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Mr. Wilkinson has also been closely
associated with Virginia politics on a personal
level. In 1965 he worked as an intern in the
office of Representative David E. Satterfield
III. He was also an aide in Mr. Holton's
gubernatorial campaign last year.

Mr. Holton said, in appointing Mr.
Wilkinson, that he did not intend to follow a
policy of appointing students to the respective
boards of all state institutions of higher
education.

Instead, he stated that he had just appointed
Mr. Wilkinson to the board because "he is an
exceptional young man."