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ACTIONS RELATING TO CHAIRHOLDERS

• The following resolution was adopted:
  RESOLVED by The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that the following persons be and they are hereby elected to the named chairs as shown below:

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• Mr. Edwin Burmeister as Commonwealth Professor of Economics, effective September 1, 1979.
• Dr. Robert E. Fechner as William Stamps Royster Professor of Medical Science for Basic Cancer Research and Professor of Pathology and Otolaryngology, effective July 1, 1979.
• Mr. Ernest A. Gellhorn as T. Munford Boyd Professor of Law, effective September 1, 1979.
• Mr. Verdel A. Kolve as Commonwealth Professor of English, effective September 1, 1979.
• Mr. James M. Ortega as Charles Henderson Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, effective September 1, 1979.
• Mr. Glen O. Robinson as John C. Stennis Professor of Law, effective August 1, 1979.

• (b) Changes of Title for Chairholders

• Mr. Robert V. Coleman, from Commonwealth Professor of Physics, to William Barton Rogers Professor of Physics, effective September 1, 1979.
• Mr. Roland McKean, from Commonwealth Professor of Economics, to Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor of Economics, effective September 1, 1979.

• (c) Leaves of Absence for Chairholders

• Mr. Gordon E. Latta, William Stansfield Calcott Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, for the period September 1, 1979, through August 31, 1980, to accept the first invited chair of Applied Math at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California.
• Mr. Glen O. Robinson, John C. Stennis Professor of Law, for the period August 1, 1979, through January 15, 1980, to serve as Chairman of the United States Delegation to the 1979 World Administrative Radio Conference to be held in Geneva, Switzerland.

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• (d) Resignation of Chairholder

• Mr. Warren F. Schwartz, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Law, effective May 31, 1979, to accept a position at Georgetown University Law Center.