Agenda and Item Summary
Full
Board Meeting
Friday, June 16, 2000
4:00 — 4:30 p.m.
Dome Room, The Rotunda
AGENDA
I. ACTION
ITEMS (Mr. Casteen)
- Centennial
Distinguished Professorship in 1
Nursing
- Robert
J. Roberts Professorship in Pediatrics 3
- Naming
of the New Residence Hall on Alderman Road 5
in
Honor of Mr. T. Braxton Woody
II. REPORT
ON NAMING OF NEURORADIOLOGY SUITES IN MEMORY 8
OF
DR. WAYNE S. CAIL (Mr. Casteen)
AGENDA
ITEM: A. Establishment of Professorship
Approval to establish Professorship in
School of Nursing
CENTENNIAL
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP IN NURSING
BACKGROUND:
The School of Nursing, under a slightly different name, was established
in 1901. In commemoration of this forthcoming centennial, an anonymous
and very generous donor has given money to establish a professorship
in pediatric nursing; it is proposed that the professorship be called
The Centennial Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric Nursing.
DISCUSSION:
An anonymous donor has given $1 million to establish a chair in
pediatric nursing. It is the largest outright gift made by an individual
to the School of Nursing.
The
Centennial Professorship will be used to recruit a distinguished
academic to lead nursing education, practice, and research in pediatrics.
ACTION
REQUIRED: The President will propose the establishment of the
Centennial Distinguished Professorship in Nursing which must
be
approved by the Board of Visitors.
ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE CENTENNIAL DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP IN NURSING
WHEREAS,
an anonymous donor has made a very generous gift to establish a
professorship in the School of Nursing, the largest individual donation
made to the School; and
WHEREAS,
the School of Nursing will celebrate the centennial of its founding
in 2001;
RESOLVED
that the Board of Visitors expresses its gratitude for the generosity
of the donor and establishes The Centennial Distinguished Professorship
in Pediatric Nursing, to be held in the School of Nursing.
AGENDA
ITEM: B. Establishment of Professorship
Approval to establish Professorship
in
Pediatrics
ROBERT
J. ROBERTS PROFESSORSHIP IN PEDIATRICS
BACKGROUND:
Gifts have been made to establish a chair in Pediatrics in the School
of Medicine. It is proposed that the chair be called the Robert
J. Roberts Professorship in Pediatrics.
Dr.
Robert J. Roberts was chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the
School of Medicine and director of the Children’s Medical Center
from 1987 until his death in January, 1997. He worked to extend
pediatric care beyond Charlottesville and under his leadership three
satellite pediatric clinics were established: two subspecialty clinics
in Warrenton and Winchester and the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant
Center at the Children’s Medical Center, which later was renamed
in his honor.
Dr.
Roberts was a mentor to junior faculty and in 1996, he and his wife
Donna created the Roberts Achievement Award for Outstanding Junior
Pediatric Faculty. He was known as well as a first rate research
investigator and from 1991 to 1996 he was the principal investigator
of the Child Health Research Center, which is sponsored by the National
Institutes of Health.
The
Roberts Professorship, which will be held in the Department of Pediatrics
at the School of Medicine, has been funded with gifts and commitments
from the Department of Pediatrics, the Charles A. Dana Foundation,
and the Office of the Vice President and Provost for the Health
System.
DISCUSSION:
The President will propose the establishment of the Robert J. Roberts
Professorship in Pediatrics.
ACTION
REQUIRED: Approval by the Board of Visitors
ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE ROBERT J. ROBERTS PROFESSORSHIP IN PEDIATRICS
WHEREAS,
Dr. Robert J. Roberts was Chair of the Department of Pediatrics
and Director of the Children’s Medical Center from 1987 until
his death in 1997; and
WHEREAS,
Dr. Roberts was a superb physician, teacher and researcher; and
WHEREAS,
Dr. Roberts worked to extend and improve patient care programs for
children in Virginia and expanded the services of the Children’s
Medical Center and the Department of Pediatrics;
RESOLVED
that the Board of Visitors establishes the Robert J. Roberts Professorship
in Pediatrics, to be held in the Department of Pediatrics of the
School of Medicine, and in so doing pays tribute to the contributions
and devoted service of Dr. Roberts to his patients, his students
and the University of Virginia.
AGENDA ITEM: C. Naming of the New Residence Hall
on Alderman Road
NAMING
OF THE NEW RESIDENCE HALL ON ALDERMAN ROAD IN HONOR OF
MR.
T. BRAXTON WOODY
BACKGROUND:
The newest University dormitory, which will be for first year students,
is under construction on the lower slope of Observatory Mountain
just behind the Alderman Road dormitories. If the present construction
schedule is met, the dormitory should be ready for entering students
at the end of August.
It
is proposed that the dormitory be named Woody House, in honor of
the late T. Braxton Woody, an alumnus and a member of the faculty
of the University for 43 years.
Thaddeus
Braxton Woody, a Petersburger, took his B.A. from the University
in 1923. He did graduate work at the University of Puerto Rico,
the Sorbonne and at Indiana University, and after teaching at Indiana
and at Northwestern University, he returned to the University in
1928 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages.
He retired in 1971 as Professor Emeritus. He was an imaginative
and demanding teacher and he is remembered with affection by those
he taught.
Mr.
Woody served for some thirteen years as an Assistant Dean of the
College. In this capacity, he was asked in 1968 by President Shannon
to be chairman of a committee to study the possibility of coeducation
beyond the limited coeducation which had been in effect since 1920.
The Woody Committee’s report, which was given to the President
at the end of 1968, recommended coeducation and laid the groundwork
for the unrestricted admission of women undergraduates in 1970.
Mr.
Woody’s contributions to the University community were numerous.
A notion of the range of these can be seen in some of the awards
he received: the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, the Raven Award,
the Imp Award and the Alumni Association Distinguished Professor
Award — he was the first recipient of the
latter,
in 1966. The Jefferson Society, to which he belonged as a student,
in 1985 established the Jefferson Society — T. Braxton Woody
Award in French and the Jefferson Society — T. Braxton Woody
Award in Spanish. In 1994, the Student Council founded the Braxton
Woody Award, to be given every year to the "professor who has
gone beyond the confines of the classroom to preserve Mr. Jefferson’s
vision of a close personal relationship between students and faculty."
He was, in addition, a strong supporter of the Honor System and
of the work of the Honor Committee.
For
the Raven Society’s 75th anniversary dinner in 1979,
Virginius Dabney composed an eloquent toast which evoked the spirit
of Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning with the Society’s annual dinner
in 1980 — and until only a very few years ago when he became
too feeble to attend — a high point of the evening was Mr.
Woody’s spirited recitation of the toast, from memory and without
notes or prompting.
Mr.
Woody died in Charlottesville on January 9, 2000; he was 98.
DISCUSSION:
The President will propose the naming of the
New
Residence Hall on Alderman Road
ACTION
REQUIRED: Approval by the Board of Visitors
NAMING
OF THE NEW RESIDENCE HALL ON ALDERMAN ROAD IN HONOR OF MR. T. BRAXTON
WOODY
WHEREAS,
Thaddeus Braxton Woody, a native of Petersburg and an alumnus of
the University of Virginia, joined the faculty in 1928 as Assistant
Professor of Romance Languages; and
WHEREAS,
Mr. Woody was recognized in numerous ways both for his superb teaching
and for his support of the Jeffersonian precepts of close relations
between faculty and students, as exemplified in the concept of the
"academical village;" and
WHEREAS,
Mr. Woody was an Assistant Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
and the Chair of the faculty committee which in 1968 recommended
unrestricted undergraduate coeducation; and
WHEREAS,
Mr. Woody died on January 9, 2000;
RESOLVED
that the new first year dormitory under construction behind the
Alderman Road dormitories be named Woody House in honor of Thaddeus
Braxton Woody.
AGENDA
ITEM: II. Report on the Naming of Neuroradiology Suites
in Memory of Dr. Wayne S. Cail
ACTION
REQUIRED: None
BACKGROUND:
Although the naming of buildings at the University is done by the
Board of Visitors, the naming of rooms is approved by the Names
Committee but not brought to the Board for action. The recent naming
of the Neuroradiology Suites is brought to you simply as a report.
The
Neuroradiology Suites are in the Department of Radiology on the
first floor of the University Hospital. They are made up of a number
of rooms which together constitute 4600 square feet. They have been
named in honor of Dr. Wayne S. Cail, who died earlier this year.
Dr.
Cail came to the University as a resident in 1975, and he held a
fellowship in Neuroradiology before joining the faculty in 1979.
He built the Neuroradiology Division into one of the most productive
and responsive services at the Hospital. He was a mentor to residents
and fellows and he was regarded as the premier resource for central
nervous system diagnosis in the Health System. Dr. Bruce Hillman,
the Chair of Radiology, has called him "among the most respected,
admired and liked individuals in the department."
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