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NORTHERN VIRGINIA COLLEGE

The Rector and the President presented to the Board seven letters
recommending Ravensworth and Herndon as sites for the proposed Northern Virginia
College of the University, a plan and plat of the proposed Sunset Hills
development at Herndon, a report and summary of the membership and activities of
the Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia Extension Center, and a resolution
adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County on 6 March 1957 urging the
establishment of a branch of the University within Fairfax County, and offering
to consult further with the Board of Visitors regarding selection of a suitable
site and the providing of assistance to the proposed branch by the County.

The Board resolved, after extensive discussion, that it is the sense of
this Board that the University should establish a branch junior college in
Northern Virginia, providing that the conflicts and sharp differences of opinion
in that area can be reconciled so as to procure local support for the project,
that it is also the sense of the Board that a final decision be reached by the
Board no later than the April 27th meeting.

The Rector asked Mr. Bryan, Mr. Darden, and Mr. Smith to act as a special
committee to consult with some of the Northern Virginia legislators and others
in a final effort to reconcile conflicting opinions in that area.