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RESOLUTION COMMENDING CHARLES LEE BROWN

The Board ratified the following resolution, adopted previously by consent and presented at a dinner on March 15th honoring Mr. Charles L. Brown.

WHEREAS, Charles Lee Brown took a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1943; and

WHEREAS, after service in the United States Navy, Mr. Brown joined the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and was its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer when he retired in 1986; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Brown served on the Board of Visitors from 1986 to 1990; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Brown has served the University in many other ways: as a Trustee of the University of Virginia Endowment Fund, as the Chairman of the New York Campaign in the first Capital Campaign, as the Speaker at the Commencement Exercises in 1980, and as Vice Chairman of the Campaign Executive Committee in the Capital Campaign just completed, among a multitude of acts of service and devotion; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Brown and his wife, Ann Lee Saunders Brown, have given tirelessly of themselves to the University, not just in resources but as representatives of the best of the cherished University of Virginia traditions of integrity and leadership.

RESOLVED, the Board of Visitors, on the occasion of the successful completion of the Capital Campaign, thanks Charles Lee Brown for his outstanding leadership in the Campaign and for all that he has done for the University of Virginia.