AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE OF CHARACTER ANNOUNCED AT U.VA.

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 30 -- An administrator who has
helped boost the number of minority students at the University of
Virginia, along with two fourth-year students, will be honored with
Algernon Sydney Sullivan awards at the upcoming Valediction
Exercises on May 19.
	Michael A. Mallory, assistant dean and director of U.Va.'s
minority recruitment, was the faculty member named to receive this
annual award, which is granted on the basis of a person's excellence
of character and a love for, and service to, humankind, according to
Larry Sabato, professor of government and foreign affairs, who
serves on the award selection committee.
	The two students, one male and one female, who also are
slated to receive this award are Edward M. Trusty Jr. and Doron
Samuel-Siegel.
	Mallory, a native of Madison who became U.Va.'s director of
minority recruitment in 1989, has contributed in numerous ways to
the university community. Along with serving on various academic
committees and counseling thousands of students, he has spent
hundreds of hours on the road, traveling from city to city to meet
with alumni, reading high school students' applications for
admission, and talking to individuals who have been accepted at
U.Va. to persuade them to enroll.
	M. Rick Turner, dean of U.Va.'s Office of African-American
affairs, attributes much of the university's success in attracting,
retaining and graduating black students to Mallory's efforts.
According to U.S. News & World Report, 11.5 percent of U.Va.'s
entering class in the fall of 1994 was black -- the highest
percentage of any of the country's top universities.
	The graduating students chosen for the award also have
contributed in many ways to the university and to their communities.
	Trusty, of Baltimore, Md., has worked with at-risk children
during his summers at home, through the Camp I Can program, which
teaches not only the fundamentals of football, but the fundamentals
of life. At U.Va., Trusty served as president of the Street
Academics program at Charlottesville High School, which provides
mentors for black high-school students, saw its attendance rise
under his leadership. And he worked as a peer advisor at the Office
of African American Affairs.
	Samuel-Siegel, of Newton, N.J., has served as a resident
assistant for the past two years and as co-chair for the entire
resident staff program this year. She also has been involved with
the Hillel Jewish Center, worked at the Sexual Assault Resource
Agency and volunteered at the Learning Needs and Evaluation Center
while maintaining excellent grades.
	The Algernon Sydney Sullivan awards were established by the
New York Southern Society in 1925 to honor its first president. The
awards are presented annually at U.Va. and at about a dozen other
universities in the United States to two undergraduate degree
candidates and a member of the university community. Recipients
receive medallions, certificates and books on Algernon Sydney
Sullivan. 
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April 30, 1996