 | Board of Visitors minutes December 9, 1954 |  |
A called meeting of the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia was held on this date at 6:30 p.m. in the Dogwood Room of the University Commons, at
Charlottesville, in an informal dinner conference with representatives of the University Medical
School and Hospital. Board members present were the Rector, Barron F. Black, President Colgate
W. Darden, Jr., Visitors Barksdale, Coxe, Dunn, Emmett, Gravatt, McWane, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Smith,
and Wheeler. Absent: Visitors Gray, Howard, Mears, and Talbott. Present from the School of
Medicine were the Dean, Thomas H. Hunter, the Director of the Hospital, John M. Stacey, and
Professors Vincent Archer, Henry B. Mulholland, and William Parson.
Informal reports were given by the Dean and the Director on recent and current developments
in the Medical School and the Hospital, and on the role and the needs of each in the service
of the State. There followed a full discussion of the special problems of the Medical School in
research, in teaching, and in medical service, and the position of the Medical School in reference
to the general problem of the University's need for a closer relationship to the public and to
public education in Virginia
The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 p.m.
Rector
Secretary
| Board of Visitors minutes December 9, 1954 | |