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MR. W. ALLAN PERKINS

The President reported that Mr. W. Allan Perkins, who served as Attorney for the University from
1917 to 1952, had died on 26 July 1960. As a mark of thanks for Mr. Perkins' services to the University,
the President proposed and the Board adopted the following resolution

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that
in the death of William Allan Perkins on 26 July 1960 the University and the community have suffered
a deep and permanent loss.

Born in Charlottesville on 6 July 1880, Mr. Perkins was the son and grandson of distinguished
lawyers who had successively served at the Albemarle County Bar since the founding of the University.
A graduate of the University's law class of 1902, he practiced actively for fifty-seven years. Throughout
that period he gave outstanding leadership to his professional associations, to the educational,
religious, and civic activities of the community; and to some of the most constructive work of the
University of Virginia Alumni Association.

As Attorney to this Board from 1915 to 1952, Allan Perkins served the University with singular
devotion and generosity. More than once during these thirty-seven years the Board has spread upon
its minutes resolutions of appreciation, for work beyond the call of duty, voting him increases in
legal fees that he had modestly set too low, or thanks for fees that he had returned to aid some
needy University purpose. We have valued his wise counsel and his warm friendship. We shall hold
him in grateful memory.

RESOLVED, FURTHER, that copies of this resolution be sent to the members of Mr. Perkins' family.