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ESTABLISHMENT OF PROFESSORSHIPS

The Board reconvened in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at 4:30 p.m.; all Members present at the previous session, save Messrs. Thompson and Wynne, were present. With Mr. Sandridge presenting the proposed resolutions vice the President, who had been called to Richmond, the Board approved the following resolutions creating professorships:

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JOHN C. BUCHANAN DISTINGUISHED
PROFESSORSHIP IN INTERNAL MEDICINE

WHEREAS, Dr. John Chalkley Buchanan, a native of Dickenson County, took both the B.S. and the M.D. from the University of Virginia; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Buchanan practiced medicine in Wise for many years; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Buchanan represented the far southwestern counties in the Senate in Richmond for nearly twenty years; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Buchanan was a tireless and effective advocate for his region and for the University of Virginia until his death in 1991; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Buchanan’s late sister-in-law, Dr. Jean Lui Phipps, made a generous bequest to the University to create an endowment for a professorship honoring Dr. Buchanan;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the John C. Buchanan Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine,

to be held in the Department of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine, and expresses gratitude not only for the generosity of the late Dr. Phipps, but also for Dr. Buchanan’s years of service to the University and to the Commonwealth.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KAREN JARGOWSKY PROFESSORSHIP
IN PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY

WHEREAS, Karen Jargowsky of Botetourt County suffered from acute mylogenous leukemia and was treated at the University Hospital in 1997; and

WHEREAS, Ms. Jargowsky’s cancer went into remission after treatment by chemotheraphy and she matriculated in the College of Arts and Sciences in August, 1997; and

WHEREAS, Ms. Jargowsky’s cancer returned and she died on April 13, 1998; and

WHEREAS, before Ms. Jargowsky died, the first of four annual Snowballs was held to raise money for a professorship to be named in her honor; and

WHEREAS, in addition to the money raised by the Snowballs, there have been many donors, individual and corporate, to the Jargowsky Chair;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Karen Jargowsky Professorship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, to be held in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, thanks the many donors who have made the Professorship possible, and salutes the memory of Karen Jargowsky whose life and death touched so many people.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEWTON AND RITA MEYERS
PROFESSORSHIP IN ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION

WHEREAS, Daniel Maxwell Meyers of Boston has made a generous gift to the Curry School of Education; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Meyers’ gift has been matched with funds provided by the Thomas A. Saunders family; and

WHEREAS, it is Mr. Meyers’ intent that his gift be used to establish a professorship in the Curry School; and

WHEREAS, the professorship would honor Mr. Meyer’s mother, Rita Meyers, and the memory of his father, the late Newton Meyers, as well as the importance the Meyers family attaches to higher education and access to it;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Newton and Rita Meyers Professorship in Economics of Education, thanks Daniel Maxwell Meyers and the family of Thomas A. Saunders for their generosity in providing funds for the Professorship, and commends the support of the Meyers family for higher education.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ELEANOR SHEA PROFESSORSHIP IN
ART HISTORY

WHEREAS, the late Eleanor Gray Shea was a thoughtful and often anonymous patron of the arts in Charlottesville and at the University; and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Shea left funds, as a bequest, to support professorships in Architecture, in Music, and in Art History; and

WHEREAS, these funds were augmented at his death by Mrs. Shea’s husband, Vincent Shea; and

WHEREAS, the Professorship in Architecture was established by the Board on October 1, 2004;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Eleanor Shea Professorship in Art History and in so doing, pays homage to the memory of Mrs. Shea and her numerous benefactions to the University.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ELEANOR SHEA PROFESSORSHIP IN
MUSIC

WHEREAS, the late Eleanor Gray Shea was a thoughtful and often anonymous patron of the arts in Charlottesville and at the University; and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Shea left funds, as a bequest, to support professorships in Architecture, in Music, and in Art History; and

WHEREAS, these funds were augmented at his death by Mrs. Shea’s husband, Vincent Shea; and

WHEREAS, the Professorship in Architecture was established by the Board on October 1, 2004;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Eleanor Shea Professorship in Music and in so doing, pays homage to the memory of Mrs. Shea and her numerous