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MEMORIAL RESOLUTION FOR B.F.D. RUNK

The following resolution was adopted:

• WHEREAS Benjamin Franklin Dewees Runk was born in Pennsylvania, on April 10, 1906; and
• WHEREAS Mr. Runk took a Bachelor of Science from the University in 1929, the Master of Science in 1930, and the Ph.D. in Biology in 1939; and
• WHEREAS Mr. Runk joined the faculty in 1936, and, after service in the United States Navy during the Second World War, became a full Professor of Biology in 1956; and
• WHEREAS Mr. Runk was Advisor to Students from 1956 to 1959, and Dean of the University from 1959 to 1968; and
• WHEREAS Mr. Runk also served the University as Grand Marshal and in many other ways, including chairmanship of the committees that planned the University's Sesquicentennial celebrations in 1969, the inauguration of President Hereford in 1974, and the ceremonies commemorating the national Bicentennial in 1976; and
• WHEREAS Mr. Runk is remembered by generations of students as an inspired teacher, as a stern but always fair disciplinarian, and as a firm advocate of responsible student self-governance; and
• WHEREAS Mr. Runk died in Charlottesville on August 28, 1994;
• RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia honors the memory of Benjamin Franklin Dewees Runk and his life of devotion and service to the University, and expresses its deepest sympathy to his family.