University of Virginia Library

ARMISTEAD MASON DOBIE

The President proposed and the Board adopted the following resolution

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, on
this 8th of April 1961, that the President be requested to convey to Judge Armistead Mason Dobie the
good wishes of the Board upon his eightieth birthday on next Saturday, 15 April

For more than sixty years Judge Dobie has been an active force in the life of this place as
student, teacher, administrator, and alumnus. Throughout these years he has epitomized the best for
which the University has stood in the twentieth century. The notable honors and distinctions that
he has richly won from year to year as citizen, soldier, scholar, and jurist are too widely recorded
and too numerous to be recited in this birthday greeting, he has received them with wit and grace, and
he carries them lightly, we take due judicial notice of them and leave them to the library files, the
biographers, and the historians.

Two of our present Visitors were fellow students with Armistead Dobie. Five more of us, as his
spell-bound pupils, sat at his feet to learn Federal Procedure or to hear him excoriate the "Minks"
at football pep rallies before the rest of the world knew him as the standard authority on these
subjects. To all of us, he is much more than founding father of the Raven Society and the Colonnade
Club - and their leading wit. He is, indeed, a living legend and a University Institution; but beyond
all that he is our preceptor and friend. Both corporately and individually, we send him warm greetings
and wish him well upon his birthday.