University of Virginia Library

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

The following resolution was adopted:

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that the following faculty members be and they are hereby granted leave of absence:

Mr. Martin C. Battestin, Associate Professor of English, for one year, effective 1 September
1964, without pay, to accept a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mr. David M. Bevington, Associate Professor of English, for one year, effective 1 September
1964, without pay, to accept a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mr. Joseph L. Blotner, Associate Professor of English, for one semester, effective 1 February
1965, without pay, to accept a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mr. George P. Garrett, Associate Professor of English, for one year, effective 1 September
1964, without pay, to accept a Visiting Professorship at Princeton University.

Mr. Billy J. Gilpin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, for one year, effective 1 September
1964, without pay, to work on his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Raleigh.

Mr. Peter R. Goethals, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, for one year, effective 1 September
1964, without pay, to conduct field research among the Bajau of North Borneo.

Mr. Walter Hauser, Assistant Professor of History, for one year, effective 1 September 1964,
without pay, to continue research and writing.

Mr. Paul E. Kelly, Assistant Professor of Education, for one year, effective 1 September
1964, without pay, to serve as Associate Director of the School Social Science Curriculum
Materials Development Project sponsored by the American Sociological Association.

Mr. Charles P. Nash, Professor of Law, for one semester, effective 1 February 1965, without
pay, to assume individual study.

Dr. William Parson, Henry B. Mulholland Professor of Medicine, for one year, effective
1 July 1964, to be a Visiting Professor at Makerere University at Kampala, Uganda.

Mr. Eugene B. Piedmont, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Sociology) in the School of
Medicine and Lecturer in Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, for one year, effective
1 August 1964, without pay, to accept a post-doctoral traineeship in the Community Mental Health
Research Training Program of the Social Science Institute of Washington University in St. Louis.

Mr. A. J. Gustin Priest, Professor of Law, for one semester, effective 1 September 1964,
without pay, to complete the preparation of a textbook on public utilities.

Mr. Paul Shoup, Assistant Professor of Foreign Affairs, for one year, effective 1 September
1964, without pay, to do research and write a book on the Yugoslav nationalities problem.

Mr. W. Ralph Singleton, Miller Professor of Biology and Agriculture, for one year, effective
1 September 1964, without pay, to work with the International Atomic Energy Agency and teach a
course at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.