{"id":306,"date":"2017-10-26T14:41:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/?p=306"},"modified":"2021-10-08T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T21:54:14","slug":"frank-batten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2017\/10\/26\/frank-batten\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Batten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portrait of Frank Batten, circa 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frank Batten<\/strong> served as a member of the Board of Visitors<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>of Old Dominion University<\/strong> (ODU)<\/strong>, from 1962 to 1973,\u00a0 and was the first Rector of the Board of Visitors from 1962-1970. From 1955-1962, Batten was a member of Director Lewis W. Webb, Jr.’s Advisory Board which advised Webb on administrative members and helped to raise money for the Norfolk Division. A co-founder of The Weather Channel, Batten took control of The\u00a0<\/em>Virginian-Pilot<\/em> newspaper in 1954. After his time on the Board of Visitors, Batten continued to be heavily involved with Old Dominion. In 2003, he gave a then-record $32 million gift to the university to support research in engineering and the sciences, and the\u00a0Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology<\/strong><\/a> and the\u00a0Batten Arts and Letters Building<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0are named in his honor.<\/p>\n

Resources<\/h3>\n
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  1. Old Dominion University Photographic and Multimedia Collection<\/a>,\u00a0Special Collections and University Archives, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529.<\/li>\n
  2. Old Dominion University Board of Visitors Records<\/a>,\u00a0Special Collections and University Archives, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    References<\/h3>\n
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    1. Bookman, Steven and Jessica Ritchie. Old Dominion University: A Campus History Series.\u00a0 Arcadia Publishing. Charleston, South Carolina, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Frank Batten served as a member of the Board of Visitors\u00a0of Old Dominion University (ODU), from 1962 to 1973,\u00a0 and was the first Rector of the Board of Visitors from 1962-1970. From 1955-1962, Batten was a member of Director Lewis W. Webb, Jr.’s Advisory Board which advised Webb on administrative members and helped to raise… read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[24,25,79,80,58,14,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}