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PORTRAIT OF HUGH S. CUMMING

The President summarized a letter he had received from Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. offering to
the University a portrait of his father, the late Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General of the U. S.
Public Health Service, which portrait since 1949 had been on loan to the School of Medicine and is
now hung in the auditorium of the School. Mr. Darden further noted that the offer was made on
behalf of Mrs. Hugh S. Cumming and her son

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 kind offer of Mrs. Hugh S. Cumming and Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. to the University of the
portrait of Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, the late Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, be
and it is hereby gratefully accepted subject to the approval of the Art Commission