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RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING IRBY BRUCE CAUTHEN, JR.
 
 
 
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RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING IRBY BRUCE CAUTHEN, JR.

The following resolution was adopted:

  • WHEREAS Irby Bruce Cauthen, Jr., a South Carolinian, took the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Virginia; and
  • WHEREAS Mr. Cauthen returned to the University in 1954, as Assistant Professor of English, rising to Associate Professor and then Professor in 1964, and finally Professor Emeritus in 1987; and
  • WHEREAS Mr. Cauthen was Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1962 to 1978; and
  • WHEREAS Mr. Cauthen received numerous awards and honors during his career at the University, including the Thomas Jefferson Award; and
  • WHEREAS Mr. Cauthen will be remembered by innumerable students as a superb teacher and by colleagues for his scholarship and for his qualities as a most capable administrator;
  • RESOLVED that the Board expresses its deepest sympathy to Mrs. Cauthen and her family on the death of Irby Bruce Cauthen, Jr., and notes, too, this profound loss to the University of Virginia.