Board of Visitors minutes :: April 14, 2000 :: University of Virginia Library

WHEREAS, Mr. Scott, currently the Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Professor of Law and the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, has a distinguished national reputation as a scholar and teacher, having been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in recognition of these achievements; and

WHEREAS, an extraordinary number of Dean Scott's friends and associates, and alumni of the School of Law, have contributed generously to create a professorship in his honor;

RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors establishes the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professorship in Law, in the School of Law, and joins the many donors to the professorship in applauding the achievements of Dean Scott.

RENAMING OF THE DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP IN NEUROSURGERY AS THE JOHN A. JANE PROFESSORSHIP IN NEUROSURGERY

The following resolution was adopted:

WHEREAS, the Board of Visitors in 1985 established the Distinguished Professorship in Neurosurgery; and

WHEREAS, Dr. John A. Jane has been a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine since 1969 and Chair or Co-Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery from that date forward; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Jane is a most distinguished and gifted surgeon and teacher with an international reputation; and

WHEREAS, since the creation of the Distinguished Professorship in Neurosurgery, colleagues, friends and former students of Dr. Jane have made gifts to the School of Medicine in anticipation of the Distinguished Professorship being renamed in honor of Dr. Jane;

RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors renames the Distinguished Professorship in Neurosurgery the John A. Jane Professorship in Neurosurgery in honor of the contributions Dr. Jane has made to research, teaching and the practice of neurosurgery, and commends him for these contributions.

NAMING OF THE MEDICAL CENTER CHILD CARE CENTER AS THE MALCOLM W. COLE CHILD CARE CENTER

The following resolution was adopted:

WHEREAS, Mr. Malcolm W. Cole, an alumnus of the University, became Director in 1990 of the child care center established a few years earlier at the Blue Ridge Hospital; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Cole soon realized that the Child Care Center would have to be relocated when the Blue Ridge Hospital closed; and

WHEREAS, largely because of Mr. Cole's vision and perseverance, plans were made to build a new Center on Estes Street, close to the Medical Center; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Cole died on January 19, 1999; and

WHEREAS, the new Center is to open in April, 2000;

RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors names the Child Care Center the Malcolm W. Cole Child Care Center in honor of Mr. Cole's work on behalf of the Center and of his vision of what it should be.