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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
CHARLOTTESVILLE
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13 July 1966
Governor Farris Bryant
Director, The Office of
Emergency Planning
604 17th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Governor Bryant:
As President of the National Association of
State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, I take great
pleasure in inviting you to speak on the program of the
general session of the annual Convention of the Associa-
tion to be r
m in Do-O. Since you will be one of
two speakers for this session, your speech will not need
to be more than twonty or thirty minutes long, though,
of course, you should feel free to take longer than this
if you feel that more time is necessary to develop your
subject.
The theme of the convention is "State Univer-
sities and Public Affairs. In your position as the
President's representative for coordination of Federal-
State relationships and with your former outstanding
experience as a legislator and Governor of Florida, I
am sure that you will have much of great interest and
pertinence to say to our Association about the role of
the state universities in public affairs, especially in
the coordination and direction of State and Federal pro-
grams in education and various aspects of research. I
am sure, however, that the Convention will be pleased to
hear anything that you will wish to say about public
higher education.
The plan of the ConVention is for two general
sessions, with all the membership in attendance, to be
devoted to major speeches on the theme. The sub-divisions
of the Convention, consisting of Councils of the major
administrative officers of the universities and the Divi-
sion of Agriculture, will devote the programs and discus
sions of their group meetings to the same topic. The
Governor Farris Bryant
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13 July 1966
audience at the general sessions will be composed of
the major academic, administrative, and financial of-
ficers of the ninety-seven state and land-grant insti-
tutions belonging to our Association. In addition,
the Association of State Colleges and Universities
will also be meeting in Washington at the same time
and the members of that Association have been invited
to attend the general sessions of our Convention. Thus,
the audience will be composed of the representatives of
approximately three hundred state universities and col-
leges.
The theme and the Convention devoted to it,
are the outgrowth of the meeting of presidents of state
universities that the President of the United States
convened at the White House in August 1964. At the con-
clusion of that meeting the matter of the role of the
state university and public affairs in the states, as
well as in the nation, was referred to the National As-
sociation of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
The President of the Association the following autumn
appointed a special task force to give consideration to
the subject; the Executive Committee of the Association
has given the subject priority attention, which has cul-
minated in plans for the 1966 Convention and a request
for support from the Carnegie Corporation for a two year
study Of the state university and public policy. Sub-
ject to attracting the person to direct this study, the
prospect for its going forward is good.
I hope indeed that you will find it possible
to accept this invitation. YOu will bring eXperience and
illumination to the theme of the Convention of the utmost
pertinence. It will be a great personal pleasure to me
to welcome you on this occasion and to introduce you to
this audience.
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Sincerely yours,
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Edg F. Shannon, Jr.
President
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UNIVER5Ir1 OF VrRGINIA CHARL-NTF5vr11E s-...:.. .-n ler ni-.inru: 13 ig:f Governor Farris Bryant Director, The Office of Emergency Planning 604 17th St.reat, N. W. Inshingtnr,, D. C. Dear Governor Bryant: As President of the Natior.al Associat ton of State rJniversities and Land-Grant Colleges, I take great pleasure in inviting you to speak on the program o the general session of the ane-ual Convention o the Association to be held between 11:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., 19 Tovember in Washington, D. C. Since you will be one of two speakers for this session, your speech will noL need to be more than twenty or thirty mi-ut-5 lore, though, ot--aurse, you chould fuel free to take lomfer than 1:his if you feel tha t more Elme .is necessary to develop your 310330ct. The theme of the Conver=Lion is "state Universitia and Public Affairs." In your pcisition as the President's representative for coordination of FederalStat.e relatioriships and witi your former outstanding experirence as a legislator and Governor of Flor>da, I am sure that you will have much at great int.arast and partinence to say to our A-soci-ation aLout the rale of the State universities in public affairs, espoejally in the coordination anci direction of Stato and Federal pregrams in education and various aspects of rr-search. I am sure, huwever, that the Corive:.tion will be pleased to hear anything that you will wish to say about public higher r-rducation, Ti-2 plan of the Conver!tion is for two gemeral sessions, with all the markership in aLtondance, to be devot-d to magor speechos un the theme. 'rie sta-divisions of the Convention, consisting at councils of the major administrative officers of r.he universities and the Division of Agriculture, will devote the prourans anri ,-liscussaans of their group meetings to the same topic. Tha
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