Board of Visitors minutes May 14, 1999 | ||
RENAMING OF A DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP IN ARTS AND SCIENCES
The following resolution was adopted:
- WHEREAS, the Arts & Sciences Alumni Council in 1992 endowed a Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences which was established by the Board of Visitors that year; and
- WHEREAS, Hugh P. Kelly at the time of his death in 1992 was Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Professor of Physics and had been Provost of the University and previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and an atomic physicist of international repute; and
- WHEREAS, in 1992 the Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences was renamed the Hugh P. Kelly Distinguished Professorship in honor of Mr. Kelly; and
- WHEREAS, inadvertently the renaming of the Professorship was not brought to the Board of Visitors for approval;
- RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors renames the Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences, established by the Arts & Sciences Alumni Council in 1992, the Hugh P. Kelly Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences and in so doing honors the distinguished career and service to the University of Mr. Kelly.
Board of Visitors minutes May 14, 1999 | ||