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5963

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.