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 | Board of Visitors minutes April 12, 1958 |  |
The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met on this date at 10:00
A.M. in the Office of the Chancellor of Mary Washington College, at Fredericksburg,
with the following present. The Rector, Frank Talbott, Jr.; President Colgate W.
Darden, Jr., and Visitors Berkeley, Bryan, Greear, Hartfield, McWane, Martin,
Pollock, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Smith, and Wheeler. Chancellor Grellet C. Simpson and
Bursar Edgar E. Woodward were present throughout the consideration of Mary
Washington College matters. Absent: Visitors Coxe, Emmett, Gravatt, Gray, Jones,
and Paschall.
The minutes of the meeting of 1 February 1958, previously distributed, were
approved as amended by the Rector.
MR. TALBOTT REELECTED RECTOR
The Visitors' attention having been drawn to the statutory requirement that a
Rector and Secretary be elected at this meeting, the Board unanimously resolved,
upon motion of Mr. Smith, that Mr. Talbott be reelected Rector for the four-year
term ending on 28 February 1962.
SECRETARY REELECTED
The Rector informed the Board that he anticipated the resignation of Mr.
Berkeley as the Board's Secretary at an early date, because of the pressures of
professional work, but pointed out that Mr. Berkeley's reelection would in no way
interfere with his resignation as soon as a replacement should be available. The
Board accordingly reelected Mr. Berkeley as Secretary for the four-year term ending
on 28 February 1962.
COMMITTEE ON STUDENT PUBLICATIONS APPOINTED
In response to a resolution of the Board, as noted below, the Rector appointed
as a special committee to study student publications, and to report back to the
Executive Committee with recommendations for action to be taken prior to the close
of the present session on June 9th, the following: Visitors Greear (chairman),
Bryan, and Martin.
GIFTS AND GRANTS
The President announced the following gifts and grants:
| From Mr. Valerian Lada-Mocrasky, set of 1914 Russian work on Asiatic Russia entitled "Aziatskaia Rossiia", valued at |
$1,200.00 |
| From an anonymous donor, for the James Southall Wilson Fellowship for the 1958-59 session |
$1,000.00 |
| From Mrs. A. G. A. Balz, for binding unbound volumes donated to the library from Dr. Balz's collection |
201.39 |
| From Mrs. Doris K. Neale, for the Doris K. Neale Fellowship for the 1958-59 session |
500.00 |
| From an anonymous donor, contribution for a debate prize for students majoring in economics and commerce |
150.00 |
| From the National Fund for Medical Education in support of the Medical School |
33,850.00 |
| From the American Medical Education Foundation, in support of the Medical School |
10,061.53 |
| From the English-Speaking Union, Charlottesville Branch, balance due on English-Speaking Union Fellowship for the 1957-58 session |
584.00 |
| From the University Hospital Auxiliary, to be used for the Hospital | 2,824.00 |
| From the Surgery Wives Club, to be used for the Hospital | 100.00 |
| From the Institute of Life Insurance, to cover cost of a workshop in Family Finance Education during the 1958 summer session |
3,000.00 |
| From the Virginia Engineering Foundation, to the Engineering School | 3,500.00 |
| From Mr. A. A. Hyde, to be added to the D. C. Hyde Memorial Fund | 500.00 |
| From the Cavalier Christmas Fund, to be added to the D. C. Hyde Memorial Fund |
200.00 |
| From various sources, to be added to the Lehman Memorial Fund | 160.00 |
| From Mrs. J. T. Wilson, to be added to the James T. Wilson Foundation | 1,000.00 |
| From the General Electric Educational and Charitable Fund, a contribution equal to those received under the General Electric Corporate Alumnus Program |
340.00 |
| From various sources, to be added to the Frank Lahey Fund | 505.00 |
| From various sources, to be added to the James T. Wilson Foundation | 764.00 |
| From the Duke Laboratory Foundation, to the Dept. of Dermatology and Syphilology for research |
500.00 |
| From Mr. Forrest Hyde, to be added to the Samuel Forrest Hyde Memorial Fellowship Fund, securities valued at |
1,199.81 |
| From the E. I. duPont de Nemours Company, for research under the direction of Dr. O. R. Harris of the School of Engineering |
18,041.00 |
| From the U. S. Army Signal Corps, for research under the direction of Dr. O. R. Harris, of the School of Engineering |
8,850.00 |
| From Merck and Company, continued research under the direction of Prof. R. T. Major, of the Dept. of Chemistry |
20,000.00 |
| From the American Trudeau Society, for research under the direction of Dr. J. B. Littlefield, of the School of Medicine |
3,264.00 |
| From the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, for continued research under the direction of Dr. A. T. Gwathmey, of the Dept. of Chemistry |
4,284.00 |
| From the Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratories, for research under the direction of Dr. O. R. Harris of the School of Engineering |
32,000.00 |
| From the U. S. Army, for research under the direction of Dr. A. R. Kuhlthau of the Ordnance Research Laboratory |
15,877.00 |
| From the Philadelphia Ordnance District, U. S. Army, for research under the direction of Dr. A. R. Kuhlthau, of the Ordnance Research Laboratory |
12,000.00 |
| From the Department of the Air Force, for continued research under the direction of Dr. F. L. Hereford of the Department of Physics |
14,200.00 |
| From the Department of the Air Force, for research under the direction of Prof. G. T. Whyburn of the Dept. of Mathematics |
5,735.00 |
| From the Department of the Navy, for research under the direction of the following members of the faculty |
|
| Dr. A. T. Gwathmey | 24,000.00 |
| Dr. W. R. Sandusky | 2,000.00 |
| Dr. A. R. Kuhlthau | 18,000.00 |
| Dr. A. R. Kuhlthau | 55,000.00 |
| From the U. S. Public Health Service, for research under the direction of the following members of the faculty |
|
| Dr. J. Rappaport | $2,300.00 |
| Dr. Vincent Hollander | 9,200.00 |
| Dr. Vincent Hollander | 8,800.00 |
| Dr. Vincent Hollander | 24,250.00 |
ELECTIONS
The following resolution was adopted
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the following persons be and they are hereby elected to the
faculty
Mr. William R. Manierre, II, as Instructor in English, as of September, 1958,
at a session salary of $5,500.
Mr. Nolan E. Smith as Instructor in English, as of September, 1958, at a session
salary of $5,000.
Dr. Benedict Nagler as Lecturer in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry,
as of March 1, 1958, at no salary from the University.
Dr. Quincy Wright as Professor of Foreign Affairs for three years, effective
in September, 1958, at a session salary of $12,500.
Dr. Harry J. Hyer as Instructor in Internal Medicine, as of May 1, 1958, his
salary to be paid by the D.A.S.R.
Mr. Archer Jones as Dean and Associate Professor of History at Clinch Valley
College, effective July 1, 1958, at an annual salary of $6,000, $5,500 as Associate
Professor and $500 for his duties as Dean, plus $880 for summer teaching.
Mr. James Kermit Mullins as Instructor in Engineering at Clinch Valley College
for the session 1958-59, at a session salary of $4,400.
Mr. John Benjamin Stonis as Librarian at Clinch Valley College, beginning
September 1, 1958, at an annual salary of $5,400 for 12 months' service.
Mr. John Graham as Instructor in English as of September 1958, at a session
salary of $5,000.
Mr. Eugene Albert as Junior Instructor in Mathematics as of September, 1958,
at a session salary of $4,500, $2,250 of his salary for teaching from State funds
and $2,250 for research from a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Dumas Malone as Visiting Professor of History for the session of 1958-59
at no salary from the University, upon terms as set forth below.
Dr. Harold Anthony O'Hern, Jr., as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
for three years, effective in September, 1958, at a session salary of $6,900.
Mr. A. P. Batson as Instructor in Physics, beginning in September, 1958, at a
session salary of $5,500.
Dr. Will Edgerton as Lecturer in Chinical Psychology in the Department of
Neurology and Psychiatry, as of May 1, 1958, at no salary from the University.
RE-ELECTION
The Board adopted the following resolution
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the following re-election be and it is hereby made
Dr. Donald Rathbun, Instructor in Neurology, for one year, beginning July 1,
1958.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
The following resolution was adopted
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the following faculty members be and they are hereby granted leave
of absence without pay
Mr. Martin Lindsey Cowen, Professor of Law, from September 1, 1958, to July 1,
1959, to do graduate study at Harvard University.
Mr. Eric Wolf, Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of
Sociology, for the session of 1958-59, to serve as Visiting Assistant Professor at
Yale University and to do some research.
Mr. Ernest C. Mead, Jr., Assistant Professor of Music, for the session of
1957-58, to complete work toward his doctorate at Harvard University.
Mr. W. S. Weedon, Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of that Department, for
the second semester of the session of 1958-59.
RESIGNATIONS
The Board adopted the following resolutions
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the resignations of the following persons be and they are hereby
accepted
Mr. Benjamin S. Martin, Head Football Coach, as of February 1, 1958.
Mr. Frederick L. Gwynn, Associate Professor of English, as of the end of the
session of 1957-58, to take a position as head of the Department of English at
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Dr. Patricia M. Andrews, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, as of April 1,
1958, to enter private practice.
We wish for them the highest success in their new undertakings.
APPOINTMENTS
The President announced the following appointments:
Miss Margaret Tyson as Dean of the School of Nursing, effective July 1, 1958.
Mr. Richard Voris as Head Football Coach, effective as of February 1, 1958.
Mr. James W. Cole, Professor of Chemistry, as Dean of the Extension Division,
effective September 1, 1958.
Mr. Overton H. Taylor, of Harvard University, as Distinguished Visiting
Scholar for the six months' period of August 1, 1958, to February 1, 1959, at a
salary of $6,600. His salary is to come from the funds of the Thomas Jefferson
Center.
Mr. George Williams Keeton, Dean of the Faculty of Laws, University College,
London, as Thomas Jefferson Visiting Scholar for the second semester of the 1958-59
session at a salary of $5,600, the funds to come from the Thomas Jefferson Center.
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS
In accordance with the resolution adopted by the Board of Visitors of The
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia on July 14, 1945, authorizing the
President to give the proper professorial standing on the faculty to officers of
the armed services on duty at the University in the Reserve Officers' Training
Corps program, President Darden announced the following appointments
Captain Harry I. Miller as Assistant Professor of Air Science effective in the
summer of 1958, at no salary from the University.
Lieutenant Colonel Graydon F. Fredrickson as Professor of Military Science and
Tactics, effective in the summer of 1958, at no salary from the University.
Lieutenant Richard E. Gleason as Assistant Professor of Naval Science,
effective in the summer of 1958, at no salary from the University.
Major Richard F. B. Gimmi, Jr., as Associate Professor of Air Science,
effective in the summer of 1958, at no salary from the University.
Lieutenant (jg) William W. Conder as Assistant Professor of Naval Science,
effective in the summer of 1958, at no salary from the University.
Captain Robert B. Beaumont as Assistant Professor of Military Science and
Tactics, as of the summer of 1958, at no salary from the University.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert V. Allen, USMC, as Associate Professor of Naval
Science, effective in the summer of 1958, at no salary from the University.
PROMOTIONS
The Board adopted the following resolution:
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the following promotions be and they are hereby made
Dr. Howard Ashbury, Instructor in Neurology and Psychiatry, to Assistant
Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, as of March 1, 1958, at no salary
from the University.
Dr. Robert J. Morgan, Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, to
Associate Professor of Political Science, as of September, 1958, at a session
salary of $7,000.
Dr. Randolph T. Major, from Acting Professor of Chemistry, part-time, to
Professor of Chemistry, part-time, effective in September, 1958.
UNCOLLECTIBLE HOSPITAL ACCOUNTS
The following resolution was adopted
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the Hospital Accounts Committee be and it is hereby authorized to
charge off as uncollectible accounts Schedules 736, 739, 740, 743, 746, 747, 750,
753 and 754, aggregating $101,711.86, as recommended by it.
There followed a discussion of the heavy financial burden imposed on the
University by the failure of county and city governments to provide adequately for
the care of indigents at the University Hospital.
The Board resolved that the Medical Committee make a fresh study of the
problem of indigent hospital costs and proceed with a definite plan for remedial
action, preferably through the General Assembly.
DEPARTMENT OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE NAMED
In response to a letter of 30 January 1958 from Dean Hunter presented to the
Board by the President, the Board adopted the following resolution
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that the
Department of Social and Environmental Medicine in the School of Medicine be and it
is hereby renamed the Department of Preventive Medicine.
FEES FOR LIBRARY AND STUDENT UNION
President Darden discussed the progress on Newcomb Hall and plans for its
opening, and read to the Board the following letter from the Comptroller which it
had not been practicable for the Board to consider on February 1st
Charlottesville
30 January 1958
I note that a copy of Mr. Minor's opinion concerning the authority
of the Board to reduce the library fee has been sent to you. Based on
this opinion, I should like to recommend that the Board be asked this
Saturday to reduce the library fee from the present $20.00 to $6.00, and
that it be made applicable to all students enrolled. Based on the
estimated enrollment next session of 5,000, this will yield $30,000, an
amount more than adequate to cover the principal and interest charges.
I should like to recommend that the Board establish a student union
fee to defray the major part of the cost of operating Newcomb Hall. I
should like to recommend that this fee be $14.00, which would yield
$70,000, based on the projected enrollment next session. Thus, the
total charge to students would remain the same.
If at all possible, I hope that the Board can consider the matter
this Saturday as we should like to make the change in as many catalogues
as possible, as well as in other notices which have to be prepared very
soon for distribution to entering students.
President
After discussion the Board adopted the following resolution:
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that the
present Library Building Fee be and it is hereby reduced from twenty dollars
($20.00) a session to six dollars ($6.00) a session,
RESOLVED further that a Student Union Fee of fourteen dollars ($14.00) a
session be and it is hereby established in support of the operating costs of
Newcomb Hall,
RESOLVED further that payment of both the Library Building Fee and the Student
Union Fee be required of all regularly enrolled students in the University,
effective at the beginning of the 1958-59 session.
GRADUATE SCHOOL FEES AND LOANS
The President read to the Board the following letter
Charlottesville
February 21, 1958
Office of the Dean
Charlottesville, Virginia
May I take this opportunity to submit the attached proposal for
revising the statement of fees on pages 34 and 35 in the catalogue of
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. If these proposals meet with
your approval, would you please submit them to the Board for their
action if this is necessary.
Furthermore, I would like to establish some uniformity of overall
graduate student fees and costs, for students in all departments of the
Graduate School, where, because of the diverse subject matters to be
studied, there are considerable differences in the proportion of course
tuition. It seems to me, that a candidate for the Doctor's degree should
pay full fees for at least two academic session while he is completing
his course program and the reduced fees for one or more academic sessions
while he is completing his research, dissertation, and other requirements,
of if the student requires more than three or four years because of
part-time employment, he should pay the equivalent, i.e., half-time fees
for four academic sessions plus the additional necessary sessions of
part-time fees.
Finally, I should like to propose that a limited amount of University
loan funds be made available to graduate students on a special basis.
Mr. Moyer advises me that some of the special loan funds do not seem to
be much used. Graduate students are mature, most of them with family
responsibilities, and the possession of a Doctor's degree means an
increase in their future salaries of up to a $1000 a year. Therefore, it
would be a sound financial investment for a graduate student to incur
even a substantial debt, in order to devote full-time to his degree
program and earn the degree promptly, rather than working part-time and
delaying his degree several years. Our regular graduate fellowships
will nearly support a single student for the nine months session, but it
is useless to offer a stipend of $1000 plus the tuition fee to a man
with a wife and one or two small children. There are even some single
students who must devote so much time and energy to an outside job for
support, that they are unable to earn the very high grades necessary for
them to compete successfully for a du Pont Fellowship, so they are caught
in a kind of vicious circle of never getting their head sufficiently
above water to be able to proceed full-time with their graduate work.
If these considerations seem to you to have some merit, would you be
willing to authorize a committee consisting of Mr. Shea, Mr. Vaughan,
myself and perhaps others, to submit some definite recommendations for
making loans in special cases, up to $1000 or $1200 a year at an interest
rate of 3%? With the prospect of additional fellowship programs from
both the federal government and charitable foundations, there will not be
a large number of cases requiring loans of this magnitude. However,
there will be individual cases in which a substantial loan will make a
great deal of difference.
Dean
During the discussion that followed, President Darden noted that the proposals
had been studied and were favored by the Comptroller. The Board adopted the
following resolution
RESOLVED that the Catalogue of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences be
revised, effective for the session of 1958-59, so that the two paragraphs under the
heading PART-TIME FEES shall read as follows
"Students taking only one subject pay one-third of the regular
tuition fee, plus the library building, medical, Student Union, and
student activities fees. Students taking only two subjects pay one-half
of the regular tuition fee, plus all additional fees. Students taking
more than two courses are considered full-time students and pay all
tuition and auxiliary fees.
"Students not in residence at the University who wish to return to
take an examination, submit a thesis or dissertation, or receive a degree
pay a $5.00 tuition fee for that semester and are exempt from all other
fees. Students in residence who have completed their course programs,
and who are registered for thesis, dissertation or research, pay a
$15.00 tuition fee each semester, plus the library building, medical,
Student Union, and student activities fees."
RESOLVED further that the President be and he is hereby authorized to proceed
to set up a special loan plan for graduate students at low interest as proposed in
Dean Hammond's letter.
BOWLES PROPERTY
President Darden laid before the Board a letter of 10 January 1958 from
William S. Hildreth proposing the purchase by the University of the Bowles tract on
the old Ivy Road (adjacent to the Hulvey and McGavock properties at a price of
$2,000 an acre. The President also presented a letter and enclosure from the
Comptroller as follows
Charlottesville
11 March 1958
I enclose copy of Mr. William Hanckel's letter concerning the
above property. Mr. O'Grince and I have examined the property and
recommend that the Board of Visitors be requested to authorize the
purchase of the property, under the terms set forth in Mr. Hanckel's
letter.
This property will be ideal for a faculty housing development. Mr.
Hanckel has informed me that Mrs. Bowles has turned down an offer
substantially higher than that at which she has offered the property to
the University, as she would much prefer its sale to the University.
Enclosure
President
Real Estate Broker
Keene P. O.
Albemarle County
Virginia
March 5, 1958
Charlottesville, Virginia
Confirming our conversation of today, Mrs. Bowles would like to
work out an arrangement whereby she would sell the University 39 acres
less 9.818 acres. This 9.818 acres she will agree to sell the
University when she desires to upon giving the University 90 day notice.
The University would pay Mrs. Bowles $58,364 for the 29.182 acres
now and $19,636 for the 9.818 acres with delivery of same.
This offer is made to the University of Virginia and to no one else.
After further discussion the Board resolved that the proposal to purchase the
Bowles property be referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, and that
the Committee be authorized after examining the property, to commit the Board to
its purchase if that should seem desirable.
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS AND THE `SPECTATOR'
There was an extensive discussion involving two problems relating to student
publications (1) the recurring debate within the University over the propriety of
subsidizing, through fees imposed upon all students, student publication whose
editors often narrowly restrict their function to serving minority groups, and (2)
the complaints made against the Mid-Winters Issue of The Virginia Spectator.
Discussion of the Spectator centered around two documents. (1) the Report of
the Faculty Committee appointed by the President, and (2) President Darden's letter
to the Spectator Corporation Board of the Jefferson Society, as set forth below
The Lawn
Your special committee on the Paunch issue of The Spectator submits
its report herewith. You asked us to determine whether or not this issue
of The Spectator discredited the name of the University of Virginia, and
if so, whether to a degree sufficient to warrant your bringing the matter
before the Student Council.
You have asked for a relative judgment, and we express our judgment
in relative terms. Our unanimous opinion is that the Paunch issue does
discredit the name of the University of Virginia. The degree of the
offense, however, we think should be measured by comparison with the
much more serious discredit brought upon the University by contemporaneous
issues of The Cavalier Daily.
Measured in this or any other way, however, the objectionable
character of Paunch does not seem to us primarily a problem for punitive
action. The irresponsibility of Paunch and The Cavalier Daily alike seem
to us natural products of the University's present policy of permitting
student sovereignty, one can hardly punish students for doing something
for which they have never realized they might be held responsible. As to
the past, therefore, we see little to be gained by taking the problem to
the Student Council.
As to the future, which is the important aspect of the problem, here,
too, we see little to be gained by taking the problem to the Student
Council. We believe that the important question for the future raised by
the Paunch magazine is this. Are students at the University of Virginia
to continue to enjoy license or are they hereafter to be held responsible
to University authority? We believe that the necessarily normative
function of any educational institution makes the latter policy
preferable here, and moreover we believe that the majority of the people
of the Commonwealth favor the latter policy. In any case, since this is
a question which the student body cannot ultimately decide, we conclude
that there is little reason to take the Paunch problem to the Student
Council.
Since you specifically requested that the committee make no positive
recommendation for the disposition of this case, we assume that this
report completes our work. We ask that you accept the report and
discharge the committee.
Charlottesville
April 2, 1958.
University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va.
I send you this note to confirm the views expressed to you in our
talk a few days ago about the Spectator. Since Mr. Carlson, the Editor,
is not eligible to continue the direction of the magazine, because of
academic probation, you will be required to appoint a new editor and
approve the staff selected by him. In doing this I wish you to bear in
mind that though you act as the Board chosen by the Jefferson Society
which owns Spectator, you act also as representatives of the University.
In fact as in the public understanding, a magazine published by a student
group at the University, using University buildings and under the control
of a society of the University with long and distinguished history, has
an important sanction from the University. The public may with reason
judge the University accordingly. The University's reputation is dear to
all of us who serve it and love it. It is not the property of one small
group to be dealt with in the uncontrolled judgment of that group,
however honest that judgment may be.
I do not share the warm approval of the recent "Paunch" issue
expressed by the Student Council. There runs through it, especially in
the jokes, coarseness and vulgarity which are utterly out of keeping
with the innate good taste which has distinguished the University of
Virginia in the past and which we hope will mark it in the future.
Moreover, one article - "The Decline and Fall of American Humor" was
plagiarized directly from an editorial in The News Leader, but, as the
editor of that paper says, "with a butcher's hand."
It is not enough to plead the tendencies of the times as an excuse
for commonness. The publication of smutty and, in some instances,
utterly revolting jokes and questionable stories cannot be justified as
necessary in order to make a student publication sell. This is a form
of intellectual prostitution.
Universities are under an enduring obligation to establish and
maintain standards that are calculated to lift the intellectual and
spiritual level of the societies of which they are a part. To pander to
that which is unworthy for the sake of profit or cheap popularity, as
does the last issue of Spectator, is to betray the great tradition of
which our universities and colleges are at once the inheritors and the
protectors.
The editors of Spectator do not act for themselves alone. They act
for an old and honorable society which bears the name of the founder of
this University, and they act for the University, the founding of which
was the crowning achievement of his long and useful life. If students
wish, acting only for themselves and over their own names, to compete in
the open market place with the salacious and offensive publications
found there, they may do so and take their chances with others engaged
in such activities, even though I would deeply regret such action. But
they should not be permitted to associate with themselves, in order to
lend respectability to such ventures, the name of this University.
As I told you when you were good enough to meet with me earlier this
week, I shall discuss this matter with the Board at its April meeting
and I shall then talk with you further.
After further discussion, during which President Darden pointed out that any
action by the Board affecting student publications ought to be taken during term
(i.e., prior to Final Day, June 9th), the Board adopted two resolutions as follows
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that, having
taken notice of the President's letter of 2 April 1958 to the Spector
Corporation Board of the Jefferson Society, publishers of The Virginia Spectator,
this Board approves the position taken by the President.
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that the
Rector appoint a special committee to study student publications, and their
financial support, and report back to the Executive Committee of the Board as
soon as possible.
NORTHERN VIRGINIA COLLEGE
The Rector, the President, and the Secretary laid before the Board numerous
resolutions, telegrams, and letters relative to the permanent site of the branch
college in Northern Virginia. These messages were, as usual, in favor of the
Board's choice of the Bowman tract at Sunset Hills by an overwhelming ratio,
roughly ten to one. These included a resolution from the Washington, D. C.
Alumni, the University's largest Alumni chapter, endorsing the Board's action.
The President stated that the draft of a deed of conveyance from the Messrs.
Bowman for the Sunset Hills tract had been approved by the attorneys for the
Bowmans and for the University. President Darden said that he could not ask the
Board to approve execution of the deed today because the Governor has not yet given
approval of the acceptance of the tract, and the Governor's approval is required
by statute before the University can accept any gift which may involve future costs
to the State. Regret was expressed that this delay might prove costly to the
Bowmans. The Board adopted the following resolution.
RESOLVED that the President and other administrative officers of the
University be and they are hereby directed to accept and execute a deed of
conveyance from the Messrs. Bowman for the Sunset Hills tract, in the form agreed
upon by the attorneys for the respective parties, as soon as the Governor's approval
shall have been obtained in accordance with statutory requirements.
The Rector read to the Board a letter of 10 April 1958 from Mr. C. Harrison
Mann, enclosing a resolution of February 25th from the Alexandria City Council and
a resolution of March 26th adopted at an adjourned meeting of the Board of
Supervisors of Fairfax County, and requesting a statement of the University's
intentions regarding choice of a permanent site in Northern Virginia for the
branch college, which is now occupying quarters at Bailey's Cross Roads.
The Board resolved, after a brief discussion, that the Secretary again convey
to Mr. Mann the text of the Board's Resolution of February 1st approving the Sunset
Hills tract.
The Visitors also expressed their approval of the statement issued to the
press by the Rector following the February 1st Board meeting, and instructed the
Secretary to send to Mr. Mann a copy of that statement also, as follows
"The Board favors and has voted to accept the Sunset Hills tract
offered by the Messrs. Bowman. Its decision is based on the
conviction that the site will best serve the needs of the communities
involved considering present and future requirements."
Members continued to concur in the President's plan to continue college
classes at Bailey's Cross Roads, in accordance with needs, for some years after
the permanent college shall have been established at Sunset Hills.
CLINCH VALLEY COLLEGE FACULTY HOUSING
The Rector reported that on March 3rd the Executive Committee had authorized
the execution by the President of a contract with the E. L. Ford Construction
Company for erection of faculty housing units at the Clinch Valley College at a
cost of $127,888.00 as approved by the Governor on February 26th.
The Board resolved that the foregoing action of the Executive Committee be
approved and that the signed resolution of the Committee be filed with the minutes
of today's Board meeting.
BABCOCK AND WILCOX COMPANY CONTRACT
It was also reported by the Rector that the Babcock and Wilcox Co. contract
for the Atomic Reactor, as considered by the Board last October, had been
revised by the respective attorneys, and that the Executive Committee had approved
its execution by the President in its revised form.
The Board resolved that the Executive Committee's favorable action on the
Babcock and Wilcox Co. contract be approved, and that a copy of the contract be
placed in the University's official file of contracts.
EXCHANGE OF PORTRAITS WITH VIRGINIA MUSEUM
President Darden read to the Board a letter from the Director of the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts (as set forth below) and presented also photographs of the two
portraits discussed by Mr. Cheek, together with communications from Mr. Charles W.
Smith, Chairman of the Department of Art, and Mr. William B. O'Neal, Director of
the University Museum, recommending the proposed exchange.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Boulevard & Grove Ave - Richmond, 20
March 13, 1958
President
Charlottesville, Virginia
Our mutual friend and benefactor, Mrs. Preston Davie, has now given
each of our institutions a work of art. To the University in 1956 came a
small (25 3/8″h × 19 1/2″w) portrait of Raleigh, and to the Museum in
1957, a larger (45″h × 32 1/2″w) portrait of Burke. The official
appraisals by French and Company are. Raleigh $7,500, Burke $8,500. I
enclose photographs of each portrait.
You most generously lent the Raleigh portrait to us for our England's
World of 1607 exhibition, staged during the spring and summer of 1957 as
our contribution to the Jamestown Festival; and since the closing of this
display the portrait has been on view in our gallery devoted to English
art of the 16th and 17th centuries. Here we have contemporary portraits
of persons related historically to Virginia. Sir Thomas Dale, James I
and his wife, Anne of Denmark, etc., including a rare painting of William
Byrd I, as a boy, when he was in England being "educated".
The Raleigh portrait adds so much to this appropriate and growing
group that our Trustees and Staff would like very much to make the
arrangement permanent. Also, we already have a portrait by Copley, who
painted the Burke. Therefore, we have the following proposal to make to
you.
We would like to give you the Burke in return for the Raleigh. Mrs.
Davie has been consulted about this and is entirely agreeable. Also, Mr.
William B. O'Neal, Curator of your Museum of Fine Arts at the University,
has personally inspected both portraits and written a report (copy
attached) giving his favorable reactions to our proposal.
We hope that the exchange will also appeal to you, and that it soon
can be consummated officially. Here, apparently, we have one of those
rare occasions where all concerned will be benefitted.
Director
The Board resolved that the President be authorized to proceed with the exchange
of the Raleigh portrait for the Burke portrait as recommended and as approved by
the donor of both portraits, Mrs. Preston Davie.
THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS
President Darden presented to the Board a letter of 20 February 1958 from
Professor Lewis M. Hammond, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
enclosing and recommending approval of the following memorandum:
Charlottesville, Virginia
February 12, 1958
553 Cabell Hall
and
The Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Fellowships in History and Political Science
1. The Board of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation has recently adopted the following resolution. That there be
established "not later than the college year 1959-60 the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Fellowships paying $1,500.00 per annum plus
tuition, in general along the lines set forth in the Memorandum of July
10, 1957, from Mr. Oron J. Hale, Chairman of the Department of History,
to Mr. Colgate W. Darden, Jr., President of the University, and
contribute up to $5,000.00 per year towards such Fellowships, with the
understanding that this Foundation would match the amount put up by the
University up to $5,000.00 and would, if Fellows of the desired type in
sufficient number can be obtained, put up additional amounts, it being
contemplated that the Foundation would in such case contribute at least
$15,000.00 per year towards the expense of these Fellowships and quite
possibly even more in the future."
2. It is recommended that this offer be accepted and that the
proposed fellowships be described and awarded on the following terms
"From five to ten fellowships with income of not less
than $1500 plus tuition fee. These fellowships,
provided by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
with a view to perpetuating the spirit and ideals of
Thomas Jefferson, are awarded competetively to
beginning or advanced graduate students in History
and Political Science by the Dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, upon the recommendation
of the respective Departments. Preference will be
given to applicants who expect to make a career of
college teaching and whose interests focus generally
upon the history, ideas and institutions of the Age
of Jefferson. The fellowships are renewable upon
recommendation of the Department concerned."
3. These Fellowships, with tuition, would amount to $1730 for
resident Virginians and $1960 for non-residents. To finance the program
for approximately ten fellows would require $20,000 annually, of which the
University would contribute $5,000 and the Foundation $15,000. The
proposal that the program be initiated with an equal amount ($5,000) from
the Foundation and the University of Virginia, with the Foundation
contributing up to $15,000 as suitable candidates are selected, seems
entirely reasonable. In the first year probably no more than five awards
would be made.
4. It is recommended that the fellowship proposals of the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation be accepted.
Chairman
Department of History
Chairman
Department of Political Science
The Board adopted after discussion the following resolution
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that the
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Fellowships in History and Political Science be and
they are hereby established, effective at the beginning of the 1959-1960 session,
in accordance with the foregoing Memorandum of 12 February 1958, from the
Departments of History or Political Science, which is hereby approved and adopted,
RESOLVED FURTHER that the University of Virginia shall contribute five
thousand dollars ($5,000.00) annually, beginning with the session of 1959-1960,
toward support of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Fellowships,
RESOLVED FURTHER that the offer of The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to
contribute at least fifteen thousand dollars annually toward support of the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Fellowships, beginning with the session of 1959-1960
(provided that in this and each succeeding session applicants approved by the
Department of History or by the Department of Political Science are available in
sufficient numbers and quality to require this sum or more) be and it is hereby
gratefully accepted.
THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION PROFESSORSHIP
President Darden informed the Board that there exists an opportunity to
procure as a member of the Faculty the noted historian and Jefferson scholar,
Mr. Dumas Malone, and at the same time to encourage and assist Mr. Malone in
completing his widely acclaimed biography of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Darden reported
that the following resolution had been adopted by the Board of Directors of the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation at that Board's December, 1957 meeting:
RESOLVED: That the Board, having considered the report of its
Education Committee, hereby authorizes the officers of the Foundation to
enter into a contract with Mr. Dumas Malone containing substantially the
following provisions, the officers being authorized however to make such
changes in the understanding as may be within the general spirit of the
arrangement and may be approved by them;
(1) The Foundation will arrange with the University of Virginia
for the appointment by the University of Mr. Malone as Thomas Jefferson
Foundation Professor, effective July 1, 1958. Mr. Malone's salary as
such professor will be fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) per year
which will be paid by the Foundation. The employment, subject to usual
provisions as to satisfactory service, retirement for reasons of
health, etc. will be for a period terminating at the end of the college
year ending June 30, 1963.
(2) To replace certain insurance benefits which will lapse upon Mr.
Malone's resignation from Columbia the Foundation will on July 1, 1958
set up a trust fund of $7,000.00 with the Peoples National Bank of
Charlottesville as Trustee with such terms as Mr. Malone may approve. As
this fund is intended to take the place of insurance, presumably the
income will be accumulated until Mr. Malone's death and the principal
and accumulated income then paid to his estate or as he may otherwise
direct.
(3) The Foundation will pay the expense of moving Mr. Malone's
household goods to Charlottesville.
(4) Beginning with the college year 1959-1960 Mr. Malone would
give a seminar course during each regular session at the University and
would continue his work on his life of Jefferson. It is contemplated
that Volume III of that work would be completed in 1959, Volume IV
in 1961 and Volume V in 1963.
RESOLVED FURTHER That the Foundation enter into a contract or
understanding with the University of Virginia and/or one of its funds
under which the University and/or such fund would
1. Provide Mr. Malone with office space in the Alderman Library
when he takes up residence in Charlottesville.
2. Provide Mr. Malone with a half-time secretary.
3. Establish not later than the college year 1959-1960 the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Fellowships paying $1,500.00 per annum plus tuition,
in general along the lines set forth in the Memorandum of July 10, 1957
from Mr. Oron J. Hale, Chairman of the Department of History, to Mr.
Colgate W. Darden, Jr., President of the University, and contribute up to
$5,000.00 per year towards such Fellowships, with the understanding that
this Foundation would match the amount put up by the University up to
$5,000.00 and would, if Fellows of the desired type in sufficient
number can be obtained, put up additional amounts, it being contemplated
that the Foundation would in such case contribute at least $15,000.00
per year towards the expense of these Fellowships and quite possibly
even more in the future.
The President also presented and expressed his approval of the following
letters.
Charlottesville, Virginia
February 14, 1958
553 Cabell Hall
The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Foundation Professor of History in the University of
Virginia
1. The Corcoran Department of History recommends appointment
of Dr. Dumas Malone as Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History,
effective July 1, 1959, and that during the session 1958-1959, when Dr.
Malone will be on sabbatical leave from Columbia University, he be
appointed Visiting Professor of History in the University of Virginia.
The terms of the appointment are those stated in the "Resolution For The
Board of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation," of
which paragraph one specifies the grants and salary to be paid to
Professor Malone by the Foundation. Salary and Foundation grants will
amount to $15,000 annually.
2. In line with the above-mentioned Resolution it is further
recommended that beginning with the session 1959-1960, Professor Malone
offer a seminar in "The Age of Jefferson" during each regular session,
and direct such studies and dissertations as may develop from his
seminar or his work in the Department of History.
3. If this recommended appointment requires justification,
the following points should be emphasized. Professor Malone is one of
the most distinguished American historians, he holds earned and honorary
degrees from Yale, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Emory and Rochester, he was
the editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, the
greatest achievement of cooperative scholarship ever undertaken in the
field of American history, he is engaged in writing and publishing a
multi-volumed life of Thomas Jefferson, which will be the definitive
biography of the founder of this University, his appointment in the
Department of History will greatly advance our graduate program and
proposed fellowship program in Jefferson studies, and will make Professor
Malone's services available to the Department for two years after the
resignation of Professor Abernethy. This latter point is one of
considerable importance to the Department owing to Professor
Abernethy's impending retirement.
Chairman
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
Charlottesville, Va.
February 24, 1958
University of Virginia
I concur with the Department of History in recommending that Dr.
Dumas Malone be appointed Visiting Professor of History, without salary,
for the academic year 1958-59 beginning July 1, 1958. During this
time, Dr. Malone will be on sabbatical leave from Columbia University.
It is my understanding that he will receive a supplemental research
grant from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
Dean
College of Arts and Sciences
Charlottesville, Va.
February 24, 1958
University of Virginia
I transmit to you the recommendation of the Corcoran Department of
History, with my concurrence, that Dr. Dumas Malone be appointed Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Professor of History effective July 1, 1959, for a
term of three years, at a twelve month salary of $7,500 per year.
In accordance with the recent "Resolution for the Board of
Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation" on this subject,
it is understood that the Foundation will pay an additional $7,500 on a
twelve months annual basis as research grant to Dr. Malone. The salary
for the professorship will also come from the foundation grant.
Professor Malone's duties as Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor
of History will be to offer a seminar in "The Age of Jefferson" during
each regular session and to direct such studies and dissertations as may
develop from his seminar work in the Department of History.
I enclose Mr. Hale's letter which in turn includes some biographical
data. If you wish more, I will ask the Department of History to furnish
it.
Dean
After discussion the Board adopted the following resolutions
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that the offer
of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to pay to Mr. Dumas Malone, as a member
of the University of Virginia Faculty and biographer of Thomas Jefferson, the sum
of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) annually in salary and research grants (in
addition to certain other perquisites, as contracted for between the Foundation and
Mr. Malone), beginning on 1 July 1958 and continuing at least until 30 June 1963,
be and it is hereby gratefully accepted by the University.
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that Dr. Dumas
Malone be and he is hereby elected to the Faculty of the University of Virginia as
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Visiting Professor of History for the session of 195859,
upon terms arranged with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that Dr. Dumas
Malone be and he is hereby elected as Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of
History, effective on 1 July 1959, for a term of three years, upon terms arranged
with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
RESOLVED FURTHER that the University will furnish to Mr. Malone during the
period of his professorship half-time secretarial assistance, and that the
University will provide adequate shelving for Mr. Malone's books to be placed in a
study room in the Alderman Library which room shall be reserved by the University
Librarian for Mr. Malone's exclusive use.
LAW PROFESSORSHIPS, SPECIAL CHAIRS
President Darden read to the Board the following letter
University
Charlottesville, Virginia
December 2, 1957
I take pleasure in quoting the resolution unanimously adopted at a
meeting of the University of Virginia Law School Foundation October 11,
1957, as follows
"Whereas it has been proposed that there be three chairs
for distinguished professors in the Law School and that the
regular salaries of the occupants of such chairs be
supplemented by grants from the Law School Foundation and
endowment funds available to the University,
Resolved that, if the Board of Visitors of the University
shall provide for annual grants from University endowment
funds of $2,000 each to the occupants of three chairs for
distinguished professors in the Law School, until further
action of this Committee the Law School Foundation will make
annual grants of the same amount to the occupants of such
chairs payable at the same time and in the same manner as the
grants provided by the Board of Visitors."
Executive Secretary
Law School Foundation
The Board adopted after discussion the following resolution
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that three
special professorships in the School of Law be and they are hereby established as
named chairs in accordance with the Board's resolution of 7 June 1957 and the
resolution adopted by the University of Virginia Law School Foundation on 11 October
1957, with special compensation to be from local endowment funds and payable for
summer work only.
Members suggested that the President proceed in this matter, and that he
nominate the professors for approval at the Annual Meeting on June 14th.
DEATH OF PROFESSOR SAMUEL A. VEST
The death of Dr. Samuel Alexander Vest on April 6th was announced to the Board
by President Darden. Professor of Urology and Chairman of the Department of
Urology at the time of his death, Dr. Vest had served on the faculty of the School
of Medicine since 1939.
There were expressions of the affection and esteem in which Dr. Vest was held,
and the Secretary was directed to record in the permanent minutes and to convey to
Mrs. Vest the deep sense of loss felt by the Board, and the gratitude of the
Visitors for Dr. Vest's distinguished and devoted services to the University.
ENGINEERING BUILDING DESIGN
President Darden presented a letter of 3 April 1958 from Mr. Lawrence R.
Quarles, Dean of the School of Engineering, recommending the employment of
Commonwealth Engineers and Architects Associated (Mr. Fred Q. Saunders and
associates) to design the new engineering building.
The Board resolved that Dean Quarles' proposed employment of Commonwealth
Engineers and Architects Associated be approved, subject to authorization by the
Governor.
ATTORNEY'S SPECIAL COMPENSATION
The President read a letter from Mr. C. Venable Minor, Special Counsel to the
Board, stating that he had devoted 444 hours of his time during 1957 to University
work, for which he had been remunerated only by his regular salary of $2400. If he
had charged the usual hourly rate of $25.00 allowed by his firm, Mr. Minor said, his
compensation would have been $11,100.00. He proposed payment of an additional fee
of $1,000.
The Board resolved that the Comptroller be authorized to pay a special fee of
$1,000 to Mr. Minor in addition to his regular salary of $2400 for legal work
performed during 1957.
PROFESSOR KOWNACKI'S PROTEST
A letter of 10 April 1958 from Mr. Stanislaw Kownacki, Acting Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering, was read to the Board. Mr. Kownacki complained
that Dean Quarles had denied him reappointment, which was perfectly legal, but that
the Dean had given his reasons for this refusal in an objectionable manner, making
Mr. Kownacki appear as "a target of slanderous attacks".
Taking note of the enclosed transcripts of discussions with Dean Quarles and
Mr. Kownacki's defense, members inquired whether these had been examined by Mr.
Minor, the University's Special Counsel. President Darden replied in the
affirmative, and said that Mr. Minor could find no evidence of slander.
The Board accordingly resolved that Mr. Kownacki's appeal be denied.
NORTHERN VIRGINIA COLLEGE FEES INCREASED
President Darden presented the following schedule from the Comptroller of
proposed increases in fees at the Northern Virginia College, pointing out that this
would bring the fees into equality with the fees at Clinch Valley College, and
recommending approval
| For Students in the College, Education and Commerce |
9.50 | per semester-hour |
| For Terminal Students | 9.50 | per class-hour |
| For Engineering Courses | 12.50 | per semester-hour |
| Special Fees Student Activity Fee |
10.00 | per semester |
| Library Fee | 10.00 | per semester |
The Board resolved that the tuition fees at the Northern Virginia College be
increased to the amounts set forth above in the Comptroller's memorandum, effective
for the session of 1958-59.
MARINERS' MUSEUM LEASE TO RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL
President Darden laid before the Board a five-page draft of a proposed lease,
dated __ April 1958, by the Mariners' Museum to the Newport News General and Non-Sectarian
Hospital Association, Inc., for twenty-five acres of land on Routes 60
and 312 in Warwick, Virginia. Mr. Darden reported that this draft had been
approved in form by Mr. Minor after some small corrections, and he also presented
a letter of 10 April 1958 from Mr. William McL. Ferguson to Mr. Minor requesting
the University's approval of the proposed lease.
The Board resolved after discussion that the proposed lease be approved in the
form recommended by Mr. Minor, and that a copy of the lease be filed with the
minutes of this meeting.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSIONAL STUDY
The President reported that the Governor had approved on March 24th for the
University and its branches a proposal for professional leave for graduate study as
set forth in the following memorandum
Charlottesville, Virginia
Professional Leave for Graduate Study
1. The University may pay the faculty member approved for professional
leave-of-absence for graduate study or research, an amount not to
exceed one-half of the salary for his grade and rank in the faculty
salary schedule for the period during which the leave-of-absence is
granted.
2. The recipient of the professional leave allowance shall agree that,
after the completion of the approved leave-of-absence for graduate
work or research, he will continue to teach at the University of
Virginia immediately thereafter for a time at least twice as long
as the time of the leave at the prevailing salary schedule, if the
full allowance is made
3. The recipient must sign a promissory note for the amount of the
scholarship aid, which note is cancelled and returned to the
applicant upon fulfillment of the contractual agreement. If, for
any reason, the terms of this agreement can not be met, the
recipient must repay the University on a pro rata basis for the
specified time that was not worked as contracted.
APPROVED
Governor
There were expressions of general approval of the plan.
MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE MATTERS
ELECTIONS
The Board adopted the following resolution.
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the following persons be and they are hereby elected to the
faculty of Mary Washington College
Mrs. Viola Peterson Butzner as Instructor in Art, part-time, for the second
semester of the session 1957-58, at a salary of $1000.
Mr. Charles Christopher Crittenden, Jr., as acting Instructor in Philosophy
for the second semester of the session 1957-58, at a salary of $2200.
Mrs. Leatrice Ann Voorhees Grove as Acting Instructor in Psychology (parttime)
from November 1, 1957, through June 1, 1958, at a salary of $200 a month.
Mr. Gerald George Herdman as Instructor in History for the second semester of
the session 1957-58, at a salary of $2200.
Mr. George Steiner as Assistant Professor in Music (part-time) for the
second semester of the session 1957-58, at a salary of $500.
RESIGNATIONS
The following resolution was adopted by the Board
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the resignations of the following faculty members at Mary Washington
College be and they are hereby accepted
Dr. H. Lynn Womack as Assistant Professor of Philosophy, as of February 1,
1958.
Mrs. Elena Krupenski as Instructor in Ceramics, as of June 1, 1958. (On
leave of absence Session 1957-58)
We wish for them the highest success in their new undertakings.
DEATHS OF PROFESSORS FRDELYI AND KEITH
The Chancellor announced to the Board the deaths of Dr. Warren G. Keith,
Professor of History, on January 9, 1958, and of Dr. Michael Frdelyi, Professor of
Psychology, on February 14, 1958.
There were expressions of regret for the loss of these two valued teachers
and of appreciation for their services to the College.
MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN OF STUDENT EXPENSES
Chancellor Simpson and Mr. Woodward reported a plan presented by Mr. George J.
Link, President of Guaranteed Education, Incorporated, located in the Arlington
Trust Building, 1515 N. Courthouse Road, Arlington, Virginia, for monthly payments
of student expenses. This plan carries with it an insurance feature guaranteeing
the four year education of the student should the parent become completely disabled
or deceased. There is an initial fee of $25.00 which is paid once during the four
year period. The cost to the parent of a student who is not a resident of the
state of Virginia amounts to $61.91 per year for the insurance feature. For a
student who is a resident of the state of Virginia, the cost is $38.58 per year.
These charges are based on the expenses applicable to the 1958-59 session.
There is no interest charge since the monthly payments would have to be made
in advance, beginning on April 1. The corporation remits to the college at the
beginning of each school semester the payment in full if the parent has not
defaulted in any of the monthly payments. The plan carries no obligations or
liability on the part of the college. The college permits a letter to go out
either on college stationery or on stationery of the corporation, depending upon
the attitude of the college, informing the parents that such a plan is available to
them.
Members pointed out during the discussion that it would be unwise for the
College to sponsor officially any one insurance company or other corporation, since
other companies may in future offer programs in Virginia in competition with that
of Guaranteed Education, Inc. Others commented that the Bursar has authority to
arrange to receive payments at intervals on an individual basis, and also that
individual students and parents could contract with such a corporation as Guaranteed
Education, Inc., without sponsorship by the College.
The Board resolved that the College shall not participate in promoting the
PURCHASE OF PROPERTY
The Chancellor proposed the purchase of a tract of land consisting of
approximately one-fourth of an acre located in the area between the dining hall
and the Fine Arts Center. This property, which was formerly the Fredericksburg
Aquaduct Company, is now owned by the local hospital. It was given to the
hospital by Mr. Archer Smith, owner of the Sunshine Laundry, in connection with a
hospital drive for funds for expansion of the hospital. The College was not aware
of the change in ownership until recently informed by the hospital authorities.
At the time the gift was made to the hospital, an evaluation was made on the
property of $7,500, and building lots located in the vicinity of the college are
selling for approximately $3,000.
After discussion the Board adopted the following resolution
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the Chancellor of Mary Washington College be and is hereby
authorized to enter into negotiations with the Mary Washington Hospital for the
purchase of property, consisting of approximately one-fourth of an acre, located
on the college campus, which was given to the hospital by the Sunshine Laundry of
Fredericksburg, at a price not to exceed $3,500.
DELINQUENT LOAN FUND NOTES CHARGED OFF
Chancellor Simpson reported that a total of $8,902.35 in old delinquent state
loan fund notes of the 1920's and 1930's had been charged off. In the early part
of 1957, it was called to our attention that delinquent state loan fund notes
should be turned over to the State Treasurer for collection. This was done. At a
later date we wrote the State Treasurer asking for a statement of his progress
regarding the collection of these notes. He replied that the notes were
uncollectible and recommended that permission be obtained from the Governor and
the Attorney General to charge off the notes. The Appropriation Act states that
permission must be obtained from the Governor and the Attorney General and the
State Treasurer to charge off uncollectible state loan fund notes. The Attorney
General wrote on December 16 and the Governor wrote on December 23 authorizing the
college to charge off the notes with the understanding that we will continue to
hold them in a suspense file and make an effort to collect them. Since
authorization to charge off the notes, they have been carried in a suspense file
and approximately $234.00 has been collected.
RENOVATION OF BATHS IN VIRGINIA HALL DORMITORY
The Chancellor discussed the need for renovating the old gang baths in Virginia
Hall, where obsolete plumbing has caused flooding and required frequent repair.
Dr. Simpson estimated modernizing costs at a figure between $20,000 and $30,000.
The Board adopted the following resolution
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia that the officials of Mary Washington College be and are hereby
authorized to enter into a contract with the architects, in accordance with the
terms of the State policy, for the preparation of plans and specifications to
install modern bath facilities in Virginia Hall Dormitory, to be paid from the
operating funds of the College.
And,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of
the University of Virginia that the officials of Mary Washington College be and
are hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the successful bidder for the
modernization of the bath facilities in Virginia Hall Dormitory in accordance with
the plans and specifications prepared by the College architects, to be paid from
the operating funds of the College.
DEBT AMORTIZATION, RESTORATION OF FUNDS
The Chancellor reminded the Board of the unhappy circumstances (set forth in
the Board minutes of 15 September and 8 December 1956) of the summer of 1956, when
the Governor by an executive order dated 8 August 1956 denied the College the right
to use its accumulated surplus to reduce its large debt. By this order the Governor
had transferred $351,389.78 from the College's surplus to the General Fund of the
Commonwealth, leaving only $100,000 to reduce the debt to a balance of $844,606.33.
The Governor's subsequent promise on 21 November 1956 to request legislative
restoration of the debt retirement fund had been duly carried out, Dr. Simpson
noted. Unfortunately, however, retrieving of the funds for retiring the debt is
complicated by a last-minute amendment to the 1958-1960 budget inserted by the
Senate Finance Committee, as follows
| Item 488 | First Year | Second Year |
| For restoring funds previously available to reduce local loans |
$351,390 |
It is provided, however, that this appropriation of $351,390
shall not become available for expenditure until all indebtedness of
the said Mary Washington College to the State Treasury, in excess of
$351,390, has been paid in full by funds obtained from sources other
than the general fund of the State Treasury, including as far as
necessary proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds issued in accordance
with law.
Dr. Simpson and Mr. Woodward also laid before the Poard the following summary
| AUTHORIZED DEFICIT | DEBIT | CREDIT | BALANCE |
| Dining Hall addition | $184,112.05 | ||
| Infirmary | 91,907.23 | ||
| Fine Arts Building | 666,958.36 | ||
| New Dormitories | 184,189.27 | ||
| Student Activities Bldg. | 229,348.66 | $1,356,515.57 |
| APPLICATION TOWARD REDUCTION IN INDEBTEDNESS |
CREDIT | BALANCE |
| M & O surplus of 6-30-55 | $411,909.24 | $944,606.33 |
| M & O surplus of 6-30-56 (actual surplus was $451,389.78; however, only $100,000.00 allowed toward debt reduction) |
100,000.00 | 844,606.33 |
| M & O surplus of 6-30-57 | 205,346.84 | 639,259.49 |
| Estimated surplus at 6-30-58 | 150,000.00 | 489,259.49 |
| Amount in 1958-1960 Budget for reduction in indebtedness |
351,390.00 | 137,869.49 |
N. B.: The balance shown here, $137,869.49, MUST BE paid before the
1958-1960 appropriation of $351,390.00 can be applied.
Dr. Simpson reported that he and Mr. Woodward had been discouraged to learn
during a recent conference in Richmond that Governor Almond feels that his authority
to release the $351,390 is restricted by the amendment until all other portion of
the debt has been paid. Upon reconsidering the matter after the interview, Mr.
Woodward had persuaded Chancellor Simpson to the view that the amendment would in
no way restrict the Governor's present freedom to permit the payment on the debt of
the surplus of June 30, 1957, amounting to $205,346.84 and the surplus at June 30,
1958, estimated at $150,000, prior to July 1, since the Senate amendment to the
item from the General Fund in the amount of $351,390, is a part of the 1958-1960
Appropriation Act, which does not become law until July 1, 1958.
Judge Smith and other members of the Board strongly supported Mr. Woodward's
interpretation of the law. President Darden and others deplored the waste of taxpayers'
funds that would result from the unnecessary issuing of bonds; but the
Visitors were of the opinion that bonds must be issued at once if executive
approval could not be obtained for what appeared to them to be the legal,
economical, and obvious solution of the problem.
The Rector and President Darden were requested to call upon the Governor at
the earliest possible date, accompanied if practicable by Judge Smith, the
Chairman of the Committee on the College, and press upon him the views of the Board.
CHANCELLOR SIMPSON TO ATTEND CONFERENCE
President Darden reported that the Chancellor had been invited to attend this
summer a conference of college and university administrators to be held at Harvard
University.
There were expressions of gratification at the compliment that had been paid
to Dr. Simpson by this invitation, and the Board resolved that arrangements be
made for his attendance and expenses.
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY FOUNDER'S DAY
Members of the Board were invited to remain in Fredericksburg for the Alumnae
Association's Golden Anniversary dinner in the evening at which President Darden
was to speak.
Visitors who had participated on March 14th-15th in the Fiftieth Anniversary
Founder's Day exercises, at which Mrs. J. Lindsay Almond was the principal speaker,
and at which Governor Almond and President Darden were among the speakers honoring
the Hon. C. O'Conor Goolrick, praised the manner in which the anniversary had been
observed. It was requested that the official program (containing Mr. Goolrick's
modest historical sketch of the College) be preserved with the minutes of this
meeting.
The Board adopted the following resolution.
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia that we warmly
approve and concur in the tributes voiced on 14 March 1958 by the Governor and Mrs.
J. Lindsay Almond, President Colgate W. Darden, Jr., Mrs. Peter D. Copes, and Miss
Evelyn Breeden in observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Mary Washington
College of the University of Virginia, and in honor of the Founder of the College,
the Honorable Charles O'Conor Goolrick.
We gratefully recognize the indispensable work of Mr. Goolrick in bringing
the College into being, and his devoted service gladly given over the years to the
welfare and growth both of the College and of the University of which it has now
become so important a part. We are proud that Mr. Goolrick has so long served
this Board, as a fellow-Visitor and later as an unofficial advisor. In the name of
the University, which claims his and our united love and service, we hereby record
our obligation to him for his effectual and unselfish labors in her cause.
RESOLVED FURTHER that we view with keen satisfaction the state of the
College in this, its fiftieth anniversary year. The outstanding work of its
present administrators, teachers, students, and alumnae commands our warm approval,
and we therefore look forward to the future of the College with high confidence.
It was ordered that copies of this resolution be sent to Mr. Goolrick, to
Chancellor Simpson, to Dean Alvey, to Mr. Woodward, to Miss Breedon, President of
the Student Government Association, and to Mrs. Copes, President of the Alumnae
Association.
On motion the meeting was then adjourned.
Rector
Secretary
| Board of Visitors minutes April 12, 1958 | |