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04. Gifts to His University
Mr. McIntire’s generosity led to the creation of several academic departments at the University of Virginia.35 In 1919, Mr. McIntire endowed the School of Art and the School of Music.36 He endowed the School of Commerce and Finance in 1921.37
The end of Mr. McIntire’s first marriage remains unclear; it may have ended either in Mrs. McIntire’s death or in divorce.38 In 1921, Mr. McIntire married for a second time to Anna Dearing Rhodes.39 They met when Ms. Rhodes, a school teacher, asked Mr. McIntire to purchase records and a record player for Stony Point School for the amount of $50.40 Following their meeting, Ms. Rhodes took Mr. McIntire on a tour of the schools, marking the start of a happy relationship that would last until Mrs. McIntire’s death on March 24, 1933.41
Mr. McIntire dutifully served on the University of Virginia Board of Visitors from 1922- 1934.42 Low faculty salaries posed one of the greatest obstacles for the Board of Visitors during Mr. McIntire’s time.43 Mr. McIntire and the Board chose to create a scale system to determine the salaries, increasing the highest salary for professors from $4,500 to $6,000.44
Mr. McIntire’s passion for cultural enrichment resulted in his numerous gifts to the Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Virginia, including an Italian missal from the fifteenth century.45 Some of his donations created problems for the museum curators because they were either duplicates of items already owned by the University or they were not high enough quality for the Museum.46 Mr. McIntire and Mr. Edmund S. Campbell, a professor and curator of the Museum, frequently corresponded via letters as they tried to find the correct way to display Mr. McIntire’s many donations.47
Mr. McIntire donated a great amount of funds to increase medical research within the University and the Charlottesville areas.48
He provided $50,000 to the University Hospital for the creation of an orthopedics wing.49 Eventually, Mr. McIntire’s generosity became an important reason why the University of Virginia kept their medical school program; the University’s facilities were considered one of the best in the state.50 His gift inspired other donors to give to the University’s medical programs, resulting in many new buildings.51
In addition, Mr. McIntire gave donations for the purchase of Pantops Farm, and for the study of cancer research and psychiatry.52 Mr. McIntire may have been inspired to give this gift because his daughter, Charlotte Virginia, became institutionalized in a Richmond sanatorium in 1921.53
Mr. McIntire also left his mark on the University’s landscape. Mr. McIntire’s numerous donations began in 1917, when he provided the University with the flagpole on the north side of the Rotunda.54
He also donated $84,000 for a Greek-style amphitheatre, complete with an organ, in 1920.55 At the time, only six other Greek-style outdoor amphitheatres existed in America.56 Mr. McIntire intended that the amphitheatre would house many outdoor performances in an effort to share his love of music and art with the University community.57
End notes:
35. William G. Shenkir and William R. Wilkerson, Paul G. McIntire: Businessman and Philanthropist (University of Virginia: McIntire School of Commerce Foundation, 1988), 3-4.
36. Ibid, vii.
37. Ibid, vii.
38. Ibid, 5.
39. Ibid, vii.
40. Ibid, 12.
41. Ibid, 12.
42. Ibid, vii.
43. Ibid, 33.
44. Ibid, 33.
45. Ibid, 34.
46. Ibid, 34.
47. Ibid, 34-35.
48. Ibid, 32.
49. Ibid, 33.
50. Ibid, 33.
51. Ibid, 33.
52. Ibid, 33-34.
53. Ibid, 33-34.
54. Ibid, 26.
55. Ibid, 29
56. Wikipedia., s.v. “Paul Goodloe Mcintire,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Goodloe_McIntire (accessed April 15, 2010).
57. William G. Shenkir and William R. Wilkerson, Paul G. McIntire: Businessman and Philanthropist (University of Virginia: McIntire School of Commerce Foundation, 1988), 29.
35. Ibid, vii.
36. Ibid, vii.
37. Ibid, vii.
38. Ibid, 5.
39. Ibid, vii.
40. Ibid, 12.
41. Ibid, 12.
42. Ibid, vii.
43. Ibid, 33.
44. Ibid, 33.
45. Ibid, 34.
46. Ibid, 34.
47. Ibid, 34-35.
48. Ibid, 32.
49. Ibid, 33.
50. Ibid, 33.
51. Ibid, 33.
52. Ibid, 33-34.
53. Ibid, 33-34.
54. Ibid, 26.
55. Ibid, 29
56. Wikipedia., s.v. “Paul Goodloe Mcintire,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Goodloe_McIntire (accessed April 15, 2010).
57. William G. Shenkir and William R. Wilkerson, Paul G. McIntire: Businessman and Philanthropist (University of Virginia: McIntire School of Commerce Foundation, 1988), 29.
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