University of Virginia Library

Sixteen Members

The sixteen members of the present Board
are Rector Joseph H. McConnell, C. Waller
Barrett, Mrs. E. Parker Brown, J. Hartwell
Harrison, W. Wright Harrison, Edwin L. Kendig,
Jr., J. Sloan Kuykendall, Lawrence Lewis, Jr.,
Edwin K. Mattern, Mrs. E. Alton Parrish,
Brownie E. Polly, Jr., William S. Potter, Donald
E. Santarelli, Hugh Scott, C. Stuart Wheatley,
Jr., and J. Harvie Wilkinson III.

Mr. McConnell of Richmond, president of
Reynolds Metals Co., is Rector of the
University. He succeeds Frank W. Rogers, a
Roanoke lawyer, as the presiding officer of the
Board of Visitors.

Mr. McConnell, a native of Chester, S.C.,
became president of Reynolds Metals in 1963
and is a former president of
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. and the National
Broadcasting Co.

He graduated from Davidson College and
received his law degree from the University in
1931. While at Davidson he was a center on the
football team and after entering law school,
helped coach freshman football.