PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BIRTHDAY WEEK EVENTS AT U.VA.
INCLUDE PRESENTATION BY URBAN VISIONARY JANE JACOBS, SPECIAL
WORKSHOP ON THE UNIVERSITY'S MODERN HISTORY

	¥ Noted urban theorist Jane Jacobs, award-winning author of
the classic book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities,"
will make a public talk at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Minor
Hall Auditorium as part of the University of Virginia's Founder's
Day week's activities.

	Jacobs, a visionary who has taught urban planners to
understand cities as intricate organisms, will receive the 31st
annual Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in Architecture as
part of U.Va.'s commemoration of Jefferson's 253rd birthday.

	¥ An exhibit of Jacobs's personal papers, photos and other
key material related to her life work, will be on display at the
School of Architecture, Campbell Hall second floor, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
weekdays, April 8-26.

	¥ On Friday, April 12, following a private luncheon in the
Rotunda, a tree will be planted in honor of former U.Va. President
Edgar F. Shannon Jr.  President John T. Casteen III and other
University officials will participate in the planting, scheduled for
roughly 2 p.m. between Pavilions VI and VIII on the Lawn. Shannon,
who served as U.Va.'s president from 1959 to 1974 and who is an
English professor emeritus, will attend the event.

	¥ At the Rotunda luncheon the 20th annual Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation Award in Law will be conferred posthumously upon
Rex E. Lee, former U.S. Solicitor General and former president of
Brigham Young University, who died in March.  His widow, Janet Lee,
will accept the award at the luncheon.  The Jefferson Award in Law
and the Jefferson Medal in Architecture are the highest outside
honors conferred by U.Va.

	¥ On Saturday, April 13, Jefferson's birthday, a special
research workshop on the University's 20th history will be held from
8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.  A highlight of the 1995-96 academic year,
which marks the centennial of the disastrous fire that gutted
Jefferson's landmark Rotunda, the workshop will focus on research in
progress and future directions for research on U.Va.'s 20th century
history.  Headquarters for workshop sessions will be in Minor Hall.
The sessions are free and open to the public. To register in advance
please call (804) 924-7221. 

	¥ Also on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. the Darden Graduate School
of Business Administration will hold a processional.  The
processional, followed by a convocation and dedication of the
business school's new grounds, is part of the reunion weekend's
activities.

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April 5, 1996

START DATE:  Immediate
KILL DATE:     April 14, 1996