 | Board of Visitors minutes June 11, 1923 |  |
The regular annual meeting of the Rector and Visitors was
held on this date, at 8 o'clock P. M., with the following members
present: Visitors Dillard, Duke, Greaver, Hart, McIntire,
McVea, Oliver and Scott, and President Alderman.
In the absence of the Rector, Mr. Scott was elected
Rector pro tem.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been copied
and sent to the members of the Board, were approved.
The President announced the following gifts and he was
authorized to prepare suitable resolutions of thanks in each
case:
From the Estate of Dr. J. R. Humphrey $5,000.00, being
a legacy to establish a scholarship for needy and
deserving students.From Mrs. Legh R. Watts, of Portsmouth, Va., the law
library of Judge Legh R. Watts containing about 1400
volumes.From Mr. H. Gordon Gilpin, Springfield, Ohio, rough
draft of a communication written by Thomas Jefferson
to someone, presumably Prof. Emmet, making certain
suggestions in regard to the establishment of a
Professorship of Botany in the University.From Dr. Gardner L. Carter, of the University, to the
Department of Music, a small library of music and books
of music.From Madame Marie Jonnesco, Roumanian writer and poet,
a copy of her book "Roumania". Mr. F. A. DePilis,
of New York City, interested Madame Jonnesco in sending
a copy to the Library of the University of Virginia.From Seale Harris gift of $1000.00, payable $100.00
a year to establish a loan fund in the Medical
School.
Upon the recommendation of the President, the following
election, transfer and resignation of members of the faculty
were approved:
Mr. Harry Rogers Pratt, elected Assistant Professor of
Music.Mr. Charles Henderson, elected Assistant Professor of
Experimental Engineering.Mr. J. S. Miller, Ass't Professor of Experimental Engineering
transferred to Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering.J. Edwin Wood, Md., elected Instructor in Internal Medicine.
Resignation of Dr. James Sugars McLemore, Assistant
Professor of Latin and Greek accepted.Ernest Linwood Lehman, M. A., Ph. D., promoted from Instructor
to Assistant Professor of Latin.
Upon the recommendation of the President, the following
special appropriations were adopted:
$1500.00 to provide an additional instructor in Internal
Medicine$ 50.00 for Social Service work under the Red Cross.
$ 150.00 increase in salary of Prof. Saunders.
Request of Dr. T. R. Snavely concerning his salary, $250.00.
Dr. Bean asked an additional appropriation of $500.00
for his instructor in Anatomy. He inadvertently put down
$1,000.00, instead of $1,500 and it was carried in the
Budget as $1,000.00.Additional appropriation of $104.68 to supplement the
$74.00 which was appropriated to cover the bill for improvements
and repairs to Prof. FitzHugh's projectoscope.
Resolution was adopted authorizing the President to sign
and transfer certain Liberty Bonds to provide funds with which
to construct the McIntire wing to the Hospital and to convert
$500.00 of the Third Liberty Loan 4 1/4% bond for reinvestment.
Resolution was adopted accepting the gift of $5,844 from
the General Athletic Association for the purpose of tiling the
swimming pool of the Memorial Gymnasium.
Mr. C. H. H. Thomas, Manager of the McIntire Concerts, submitted
the report for the session 1922-23 showing a deficit of
year was considered and resolution was adopted authorizing the
continuance of the concerts, as follows:
RESOLVED, That the McIntire concerts be continued and
that the President, Mr. McIntire and Miss. McVea be appointed
with full power to arrange the program.
The question of providing sewerage system for the Memorial
Gymnasium was disposed of in the following resolution,
unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED, That the sum of $5,000, which sum is in lieu
of the $2,500.00 already appropriated, to construct a
ten inch sewer line leading from the Memorial Gymnasium
to a septic tank to be located on the western border of
the land of Col. Eugene Massie, be and is hereby appropriated,
provided the City appropriate a like sum and the
adjoining property owners pay the balance of the cost
of construction, the said sewer and tank to be constructed
by the City and maintained by it in the future. Any
plans for said construction shall have the approval of
the Gymnasium Committee.
Upon the recommendation of the President the resignation
of Prof. R. H. Dabney, as Dean of the Graduate Department,
was accepted, and the appointment of Prof. J. C. Metcalf
to fill the vacancy confirmed.
Prof. Charles Hancock submitted the following report
on the New Central Heating Plant, which was considered, and
such matters as need further study and consideration connected
therewith were referred to a special committee consisting of
Messrs. McIntire, Duke and the President for report to the
Board:
University of Virginia.
It is a pleasure to report the completion
of the first two units of the new heating plant and
the successful operation of the same through its first heating
season. There are now installed about 75 000 square feet of
radiation surface, approximately 72% of the entire heating load
for all permanent buildings south of Ivy Road.
Records of coal consumed in heating the buildings in the past
which are now heated from the new station are not available.
For comparison, therefore, I can only refer to the actual
results to my estimate of probable fuel consumption. Making
due allowance for fuel used in supplying live steam for the
hospital sterilizers and for the fact that this heating
season is about two degrees warmer than the normal, upon which
my estimate was based, coal actually consumed, as determined
by careful weighing, was 288 tons less than the estimated
consumption. Or, as stated another way, the actual consumption
was 16.5% less than the estimated consumption.
The comparison of the previous paragraph is of value only
as indicating that the estimates, upon which the wisdom
of the undertaking is based, are fairly trustworth. The
anticipation seems fully justified that very real economies,
as predicted, will appear upon the final abandonment of the
old power and heating plant and the combined production of
heating plant and the combined production of heat and power
at the new plant.
These are the good results of the first season's operation.
There is, however, one unsolved problem still before us.
The accurate weighing of coal and comparison of results with
the estimates indicated that fuel used for live steam that
has been supplied to the hospital for operating sterilizers,
steam tables and the distillation system seems out of all
proportion to the service rendered. The cost of coal used
for this service during the past six months is, at least,
$2,500.00. Furthermore, for the summer months there will
be an additional cost, as firemen must be retained for this
service alone.
The situation demands immediate and careful investigation with
a view to discovering and eliminating causes of waste.
Earlier in this report attention was called to the fact that
actual consumption for heating was about 16.5% less than the
estimated consumption. Three influencing causes may explain
this gratifying result: conservatism and care in estimating,
peculiar excellence of installation and conscientious care
and faithfulness in plant operation.
While I wish, with unhesitating sincerity, to give Messrs.
Almirall & Company a large meed of credit, which is their just
due, I will insist, with equal sincerity, upon the vital importance
of faithful and intelligent plant operation. The firing
of coal is, really, an important art, and with less intelligent
operation and care the result might easily have been the opposite-a
substantial loss rather than a substantial gain. The saving
my judgment, largely due to efficient supervision and hearty
cooperation between foreman and operators. The foreman has
cost us $600.00 dollars for four months, and impressively
small sum in comparison with the fuel item alone.
Furthermore, there is a list of items of upkeep before me,
performed personally by the foreman, which if evaluated
in terms of the present expert pipe fitting costs, would go
a long way toward paying the foreman's salary. In view of
these facts the unwisdom of attempting to operate and maitain
the plant without competent supervision would be momumental.
I, therefore, most earnestly, request an appropriation of
$1,050 for the employment of a competent foreman for seven
months of the next season. This would provide sufficient
time to go over the entire plant before beginning operation,
and again after the close of the heating season. It is the
least we may expect to do if the plant is to be kept in first
class operating condition and a minimum of fuel consumed is
to be assured.
Proceeding upon the assumption that occupants of university
houses who get heat from the university will be expected to
pay the actual cost of heat, I make the following recommendation:
Fix the rate to include the proportional cost of labor and
repairs plus the actual cost of coal consumed. The cost of
labor and repairs is $6.00 per hundred square feet of radiation
and the coal consumed this season is $20.00 per hundred.
Allow the period of three years for readjustment from the
old steam radiation to the hot water radiation. This season
apply the rate to the steam radiation, consumers being thus
charged just the same as in the past. Next season apply the
rate to the steam radiation plus 1/3 the difference between
the water radiation and the steam radiation. The following
season add 2/3 of this difference, and the next season charge
for the water radiation on the same basis, it being understood
that the rate each season will be fixed by the actual
cost of coal consumed plus the proportionate cost of labor and
repairs. For an illustration take Pavillion 1, West Lawn. It
had 612 ft. of steam radiation, it now has 1062 ft. of water
radiation. The difference is 450 and one third of the difference
is 150. This season charge for 612 ft. at $20.00. Next
season charge for 762 ft. at a rate to be fixed next season
as above indicated. The following season charge for 912 ft.
at the rate to be fixed for that season. The next following
season, and thereafter, charge for 1062 ft at a rate to be fixed
each season.
Prof. C. M. Sparrow sent a communication to the Board requesting
the next extension of the heating system be from the end
of Dawson's Row to the rooms occupied by him on Monroe Hill,
which was granted.
A letter was read from Dean J. L. Manahan concerning the
desirability of emphasizing as professional training the curriculum
leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Health
Education. The matter was referred to the President with power
to act.
A letter was read from Dean Hough requesting formal authorization
from the Board for the admission of women 21 years of
age and over to the training course in sanitary inspectors,
whereupon the following motion, duly made and seconded, was
adopted:
RESOLVED, By the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia, That women of 21 years of age and over, who are
high school graduates, be admitted for training courses as
Sanitary Inspectors.
Upon the recommendation of the President a special
committee consisting of Messrs. McIntire, Duke and Scott was
appointed to study the question of laundry for the University
Hospital.
Upon the recommendation of the President the following
Instructors, Assistants, Scholarship and Fellowship holders
were appointed for the session of 1923-24:
| ASTRONOMY | |
| L. V. Robinson, M. A. (Texas) | Vanderbilt Fellow |
| BIBLICAL HISTORY AND LITERATURE | |
| C. S. Schmidling, | Assistant |
| BIOLOGY | |
| R. P. Carroll | Assistant |
| M. E. Yoder | Assistant |
| C. R. Bennett | Assistant |
| CHEMISTRY | |
| H. E. Shiver | Instructor |
| J. R. Branham | DuPont Fellow |
| R. B. Purdum | Teaching Fellow |
| A. C. G. Mitchell | Teaching Fellow |
| Walter Scholl | Teaching Fellow |
| L. A. Stewart | Teaching Fellow |
| C. A. Harris | Teaching Fellow |
| G. I. Lavin | Assistant |
| J. F. Hoffman | Assistant |
| G. N. Cassell | Assistant |
| J. D. Burfoot, Jr. | Assistant |
| R. W. McGahey | Assistant |
| J. D. Stewart | Assistant |
| W. T. Smith | Assistant |
| E. F. Hubbard | Assistant |
| W. S. Bruner | Assistant |
| A. B. Duncan | Assistant |
| J. R. Adams | Assistant |
| V. L. Denny | Assistant |
| SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND COMMERCE | |
| James Chappelle Justice | Assistant |
| Ovelle Lynwood Snyder | Assistant |
| Wilkie Wysor Hunt | Assistant |
| ECONOMICS | |
| George Talmade Starnes | Instructor |
| Raymond Bennett Pinchbeck | Instructor |
| Paxton Hope Howard | Assistant |
| Howard Daniel Goldman | Assistant |
| Robert Lee Hinds | Assistant |
| Lehman P. Nickell | Assistant |
| ENGLISH AND ENGLISH LITERATURE | |
| Arthur Kyle Davis, M. A. B. Ltt. | Instructor |
| Ernest Carson Ross, M. A. | Instructor |
| William Richardson Abbot, B. A. | Instructor |
| Isaac Jay Quesenberry, M. A. | Assistant |
| Lawrence H. Lee, Jr. | Assistant |
| Philip L. Scruggs | Assistant |
| LeRoy R. Cohen, B. A. | Assistant |
| Danner Lee Mahood, M. S. | Assistant |
| James Norris McPherson | Assistant |
| GERMANIC LANGUAGES | |
| Mrs. Sylvia Petrovic Faulkner | Assistant |
| HISTORY | |
| C. C. Walker | Assistant |
| LATIN | |
| Ernest Linwood Lehman, A.B., M.A., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor |
| George Dandridge Gibson | Instructor |
| Langbourne Meade Williams, Jr. | Instructor |
| MATHEMATICS: | |
| F. A. Wells | Instructor |
| Edgar Wilson Dare | Assistant |
| Harry F. Bauserman | Assistant |
| G. H. Echols | Assistant |
| John Glenn | Assistant |
| PHILOSOPHY | |
| Lyttleton Waddell, M. A. | Assistant |
| J. W. Avirett | Assistant |
| L. R. Cohen | Assistant |
| W. W. Koontz | Assistant |
| I. J. Quesenberry | Assistant |
| PHYSICS | |
| Preston B. Carwile | Teaching Fellow |
| Jesse W. Beams, Jr. | Teaching Fellow |
| ROMANIC LANGUAGES | |
| Seaborn Jones Flournoy | Assistant in French |
| Gurney Ervin Miller | Assistant in French |
| William Rogers Quynn | Assistant in French |
| Joel Permania Snider | Assistant in French |
| Coleman Carter Walker | Assistant in French |
| James Holtsclaw McCall | Instructor in Spanish |
| William Rogers Quynn | Instructor in Spanish |
| Oscar Arthur Kirkman | Instructor in Spanish |
| William Jefferson Judd | Assistant in Spanish |
| William Rogers Quynn | Assistant in Spanish |
| Charles Edward Ashley Knight | Assistant in Spanish |
| Seaborn Jones Flournoy | Assistant in Spanish |
| Robert Jordan Carner | Assistant in Spanish |
| ANATOMY | |
| W. B. Hubbard | Instructor |
| HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY | |
| James Wilkinson Jervey, Jr. | Assistant |
| James Ernest Kindred, M. D. | Assistant Professor $2,000.00 |
| EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT | |
| Frank McCutchan, M. D. | Instructor (No salary) |
| SURGERY | |
| R. M. Page, M. D. | Instructor (No salary) |
| W. W. Waddell, M. D. | Instructor in Pediatrics in Dispensary (No salary) |
| ENGINEERING | |
| M. A. Cohen | Assistant |
| A. W. Shelhorse | Assistant |
| D. W. Hesser | Assistant |
| A. W. Holt | Assistant |
| W. A. Abbott | Assistant |
| F. I. Morse | Assistant |
| Taylor Holt | Assistant |
| PHYSICAL TRAINING | |
| F. V. Watkins | Instructor |
| J. P. Baker | Instructor |
| M. E. Watkins | Instructor |
| LAW | |
| Theodore S. Cox, B.A., LL. B. | Graduate Assistant |
| Richard Davenport Gilliam, B. A. | Undergraduate Assistant |
| William Mills Neal, B. A. | Undergraduate Assistant |
| Manley Patton Caldwell | Undergraduate Assistant |
| Charles Newton Hulvey | Undergraduate Assistant |
| Millard Hatcher Patterson | Undergraduate Assistant |
| Charles Venable Minor | Assistant Librarian |
| FELLOWSHIPS | |
| Ernest C. Ross, M.A. | Board of Visitors' Fellowship in English |
| Danne Lee Mahood, M.S. | Board of Visitors' Fellowship in English |
| Lawrence Haywood Lee | Board of Visitors' Fellowship in French |
| Matthew Saunders Gibson | Board of Visitors' Fellowship in Spanish |
| M. S. Gibson, | Rives Fellowship in History |
| Raymond B. Pinchbeck, | Phelps-Stokes Fellowship |
| Robert T. Marsh, Jr. | John Y. Mason Fellowship |
| John W. Avirett, Jr. | Elizabeth B. Garrett Fellowship |
SCHOLARSHIPS
Robert Hancock Wood, Jr., (Aviator)
Ray Johnson, Charlottesville, Va.
Isabella Merrick Sampson
Malcolm Gilchrist Hibbert, Charlottesville, Va.
Kate Cabell Cox
W. T. Bowles
Henry Coalter Cabell
William Richardson Abbot, Jr.
Valentine Birely
W. A. Kindley, of Maryland
James Rufus Humphrey
James C. Justice
Isaac Carey
Paul C. Richards
George A. Pierce
J. Thompson Brown
W. C. Chamberlain, Jr.
State Teachers
Olin Addington, Snowflake, Va.
Walter T. Bowles, Sandiges, Va.
Carson M. Bradley, Luray, Va.
S. R. Butler, Benns Church, Va.
Robert P. Carroll, Winfall, Va.
Charlie Chapman, Luray Va.
Henry P. Creasy, Evington, Va.
George F. Dunn, Halifax, Va.
Paul Farmer, Altavista, Va.
R. J. Jones, Lawrenceville, Va.
Walter LeRoy Kilby, Hughes River, Va.
Lester G. Knibb, Cardwell, Va.
Robert Lee Marshall, Carter's Bridge, Va.
Joseph R. Mundie, Newton, Va.
Peters, J. S., Harrisonburg, Va.
R. B. Pinchbeck, Chula, Va.
Wilson Reynolds, 223 Randolph Ave, Danville, Va.
Henry H. L. Smith, Bealton, Va.
Boyd M. Steele, Stephens City, Va.
John T. Stewart, Portsmouth, Va.
Floyd F. Swertfeger, Carson, Va.
Thomas M. Thomas, Fredericksburg, Va.
William Totusek, Highland Springs, Va.
Joseph Vaughan, Lynchburg, Va.
Juluis E. West, Alexandria, Va.
J. T. Yager, Brightwood, Va.
McCormick Scholarship
Edwin L. Powell
Miller Scholarship
Joel Wilson Baker
The following Ryan Scholarship holders were elected for
the session of 1923-24:
| RYAN SCHOLARSHIPS | |
| Joel Permania Snider | District No. 1 |
| Antonio Gentile | District No. 2 |
| Albert Mason Smith | District No. 3 |
| James Dabney Burfoot, Jr. | District No. 4 |
| Edward Nash Hardy | District No. 5 |
| Noah D. Conner | District No. 6 |
| Henry Burr Gordon | District No. 7 |
| Thomas Brooke Howard | District No. 8 |
| L. J. Dillow | District No. 9 |
| Glenwood Michael VanLear | District No. 10 |
The request of Dean Hough for an appropriation of
$900.00 for the salary of a clerk in the Out Patient Department
of the Hospital for 1923-24 was declined.
A letter was read from the trustees of the Zeta Psi
Fraternity, to which had been granted a site on the grounds
of the University on which to erect a chapter house, requesting
that, in view of the fact that they would be unable to begin
erection of the said house in the immediate future, the
offer be kept open for the ensuing year. On motion, duly
made and seconded, the following was adopted:
RESOLVED, That the site for the Zeta Psi House be
reserved for them, unless the same become necessary for
college purposes, until we give them 6 months notice to
make other disposition of same.
Application of Beale and others for a site on the grounds
of the University on which to erect a chapter house, which is
to be a replica of Stratford, was referred to the Buildings
and Grounds Committee to select a suitable site and report to
the Board.
The following proposed contract between the University
and the State Department of Game and Inland Fisheries was
presented, read and approved, and the Rector was authorized
to execute the same on behalf of the Rector and Visitors:
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Richmond, Va.
This agreement is entered into this the 11th day of June
1923 between The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia, of Charlottesville, Va., and the Department
of Game and Inland Fisheries - Witnesseth - that for
and in consideration of the sum of one dollar and the
provisions of Chapter 93, Acts of the General Assembly
of Virginia, 1922, an Act for the establishment of State
Game Sanctuaries in this State, the said The Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia assigns to the
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries certain land described
as follows:
All the grounds, agricultural and woodland belonging to
the said Rector and Visitors of the University, consisting
of 484 acres, situated at Charlottesville, Va., in Albemarle
County, to be used by the said Department as a Game
Sanctuary for a period of ten years during which time no
wild birds or wild animals, except predatory birds and
animals, are to be disturbed or killed thereon by any
person. It is mutually understood and agreed that this
assignment shall not prevent nor interfere with any farming
or the operation of any other enterprise the owner
of said land may desire. The purpose of this assignment
being to create a refuge or haven where wild birds and
animals may be unmolested at all times and remain undisturbed
by trespassers and hunters. Given under our hands
and seals this the 11th day of June 1923.
Rector University of Virginia
LAND OWNER
COMMISSIONER
The question of providing bathing facilities for the female
students of the Summer Quarter who occupy dormitories of
the University was taken up and considered, and the following,
offered by Mr. Oliver, being duly seconded, was adopted:
RESOLVED, That a sum not exceeding One Thousand
and Two Hundred Dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated
for the purpose of installing baths in the basement
of the Cafeteria Building and for other necessary
improvements therein, and that such improvements be done
under the direction and supervision and in the discretion
of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, with the advice
of President Alderman and Doctor Lambeth.
The request of Dr. H. T. Marshall that the unexpended appropriation
for salaries in the School of Bacteriology and Pathology
for the session of 1922-23 be transferred to the laboratory
appropriation for said School, was granted.
On motion the meeting then adjourned.
Rector
Secretary
| Board of Visitors minutes June 11, 1923 | |