 | Board of Visitors minutes October 5, 2007 |  |
Professorships and Namings
The Board of Visitors met, as the full Board, at 4:00 p.m., in the Dome Room of the Rotunda to establish six professorships, name a building, and hear a report from the President on two other namings.
Bavaro Hall
The Board voted to name the new building at the Curry School of Education Bavaro Hall after the late Anthony Bavaro, in accordance with the wishes of the donor, Daniel M. Meyers.
The resolution is as follows:
APPROVING THE NAMING OF BAVARO HALL
WHEREAS, Daniel M. Meyers of Massachusetts, Chair of the Curry School of Education Foundation, has made a magnificent gift to the Curry School, the largest in the School's history and the second largest to an American school of education; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Meyers' gift is an expression of his strong belief in the vital importance of higher education; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Meyers holds as a role model the late Anthony D. Bavaro, a dedicated and unselfish teacher who taught in inner city schools in the Boston area for forty years, and has suggested that the Curry School could find no better role model; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Meyers has requested that the new Curry School building, to be constructed adjacent to Ruffner Hall with his gift, be named in honor of Mr. Bavaro; and
WHEREAS, the President and the University Committee on Names have concurred in Mr. Meyers' request;
RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors names the new Curry School building Bavaro Hall, thanks Mr. Meyers for his generous gift, and honors the memory of Mr. Anthony Bavaro for his dedication to education and for the example he set as a master teacher.
The Board then voted to establish three professorships in the School of Medicine, as follows:
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SPENCER P. BASS, M.D., TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY PROFESSORSHIP IN FAMILY MEDICINE IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
WHEREAS, Spencer P. Bass of Tarboro, North Carolina, took the M.D. from the University in 1906 and returned to Tarboro where he practiced family medicine for the rest of his life; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Bass was an outstanding student at the University, having been one of the early members of the Raven Society and President of his graduating medical class; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Bass's son, Spencer P. Bass, Jr., took the M.D. from the University in 1949; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Spencer P. Bass, Jr. made an extremely generous bequest to the School of Medicine, part of it to be used to establish a chair in memory of his father;
RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Spencer P. Bass, M.D., Twenty-First Century Professorship in Family Medicine, to be held in the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine, and remembers with gratitude the contributions of the Doctors Bass, father and son, to the life of the University.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JEAN AND RONALD BUTCHER, M.D., EMINENT SCHOLARS PROFESSORSHIP IN NEUROLOGY IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
WHEREAS, Ronald H.G. Butcher, M.D., as a faculty fellow trained under the late Dr. T.R. Johns of the School of Medicine; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Jean Robertson Butcher took an M.A. in Education while her husband was at the School of Medicine; and
WHEREAS, Dr. and Mrs. Butcher subsequently lived in Richmond for many years where Dr. Butcher practiced psychiatry and was a member of the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia and Mrs. Butcher taught in the Hopewell public schools; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Butcher died in 1989; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Butcher died in 2007, leaving generous bequests to the School of Medicine for the establishment of two professorships;
RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Jean and Ronald Butcher, M.D., Eminent Scholars Professorship in Neurology, to be held in the Department of Neurology at the School of Medicine, and pays tribute to the memory of Mrs. Butcher and her generosity and to Dr. Butcher's contributions to his profession.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JEAN AND RONALD BUTCHER, M.D., EMINENT SCHOLARS PROFESSORSHIP IN BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
WHEREAS, Ronald H.G. Butcher, M.D., as a faculty fellow trained under the late Dr. T.R. Johns of the School of Medicine; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Jean Robertson Butcher took an M.A. in Education while her husband was at the School of Medicine; and
WHEREAS, Dr. and Mrs. Butcher subsequently lived in Richmond for many years where Dr. Butcher practiced psychiatry and was a member of the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia and Mrs. Butcher taught in the Hopewell public schools; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Butcher died in 1989; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Butcher died in 2007, leaving generous bequests to the School of Medicine for the establishment of two professorships;
RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Jean and Ronald Butcher, M.D., Eminent Scholars Professorship in Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, to be held in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the School of Medicine, and pays tribute to the memory of Mrs. Butcher and her generosity and to Dr. Butcher's contributions to his profession.
The Board next voted to establish three professorships at The University of Virginia's College at Wise:
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KATHLEEN MILLER STRUNK PROFESSORSHIP IN NURSING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE
WHEREAS, Kathleen Miller Strunk had a longtime interest in the education of young people in Southwest Virginia and Kentucky; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Strunk died in 2004, leaving a generous bequest to The University of Virginia's College at Wise for scholarships for students from Southwest Virginia in Nursing and for two professorships in Nursing;
RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Kathleen Miller Strunk Professorship in Nursing, to be held at The University of Virginia's College at Wise, and pays tribute to the memory of Mrs. Strunk and her commitment to higher education and to the people of Southwest Virginia.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE THURSTON H. STRUNK PROFESSORSHIP IN NURSING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE
WHEREAS,Thurston H. Strunk of Abingdon and his wife, Kathleen Miller Strunk, had a deep and abiding interest in the welfare of Southwest Virginia and its people, and particularly in higher education in the area; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Strunk died in 1980 and Mrs. Strunk in 2004; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Strunk made a very generous bequest to The University of Virginia's College at Wise for student scholarships in Nursing and for two professorships in Nursing;
RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Thurston H. Strunk Professorship in Nursing, to be held at The University of Virginia's College at Wise, pays tribute to the support Mr. and Mrs. Strunk gave to Southwest Virginia in so many ways, and to the generosity of Mrs. Strunk whose bequest has made possible the establishment of this chair.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NAPOLEON HILL PROFESSORSHIP IN BUSINESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE
WHEREAS,the late Napoleon Hill of Wise County was a national figure — an author and leader and advisor of presidents, but withal a citizen of his native county; and
WHEREAS, before his death in 1970, Mr. Hill established the Napoleon Hill Foundation, an organization that has had a particularly close relationship with The University of Virginia's College at Wise; and
WHEREAS,in addition to its numerous benefactions to the College, the Foundation in 2002 established an endowment to be used for a professorship; and
WHEREAS,funds in the endowment are now sufficient to support the proposed professorship;
RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the Napoleon Hill Professorship in Business, to be held at The University of Virginia's College at Wise, and expresses its gratitude to the Napoleon Hill Foundation for this latest of its many benefactions to the College.
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