VMI Board of Visitors Minutes Summary
June 17, 1927
Present: R. W. Massie (President); A. F. Ryland; E. S. Reid; Joseph Button; M. B. Corse, Superintendent William H. Cocke.; L. E. Steele, Secretary.
• Salary increases approved for W. J. Ashburn, Commissary Steward; Nettie B. Smith and Beatrice Lauck
• Petition of Cadet C. M. Ballenger approved
• Albert D. Cohn (Class of 1894) Scholarship accepted
• Fund of Mary L. Miller for scholarship in memory of William H. Locke
• Gen. E. W. Nichols quarters assigned to Col. H. C. Ford; Ford quarter assigned to Col. William Couper; Couper quarters to Col. R. E. Dixon
• Reinstatement of Cadets A. I. Grubb, J. D. Quillin, H. N. McLane, W. A. Hood, Jr. declined
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• State cadet obligations of F. M. Satterfield , Walter C. Ames, W. L. Drewry
• Anderson scholarships to L. C. Thompson and R. O. Garrett
• Resolution honoring service of Gen. Edward W. Nichols
• Resolution honoring Harding Polk as Commandant of the Corps of Cadets
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• Thanks to W. M. Simpson, Jr. (Class of 1924) for presentation of bust of Gen. Edward W. Nichols