University of Virginia Library

MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE MATTERS

SPECIAL GIFT

The President proposed and the Board adopted the following resolution

WHEREAS Mrs. Ida Elizabeth Merchant Tardy has made a gift of $1,000 to Mary Washington College
of the University of Virginia to establish the Thomas Howard and Elizabeth Merchant Tardy Endowment
Fund and has expressed her intention to include in her will a bequest of $24,000 to The Rector
and Visitors to be added to that Fund,

AND WHEREAS these funds are to be used to assist in paying the expenses of certain women
students at Mary Washington College,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia that we express our deep appreciation to Mrs. Tardy for her gift of $1,000
and for her intention subsequently to leave a bequest to Mary Washington College of $24,000 and
direct the Secretary of the Board to send a copy of this resolution to Mrs. Tardy as an expression
of our gratitude