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ALLAN TALBOTT GWATHMEY MEMORIAL AWARD

The President presented a letter from Mr. Robert H. Kean, proposing the establishment of the
Allan Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award and setting forth the conditions of the Award. He 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
we accept with grateful appreciation the gift by the colleagues and friends of the late Allan Talbott
Gwathmey, Professor of Chemistry at the University, of funds to establish the Allan Talbott Gwathmey
Memorial Fund, the income from which is to be used for an annual Allan Talbott Gwathmey Award to be
made to a graduate student who, in the year preceding the Award, produced outstanding evidence of
research ability in a fundamental problem of the physical sciences in the form of a paper, report,
publication, or dissertation

RESOLVED FURTHER that the Secretary be requested to send a copy of this resolution to Mrs. Gwathmey,
and to convey to Mr. Robert H. Kean, as the representative of the donors, the thanks of the Board for
this fitting memorial to a dedicated teacher and scientist of the University