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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LESLIE E. GRAYSON PROFESSORSHIP IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

WHEREAS, Leslie E. Grayson, a native of Hungary and an alumnus of Oberlin College and the University of Michigan, joined the faculty of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration in 1971; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Grayson has been interested particularly in international business, holding teaching and consulting positions abroad and in so doing, establishing the reputation of the University overseas; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Grayson helped establish and was the first director of the Darden School's joint MBA/MA degree program in East Asian studies and was the founding faculty advisor of the International Business Society; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Grayson is known among his students as a superb teacher, one mark of which is the generosity of former students who have contributed to the establishment of a professorship in his honor; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Grayson retired in 1998 as the Isidore Horween Research Professor of Business Administration and was elected Emeritus;

RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors establishes the Leslie E. Grayson Professorship in Business Administration, to be held in the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and thanks Mr. Grayson for his service to the University and the generous donors who made this chair possible.