University of Virginia Library

RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION FOR GIFT TO DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS

The President proposed and the Board adopted the following resolution

WHEREAS Mrs. Sallie Shepherd Perkins has made a magnificent gift to the University of Virginia
for the purpose of supplementing the salary of a distinguished Professorship in Pediatrics in the
School of Medicine in honor of and as a memorial to her grandfather, Benjamin Armistead Shepherd,
and her brother, Benjamin Armistead Shepherd, II,

AND WHEREAS this Board has established a Chair in the Department of Pediatrics in the School
of Medicine, to be known as the Benjamin Armistead Shepherd Professorship of Pediatrics, in order
to carry out the wishes of Mrs. Perkins,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia that we hereby record our deep gratitude for this gift which will enable the
University to attain further eminence in the field of pediatrics, and direct the Secretary to
transmit a copy of this resolution to Mrs. Perkins as a mark of our warm appreciation.