 | Board of Visitors minutes February 9, 2007 |  |
CENTENNIAL OF THE COLONNADE CLUB
The Rector noted that the Colonnade Club, the faculty club, is celebrating its hundredth year, having been founded in the spring of 1907. He called on Mr. Sandridge, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, to present a commemorative resolution.
Mr. Sandridge read the following resolution which, on motion, was adopted:
COMMEMORATING THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
COLONNADE
CLUB
WHEREAS, the cornerstone of Pavilion VII, West Lawn, the oldest of the Pavilions, was laid on October 6, 1817, by Presidents Jefferson, Madison and Monroe; and
WHEREAS, the building was used as the University Library until the Rotunda was completed, and thereafter used as a classroom and faculty residence in accordance with the Founder design; and
WHEREAS, the last faculty resident of the Pavilion retired from the University in 1907; and
WHEREAS, a faculty club, to be known as the Colonnade Club, was organized on April 23, 1907 and chartered on May 7th of that year; and
WHEREAS, Pavilion VII was leased by the Board of Visitors to the Colonnade Club in 1907; and
WHEREAS, the Colonnade Club was envisioned from its origin as a club for faculty as well as alumni at a time when the Alumni Association had no quarters of its own; and
WHEREAS, Pavilion VII functioned for some years as the home of both organizations, the Colonnade Club and the Alumni Association; and
WHEREAS, the Colonnade Club continues as a club for both faculty and alumni; and
WHEREAS, the Colonnade Club will celebrate its hundredth anniversary in the spring of 2007;
RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors takes note of the centennial of the Colonnade Club and congratulates the Club for the service it has rendered the University for one hundred years.
| Board of Visitors minutes February 9, 2007 | |