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MR. MAHON'S REQUEST FOR A HEARING

Before taking up the business of the special meeting, the Rector presented a
letter from Mr. Bernard Mahon, the Commonwealth's Attorney of Spotsylvania County,
requesting a hearing before the Board to discuss certain problems of administration
at Mary Washington College. Mr. Mahon said that he had already discussed this matter
with President Darden and that his object was not a reconsideration of the decision in
the controversy over President Combs

President Darden said that his recollection of his conversation with Mr. Mahon was that it
was entirely concerned with the settlement of the Combs matter. He hoped, however, that the
Board would hear Mr. Mahon

The Board resolved that at the request of the President, Mr. Mahon be invited to appear
before the Board at the regular meeting on June 11th, but that the recent decision reached in
regard to President Combs would not be reopened at this hearing.