U.VA. BOARD OF VISITORS ESTABLISHES TWO PROFESSORSHIPS 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 10 -- Two new chaired
professorships were established by the University of Virginia Board
of Visitors at its meeting here today, bringing the number of U.Va.
endowed chairs to 371.
	In the College of Arts and Sciences, the board established
the Thomas C. Sorensen Professorship in Political and Social
Thought, to attract and retain an eminent scholar to serve as
director of the college's Interdisciplinary Political and Social
Thought honors program. The chair was made possible by a gift from
Sorensen, a guest lecturer in the Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs who became interested in the program through his
friendship with its current director, William Miller. Sorensen, a
Charlottesville resident, is consultant to the chairman of the board
of The Capital Group Companies, Inc., one of the world's largest
investment management firms, and a former vice president of one of
the company's subsidiaries, Capital International Ltd.
	In the School of Nursing, the board established the Theresa
A. Thomas Professorship in Primary Care Nursing to attract and
retain faculty dedicated to teaching, research and clinical work in
that area of patient care. The chair was made possible by the
Richmond-based Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Foundation, which has
supported primary care nursing at U.Va. since 1988. The gift is part
of a larger pledge to the nursing school, which also established the
Theresa A. Thomas Intensive Care Unit Simulation Laboratory and the
Theresa A. Thomas Nursing Scholarship in Primary Care. The
foundation honors the memory of Theresa A. Thomas, a nurse who died
in 1972 as a result of inadequate primary health care resources in
the area where she lived.
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November 10, 1995