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Following the funeral of President Alderman, held at 11 o'clock this day, at the
request of the Rector the members of the Board met on Fast Lawn in the President's Office
to take such action touching the death of our President as might be deemed appropriate

There were present the Rector, Fred W. Scott, and Visitors B. F. Buchanan, C.
Harding Walker, A. C. Carson, Mrs. M. C. B. Munford, Hollis Rinehart, Paul Goodloe
McIntire, Lewis C. Williams, and Sidney B. Hall. (Visitors Virginius R. Shackelford
was unable to attend on account of illness.)

The Rector, on behalf of the Visitors, gave appropriate expression to the great
loss sustained by the University, the State and the Nation in the death of Doctor Edwin
Anderson Alderman, the first President of the University

The Rector stated that he deemed it appropriate at this time that a committee
of the Board be appointed to prepare a memorial to be entered upon the minutes of the
Board. The suggestion prevailed, and the Rector was authorized to appoint a committee
to prepare such memorial. He named on the Committee Messrs Walker, Buchanan and
Williams, and, at the request of the members the Rector was added to the committee

It was decided that a meeting of the Board be held on Saturday, May 23, at 11
o'clock

The meeting then adjourned