University of Virginia Library

Dean Lectures Ravens
On Jefferson Heritage

Making his first public
appearance before a
University-wide audience, D. Alan
Williams, Dean of Student Affairs,
will speak tonight at 7:30 in
Jefferson Hall, West Range, on the
relevance of "Jeffersonianism" for
the University student. Mr. Williams
has agreed to answer questions
from the audience afterwards.

The talk is being sponsored by
the Raven Society and is designed
as the introduction to a series of
Raven programs during the
Sesquicentennial year investigating
the Jeffersonian heritage.

Mr. Williams, associate professor
of history and former assistant
provost, assumed the new post of
dean of student affairs this summer
as the successor to B.F. D. Runk,
who retired as Dean of the
University.

"Mr. Williams has already made
a number of very significant
changes in the way the deanship
operates," according to a
spokesman from the Raven Society,
"yet he is still something of an
unknown factor for many members
of the University community.

"His address' should do much,
however, to help us understand his
concept of the deanship and his
approach to the problems students
face."

The spokesman added that Mr.
Williams "will treat the subject with
both erudition and wit, as a scholar
in the field of Virginia history and
as a popular lecturer."