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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JOHN C. BUCHANAN DISTINGUISHED
PROFESSORSHIP IN INTERNAL MEDICINE

WHEREAS, Dr. John Chalkley Buchanan, a native of Dickenson County, took both the B.S. and the M.D. from the University of Virginia; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Buchanan practiced medicine in Wise for many years; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Buchanan represented the far southwestern counties in the Senate in Richmond for nearly twenty years; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Buchanan was a tireless and effective advocate for his region and for the University of Virginia until his death in 1991; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Buchanan’s late sister-in-law, Dr. Jean Lui Phipps, made a generous bequest to the University to create an endowment for a professorship honoring Dr. Buchanan;

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors establishes the John C. Buchanan Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine,

to be held in the Department of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine, and expresses gratitude not only for the generosity of the late Dr. Phipps, but also for Dr. Buchanan’s years of service to the University and to the Commonwealth.