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RESOLVED, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that
the resignation of Dr. Halstead Shipman Hedges, Professor of Diseases of the
Eye in the Medical School of the University of Virginia as of June 30, 1938,
because of having reached the age of seventy, be and the same is hereby accepted.

The Rector and Visitors desire to record their grateful appreciation of
Dr. Hedges' fine service to the Medical Department of this University during
the last forty continuous years, and wish for him many years of satisfaction and
happiness in his retirement from his University professorship. It is hoped by
the Rector and Visitors that Dr. Hedges will continue his clinical work in the
University Hospital.