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RESOLUTION COMMENDING WILLIAM H. GOODWIN, JR.

The Rector then proposed a resolution thanking and commending Mr. Goodwin for his years of devoted service to the Board and to the University. The resolution following was approved unanimously and the Board gave Mr.Goodwin a standing ovation:

WHEREAS, William H. Goodwin, Jr. is a native of Franklin but has been a resident of Richmond for many years; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Goodwin took a B.S.M.E. from Virginia Tech and the M.B.A. from the Darden School; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Goodwin has had an extraordinarily successful career not only as a businessman but also as a leader in his city and his state; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Goodwin has the great good fortune of having married Alice Tolley of Newport News; and

WHEREAS, Mr.and Mrs. Goodwin together have a profound sense of responsibility toward giving back to their community; and

WHEREAS, Mr.and Mrs. Goodwin's benefactions, not only to their city, their church and the Commonwealth, but also to the University of Virginia, have been wisely considered and quietly given and are too numerous to be listed in a resolution; and

WHEREAS, Mr.and Mrs. Goodwin's generosity to the University has benefited all parts of the institution, a universality symbolized by the Board's naming of the bridge connecting the North and Central Grounds, The Goodwin Bridge; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Goodwin was appointed to the Board of Visitors by Governor Allen in 1996; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Goodwin has been a true leader on the Board, rendering invaluable and lasting service to the University not only as Chair of the Finance Committee and of the Board of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, but in all aspects of the Board of Visitors' activities; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Goodwin's second term on the Board of Visitors ends on the first day of March, 2004;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors salutes its friend and colleague, William H. Goodwin, Jr., thanks Alice T. Goodwin, and expresses its profound gratitude to them both for their service and devotion to the University of Virginia.

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On motion, the meeting was adjourned at 10:25 a.m.