Committees since the October meeting of the full Board. They do not require

action by the full Board and are listed here as a matter of record: