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APPOINTMENTS

In accordance with the resolution adopted by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia on July 14, 1945, authorizing the President to give the proper
professorial standing on the faculty to officers of the armed services on duty at the University of
Virginia in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, the President announced the following
appointments.

Colonel Earl R. Tash, U.S.A., as Professor of Air Science and Tactics, effective in the
summer of 1955, at no salary from the University. This is a replacement for Colonel Logan,
Col. H. R. Page, who was appointed in June, having been sent by the Army to other duty.

Captain Richard Wilder Smith, U.S.N., as Professor of Naval Science, effective in the summer
of 1955, at no salary from the University, as a replacement for Captain Livdahl.

First Lieutenant James F. Lehan, U.S.A., as Assistant Professor of Military Science and
Tactics, at no salary from the University, as of September, 1955.

Captain William A. Beczkalo, U.S.A., as Assistant Professor of Air Science, at no salary
from the University, as of September, 1955.

Lt. Col. Norman S. Slater, U.S.A., as Professor of Military Science and Tactics, at no
salary from the University, as of August 1955, this being a promotion of Colonel Slater to
succeed the late Colonel Wood.