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Boyd Receives Fellowship From American Bar

T. Munford Boyd, Doherty Professor
Emeritus of Law at the University, has been
named a fellow of the American Bar
Foundation.

Mr. Boyd was a member of the University's
School of Law faculty from 1946 to 1970 and
the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson award
given to the outstanding member of the
University community. Blind since childhood,
he was an unsuccessful candidate for Virginia
Attorney General in 1961.

Chosen by the members of their respective
bars, the Fellows of the American Bar
Foundation promote scholarship in the legal
profession and generally improve the public
image of the field of law. The American Bar
Foundation is the legal research affiliate of the
American Bar Association.

WTJU Soul Music

WTJU radio announces that their soul music
show with Stan Bridges will originate live, from
Lane High School this afternoon. The program
has been developed with the cooperation of
Lane Student Council and administration. The
"Bridge" invites everyone to tune in between 3
and 6 p.m. A portion of the show will be
simultaneously cast on WUVA.

French Lecture

The Department of French Literature and
the Department of English will sponsor a
lecture commemorating the centennial of the
birth of Paul Valery, French poet and essayist,
Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the South Meeting
Room of Newcomb Hall.

Jackson Matthews is the general editor of
Valery's Collected Works which is being
published by Princeton University Press.

New City Newspaper

The Jefferson Journal, Charlottesville's
newest newspaper, began publication yesterday
with a 28 page issue that was distributed free
throughout the city and county.

Planning to have its main emphasis on local
news, the Journal will appear every Thursday
morning. As of now, there are no plans for
initiating paid subscriptions. The paper will be
delivered free to anyone in the city that
requests it.

Women's Lib Party

Charlottesville Women's Liberation
will sponsor a meeting and party on Sunday at 8
p.m. for all women interested in women's
liberation.

The meeting will take place at the Wesley
Foundation on Lewis Mountain Road. All
women are invited whether or not they are
already involved in Women's liberation
activities.

Participants are requested to bring their own
food and drink, since Charlottesville Women's
Liberation has no funds.

Groups for activity in various areas of
women's liberation have been formed by the
organization. The groups will work in such
fields as consciousness raising, political
education, carpentry, women's health
problems, photography, and day care work.

Further information is available by calling
296-0116 before 5:15 p.m., or 296-4403 in the
evening, and asking for Dianne.

Health Discussion

A series of discussions on health care delivery,
led by nationally prominent medical personnel,
will begin Monday at the University's Medical
School.

George Tolbert, director of the office of
planning and development at the School of
Medicine of Howard University, will speak at
the first symposium which will be held in the
Medical School Amphitheater at 5 p.m.

The first session will focus on problems of
urban health care delivery and will include a
showing of Frederick Wiseman's film,
"Hospitals".

Sponsored by the Mulholland Society, a
student organization in the School of Medicine,
the discussion series will be held every Monday,
concluding with two lectures in December and
one in January.

IFC Meeting

The Interfraternity Council will hold a
Governing Board meeting and a President's
Council meeting on Monday.

The meeting of the Governing Board will
take place at 6:30 p.m., and the Presidents'
Council meeting will follow it at 7 p.m. Both
meetings will take place at the IFC office in
Newcomb Hall.

Technology Course

The University of Virginia School of
Engineering and Applied Science is offering a
new course, "Technology and Its Impact on
Society."

Louis T. Rader, professor of electrical
engineering will teach the course. Emphasis is
to be placed on the areas of energy, agriculture,
biomedicine, materials and communication, and
how they are related to other non-scientific
areas.

There are no prerequisite College science
courses. Instruction will include guest speakers
and papers written by students in the course.

The purpose of the course is to help
students who plan careers in non-scientific areas
to gain a basic understanding of the
environment, enabling them to make
day-to-day decisions which deal with these
phenomena.