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Crispell, Paige Take New Positions

Kenneth R. Crispell, dean of the
School of Medicine, has been promoted
to the position of vice president for
health services effective March 1, and
Eugene C. Paige, assistant provost of the
University, will become head of the
University's Office of Institutional
Analysis, beginning next September,

according to a weekend announcement
by President Edgar E. Shannon.

Dr. Crispell succeeds Thomas H.
Hunter as the top medical administrative
officer under President Shannon. Dr.
Hunter is returning to full-time teaching and
research as Owen R. Cheatham Professor of
Science.

As a vice president, Dr. Crispell will be
responsible to Mr. Shannon for the
administration of the entire area of health
affairs in the University's Medical Center
including its 600-bed teaching hospital, the
schools of medicine and nursing and related
programs. The deans of medicine and nursing
will be responsible for the educational affairs of
those two schools and will report to Frank L.
Hereford Jr., vice president and provost, on
educational matters.

"Distinguished Work"

In appointing Dr. Crispell as one of his five
vice presidents, President Shannon said Dr.
Crispell's "distinguished work as dean has
conspicuously enhanced the quality of the
School of Medicine and increased its capacity
to advance medical science and education and
to serve the public."

Dr. Crispell first joined the University in
1949 as instructor in medicine and became an
assistant and then associate professor of
medicine. In 1960, he returned to the
University after two years as professor of
medicine and chairman of the department at
New York Medical College. He was appointed
dean in 1964.

He is on the executive council of the
Association of American Medical Colleges and a
member of the Duke University Medical Center
Board of Visitors. He has served on the
Governor's Advisory Committee for Virginia
Regional Medical Programs and is currently on
the Governor's Study Commission for Medical
Facilities in Roanoke.

Sixty Publications

The author of some 60 books and
publications on internal medicine and
endocrinology, he is a fellow of the American
College of Physicians.

A successor to Dr. Crispell as dean has not
been selected.

Mr. Paige will succeed Francis G. Lankford
Jr., professor of education, who will also return
to full-time teaching and research.

The Office of Institutional Analysis is
responsible for analyzing various phases of the
University's operations — such as enrollment
projections, space utilization and faculty load —
to help the University in its long-range
planning.

As assistant provost, Mr. Paige has served
principally as liaison for academic affairs
between the University and its George Mason
College in Northern Virginia and Clinch Valley
College at Wise.

A native of Dallas, Mr. Paige joined the
University faculty as assistant professor of
mathematics in 1957.

Mr. Lankford, former president of
Longwood College, has been director of the
Office of Institutional Analysis since 1965.
Previously he also has been educational adviser
to the Ford Foundation Pakistan Education
Project, director of research for Richmond city
schools and director of instruction for
Albemarle County schools.

Kenneth R. Crispell

New Vice President For Health Services