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After a short recess, the Board reconvened at 4:10 p.m., in the Dome Room of the Rotunda and adopted the following resolutions:

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WILLIAM PARSON VISITING PROFESSORSHIP IN TEACHING EXCELLENCE IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

WHEREAS, William Parson was Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine from 1949 to 1966; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Parson is renowned for his dedication to medical education, a career that has covered sixty years of teaching; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Dudley B. Anderson, a former student of Dr. Parson, organized an effort to raise money to honor Dr. Parson's commitment to teaching; and

WHEREAS, numerous friends, colleagues and former students, in addition to the Charles A. Dana Foundation and Dr. Parson's family, have contributed generously to the fund;

RESOLVED that the Board establishes the William Parson Visiting Professorship in Teaching Excellence, to be held in the Department of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine, and thanks the many donors whose generosity has made this possible.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MERRILL D. PETERSON PROFESSORSHIP IN THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

WHEREAS, Merrill D. Peterson, a native of Kansas, joined the faculty of the University in 1963 as Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History and retired in 1987, having served also as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for four years; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Peterson is recognized for his preeminence as a Jefferson scholar, having published a number of works on Thomas Jefferson including The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1961; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Bahman Batmanghelidj of McLean is both a friend of the University and a great admirer of Thomas Jefferson; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Batmanghelidj has made a generous gift to the University for a professorship in the Architecture School to honor Mr. Peterson's Jefferson scholarship as well as Thomas Jefferson's architectural genius;

RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors expresses its thanks to Mr. Batmanghelidj and establishes the Merrill D. Peterson Professorship in the School of Architecture. The Peterson Professor will serve for one term, with the possibility of renewal, and will be either a member of the Architecture School faculty or an invited distinguished professor.

NAMING OF A NEW BUILDING IN THE ENGINEERING SCHOOL COMPLEX AS WILSDORF HALL

WHEREAS, Heinz G.F.Wilsdorf and Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, natives of Germany who both took the Ph.D., from Goettingen University, joined the faculty of the School of Engineering in 1963; and

WHEREAS, Heinz Wilsdorf, a metallurgist, became, in due course, the first Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, a physicist, the University Professor of Applied Science; and

WHEREAS, Heinz Wilsdorf retired in 1991 and died in 2000, and Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf continues to teach, both of them having had most distinguished careers; and

WHEREAS, Gregory H. Olsen, who took the Ph.D., from the School of Engineering in 1971, has made a generous gift to the University for the construction of a new building at the School of Engineering;

RESOLVED that the Board thanks Gregory H. Olsen for his generosity and designates the building to be constructed with his gift, Wilsdorf Hall in honor of the late Heinz G. F. Wilsdorf and his widow, Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, both of them distinguished former members of the faculty of the School of Engineering.

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