Evening star. [volume], June 15, 1958, Page A-20, Image 20

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THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C. I
M ND4I. JUNE f ft. IIAI
Darden Resigns as Head
Os Virginia University
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va „ •
June 14 (Special*.—Colgate W.
Darden. jr.. wha worked to
make the University of Vir
ginia the capstone of public
education envisioned bv Thom
as Jefferson, resigned as the
university’s president today to
return to private life in Norfolk.
It may be some months, how
ever. before he can give up
his duties. The University’s
Board of Visitors has persu
aded him to remain until a new
president is selected His re
signation was submitted to the
board yesterday.
The Board of Visitors ap
pointed a six-member commit
tee to recommend a new presi
dent. On the committee are:
Federal District Judge Albert
V. Bryan of Alexandria: Repre-
sentative Smith. Democrat of
Virginia: Frank Talbott, ir., of
Danville, rector of the Board of
Visitors: Henry F. McWane of c
Lynchburg: Norborne Berkley “
of Pennsylvania, and Herbert “
C. Pollock of New York.
Meets Again in July 1 o
t
The committee, which met ,
for 2' 2 hours yesterday, will
meet again in July. It was esti-!
mated it might take several
months to come up with a re- j *
placement for Dr. Darden.
The 61-year-old former Gov- <
ernor of Virginia brought a *
Spartan attitude to the school ’
that had a reputation for being '
a playground for the sons of 1
the rich. 1
Time and again, he said pub- 1
licly that he was m*rc int»r- 1
ested in hard work from a stu- j
dent “than in a brilliant mind ■
that has the quiet habit of 1
loafing.”
His advocacy of some hard :
knocks in formal schooling ex
tended to the lower grades also. 1
He said the compulsory i
attendance law should be!
amended “so that after grade
school those who have neither
the disposition nor the capac
ity to stand the pace can be
dropped.”
The tall, amiable university
president for years has been
a member in good standing in
the congenial club made up of
top leaders of the Byrd Demo
cratic- organization.
But Dr. Darden did not hesi
tate to walk alone when he
thought the occasion demanded
it, and he did so wdth consid
erable aplomb.
He persisted in admiring Ad
lai Stevenson when nearly all
the other Virginia Democratic
big-wigs were swinging Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
He campaigned up and down
the State for a local option
plan which he believed was the
salvation for Virginia in the
segregration problem.
He said State leaders who
iunked local option were wrong
in advocating massive resistance
"and I mean to say so, not in
the spirit of bitterness, but to
let the people know' why my
feelings haven’t changed.”
Forsees Segregation Shift
He also predicted then that
the “balance of sentiment” in
Charlottesville, facing Federal
court-ordered desegregation,
“will tip toward acceptance of
a limited degree of integration
if that becomes the alternative
to abandonment of education
as a public function.”
An intellectual corn-popper
w hen it came to ideas, the sight
of the tall, bulky ex-Oovemor
hurrying across Capitol Square
would draw’ reporters from all
directions.
He always has been ready
with a lively disquisition on
anything from the fall of the
Roman Empire to the rise of
the Byrd machine.
Reporters still talk about the
definition of State’s rights that
he gave them years ago before
the segregation storm broke on
Virginia.
When you hear a politican
talk about State's rights, he
said, what he often means is
the State’s right to do nothing.
Dr Darden took over as presi
dent of the university on June
23. 1947. succeeding Dr. John
Lloyd Newcomb.
A former member of the
House of Delegates, and the
House of Representatives, Dr
Darden was elected Governoi
of Virginia in 1941 and tools
office for a four-year term or
January 21. 1942.
Stops Senate Draft
Alter a prominent political
career, most observers felt he
would soon leave the university
and re-enter politics. A dratt
movement after he lett the
Governor's mansion to send him
to the United Stales Senate
to fill the seat of the late
Senator Carter Glass was
stopped dead by Dr. Darden,
and in 1956 he turned down
bids from at least three croups
which wanted him to see the
governorship again.
Dr. Darden left the Governor’s
mansion in 1946 and relumed
to his Norfolk home He was
elected chancellor of the Col
lege of William and Mary on
October 10. 1946, and 'esign“d
the post one lay less than a
year later, after he had been
named president of the uni
versity.
In 1949, Dr. Darden and a
group of educators went to
India and Pakistan en an
educational tour, and in 1956
he embarked on a 22.000-mile
trip as a member of President
Eisenhower's special commit
tee on foreign aid.
He also was a member of the
Board of Consultants on
Foreign Intelligence Activities,
and in 1955 served as a member
es the United Slates delega
tion to the United Nations
He has received numerous
honorary degrees, and was pre
sented the Navy s certificate
of Mi aid for Distinguished
Public Service. He was award
ed the Virginia State Chamber
of Commerce's 1958 Distin
guished Service Award.
Dr. Darden was born in
COLGATE W. DARDEN, jr.
President Resigns
Southampton, the son of Col
?ate Whitehead and Katherine-
Pretlow Darden. Most of his
boyhood was spent on the farm
with schooling during the win
ters at Franklin. At 16 he en
rolled at the University of Vir
ginia.
The European battlefront
proved too much of an attrac
tion for young Darden, how
ever. and he interrupted his
education to sail for France
to join an ambulance unit that
went through Verdun, Cham
pagne and the Argonne. Ex
posure while serving in these
campaigns put him in a hos
pital for several months.
He returned to America,
joined the aviation branch of
the Navy and after his train
ing period transferred to the
Marine Corps and headed back
to France.
Crashes In Plane
His war career ended on
October 23. 1918. His plane
crashed in Northern France,
killing Lt. Ralph Talbot of
South Weymouth. Mass. Young
Darden received a fractured
vertebra, crushed face, tempo
rary paralysis and other in
juries.
After hospitalization, he re
sumed his studies at the uni
versity and took his law'degree;
at Columbia University. While
at Columbia he won a Carnelge
Fellowship in international law;
and went to Christ Church Col
lege. Oxford, for a year’s addi
tional work.
He began his law practice in
Norfolk in 1924 and three years;
later married Miss Constance 5
DuPont, daughter of the Irenee |
DuPonts of Delaware. They
have three children.
Dr. Darden was elected to
the House of Delegates in 1929.
re-elected in 1931, but resigned
to run for Congress. He un
seated a Republican, the late
Menalcus Lankford. He was |
returned to Congress in 1934 j
but in 1936 Norman R. Ham
ilton, Portmouth publisher,
walked off with the nomination.
Two years later, however. Mr.
Darden won election again and
was back in Congress. He re
signed his congressional seat in
the spring of 1940 to run for
Governor and won the nomina
tion with scarcely a contest. In
the election, a Republican, a
Socialist and a Communist
polled less than one-fifth of the
vote between them.
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Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
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Gifted Pupil !
Speedup Plan
Proposed
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
■June 14 (Special).—Gifted stu
dents here will be permitted to
compress their studies and
I graduate from high school one
year earlier under a new cur
riculum plan.
The Charlottesville School
Board approved the plan on
the recommendation of School
Supt. F. R. Ellis who recently
completed a year's study of cur- i
ricula offered in the city’s
Lane High School.
Under the plan, which is re
latively new in Virginia educa
tion circles, selected students
will combine the work of the
sixth, seventh and eighth
grades into two years of study.
Students will be required to
select a course of study for
their high school work when
I they first enroll at Lane. Their
study program will be subject
' to review each year, and there
will be an increased amount of
counselling bv teachers.
For the selected students,
1 general science will be a re
-1 quired subject in the ninth;
grade rather than home eco
nomics or general shop, and
algebra will be given instead
of general mathematics. A
L foreign language will be taken
■, as a fifth subject in the ninth
- grade by those students.
s In effect, the eighth grade
: will be skipped by the selected;
t students whose achievement 1
■ {records permit the acceleration, 1
• and they will graduate after
; 11 years of school work instead
of the standard 12 years.
A committee of four teachers
was appointed by the School ‘
f Board to work out further de
- tails of the plan and prepare i
f an outline of work foi the
c new program of high school
istudy. They will meet next;
week and then report to the
school superintendent.
i
Work Is Begun
1 OnGreenbelt
j Recreation Area
Bulldozers moved into Green
belt Park last week to begin
work on the long-delayed de
velopment of the 1.100-acre |
tract as a recreation area.
Crews have started clearing)
ihe heavily wooded tract to in
stall nearly two miles of gravel
road. The take-off point from
Greenbelt road is in the north- I
west corner of the tract.
The park area, second in size
ionlv to Rock Creek Park in
Metropolitan Washington, ul
timately will have major north
! south access roads between the
Greenbelt road and Good Luck
road boundaries, as well as ac
cess to the new dualized Kenil
worth avenue to the west In the
Berwyn Heights - College Park
vicinity.
j Harry T. Thompson, Na- j
tional Capital Parks Superin
• I tendent, also announced his
office tentatively is planning to
. install a traffic interchange be
-1 tween Good Luck road and the
• Baltimore - Washington park
i way with the park access road
■ starting just west of the latter
■ thoroughfare. At present, Good
i Luck road simply overpasses
i the parkway.
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; jurisdiction over both the park
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