BONNIE GUITON HILL, DEAN OF U.VA.'S MCINTIRE SCHOOL, RESIGNS 

Family Considerations Are Key

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 25 -- Bonnie Guiton Hill, dean of
the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, has
announced her resignation from her post, effective Jan. 1, 1997.
	Hill will have completed four-and-a-half years of her
five-year appointment as dean of U.Va.'s undergraduate business
school when she leaves. 
	"Taking family into consideration, I believe I am making the
right decision to join my husband in California, ending four years
of commuting from Virginia," Hill wrote in a letter to faculty and
staff that was delivered late Wednesday.
	O. Whitfield Broome Jr., Kaulback Professor of Commerce and
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at McIntire, said Hill will be
greatly missed.  "She is warm and outgoing and always has treated
everyone, both faculty and classified staff, with respect," Broome
said. "And as a result, everyone respects her."
	He said that Hill has been very supportive of faculty
members, helping them advance their careers and opening the doors of
McIntire's governance even to non-tenured faculty members. Broome
said the faculty has appreciated her willingness to listen to them
and act on their recommendations.
	Broome notes that under Hill's leadership, McIntire has
hired seven women into tenured or tenure-track positions, two-thirds
of all hires for the period, and has been ranked as No. 7 among
undergraduate business schools by U.S. News & World Report.
	Adds Ray C. Hunt Jr., retired Cornell Professor of Free
Enterprise and chairman of the search committee that brought Hill to
Charlottesville: "Bonnie has fulfilled our expectations in every
regard. Perhaps her most important contribution, in light of the
capital campaign, has been in representing the McIntire School to
our external constituencies. She has been outstanding in that
capacity."
	For her part, Hill believes her most important contributions
have been to expand faculty diversity, encourage the development of
a curriculum with a more international flavor, broaden cooperation
between McIntire and U.Va.'s Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration, and help the school raise its share of the
university's $750 million capital campaign. McIntire has just passed
the halfway mark on its goal of $16 million by 2000.
	Also, while at McIntire, Hill and her husband established
the Walter Hill Jr. Scholarship of Entrepreneurship, which is a
$50,000 endowment for an annual scholarship for a student who
demonstrates an entrepreneurial spirit.
	Peter W. Low, U.Va. vice president and provost, has accepted
Hill's resignation. He has not yet named an interim dean, but says
that doing so is a priority. Low plans to appoint a search committee
to find a new dean within a month.
	Hill joined McIntire after serving as secretary for
California's State and Consumer Services Agency. Before that, Hill
held a number of posts in the private and public sectors, including
serving with the federal government as Special Adviser to the
president for Consumer Affairs and director of the U.S. Office of
Consumer Affairs during the Bush administration.
	She also served as commissioner, then as vice chairman, of
the U.S. Postal Rate Commission. Hill was vice president and general
manager of three subsidiaries of the Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical
Corp. and chairman of the board of Merritt Park Corp.
	Hill holds a doctorate in education from the University of
California at Berkeley. She serves on the board of directors of
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., Hershey Foods Corp., and Crestar
Financial Corp.
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July 25, 1996
	For further comment, call O. Whitfield Broome Jr., Kaulback
Professor of Commerce and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at
McIntire,(804) 924-3174; Joseph R. Daniel, vice president of the
McIntire Foundation Board,(540) 825-5898; or Ramon W. Breeden,
president of the McIntire Foundation, at (804) 486-1000.