University of Virginia Library

Malone Receives Medal
For Work In History

By CHIP WOODWARD

Dumas Malone, the
University's distinguished
biographer of Thomas
Jefferson, will receive the
highest honor of the
Massachusetts Historical
Society Thursday at the
Society's annual dinner in
Boston.

Mr. Malone will receive the
Society's Kennedy Medal,
established following the death
of President John F. Kennedy
to honor individuals who have
done outstanding work in
history.

Dinner Speech

Mr. Malone, Professor
Emeritus and Biographer in
Residence at the University,
will speak at the dinner on
"Mr. Jefferson and
Massachusetts."

A graduate of Emory
University who received his
doctorate from Yale
University, Mr. Malone joined
the University faculty in 1959
after teaching at Columbia
University for 15 years. He has
been Biographer in Residence
for ten years.

He served as editor of the
Dictionary of American
Biography from 1929 to 1931,
and he has written extensively
in books about Mr. Jefferson
and other public figures.

His most ambitious project,
now in progress, is a six-volume
biography of Jefferson begun
in 1948.

Prof. Emeritus Dumas Malone

Biographer Receives Medal.

The Kennedy Medal is
the second honor received by
Mr. Malone in the past
month. At the Yale University
commencement exercises in
June he received the Wilbur
Lucius Cross Medal, honoring
Yale graduates who have
attained merit in their fields.