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Visitors Name Jefferson Architect,
Approve New Scholarship, Fellowship

By JEFF DICKERSON

Beside the Gay Student
Union action, the Board of
Visitors also appointed a
Scholar-in-residence,
established a new scholarship
and fellowship, and made
several faculty appointments
yesterday.

Architectural critic Jean
Labatut was named yesterday
to serve as Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation
Scholar-in-Residence in
Architecture at the University
by the Board of Visitors.

Mr. Labatut, who taught
architecture at Princeton
University for forty years, will
hold the position in the
Architecture School for the
current semester. Praised for
the "incredible flexibility" of
his teaching, Mr. Labatut will
teach a course in advanced
design at the University.

A scholarship and a
fellowship, each bearing the
name of a former leader of the
Virginia Municipal League,
were also established yesterday
by the Board.

The scholarship, established
in the University's Institute of
Government, will be known as
the Wallerstein Scholarship. It
is being made possible by a gift
from Mr. and Mrs. Morton L.
Wallerstein of Richmond.

Preference for the
Wallerstein scholarship will be
given to persons who are in or
plan to enter Virginia
Municipal service.

The graduate fellowship
established by the board w
bear the name of Harold
Baumes.

University Pres. Edgar F.
Shannon, Jr. said that the
financial awards will be of
"immense value in developing
well-trained leaders for public
service in the state."

In other action taken.
The Board also approved the
election of Walter H. Sokel as
Commonwealth Prof. of
German. A native of Austria,
Mr. Sokel taught at Columbia
University for eleven years and
has served on the faculty at
Stanford University since 1964.

The Board also approved
the separation of the Speech
and Drama Department into a
Speech Communication
Department and a Drama
Department. The action
results from the growth of
both areas and the new
directions each is moving in.