University of Virginia Library

ELECTION OF MERRILL D. PETERSON AS THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

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
Mr. Merrill D. Peterson be and he is hereby elected Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of
History for which he will be paid the sum of $17,500, of which $11,000 will be paid by the State and
$6,500 by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, effective 1 September 1962