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While a student Mrs. Reynolds took advantage of courses in several fields; notably, languages, elocution and civics. Forced to withdraw from the college because of a tragic typhoid fever epidemic, she completed the final year's work for her bachelor's degree at Sullins College, Bristol, Virginia. Here she took an additional interest in art, and added a further course in secretarial work at Salem Academy. Following graduation she taught art in her home town, Mt. Airy.

In 1905 she was married to Mr. R. J. Reynolds of WinstonSalem and until her death in 1924, some 19 years later, she advised with Mr. Reynolds on business and community betterment. It was she who persuaded him to shorten the company's work week from six to five and a half days.

Mrs. Reynolds was responsible for the establishment of the Medical Department at the R. J Reynolds Tobacco Company and of cafeterias for the employees. She organized a Day Nursery for the children of workers. She was responsible for the final version of the caption on the Camel cigarette package. I am sure that Mrs. Reynolds would have been happy over the establishment, a few years ago, of a Chapel, with a full time Chaplain and counseling service for employees, and for the many contributions of the Reynolds Foundation to education and welfare.

In the community, Mrs. Reynolds was instrumental in starting the YWCA in Winston-Salem, and served as chairman of the Building Committee. She was the person most responsible for the construction of the R. J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, and gave the money for the auditorium. When she found that many men on the Reynolds estate could not read or write, night classes were organized to remedy this situation.

Through her entire life Mrs. Reynolds implemented the vision of the founder and early students and faculty of the Woman's College who chose "Service" as their watchword and goal.

Selection of the Woman's College as the recipient of this grant by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation marks a happy combination of recognition of the distinction of the educational program at the college, and the importance to able young women of a degree from that institution. It also marks the appreciation of a family for the influence of their mother as an "educated" woman in the broadest sense.

BE IT RESOLVED, THEREFORE, that the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, in regular session on February 25, 1963, do formally express our appreciation to the Trustees of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for this magnificent gift to the Woman's College.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be recorded in the minutes of the meeting, and that a copy be sent to Mr. Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. , president of the Foundation; to Mrs. Nancy Reynolds Bagley Verney; and to the families of Mrs. Mary Reynolds Babcock and Mr. Z. Smith Reynolds.

QUORUM

Mr. Whitehurst called attention to the action taken by the Board at its Special Meeting on November 12, 1962 with reference to the number of members required to constitute a quorum, and Moved that that action be rescinded. The motion was seconded and carried.

Mr. Whitehurst then Moved "That this Board pass a resolution requesting the North Carolina General Assembly to change that portion of Sections 116-8 and 116-6 of the General Statutes of North Carolina which