NEW LAW COMPLEX BUILDING TO BE NAMED JAMES C. SLAUGHTER HALL IN
HONOR OF UNIVERSITY BENEFACTOR AND ALUMNUS

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 6 -- James C. Slaughter of New
York, a University of Virginia alumnus and major benefactor, has
made possible an additional $1.5-million gift from the Horace W.
Goldsmith Foundation, of which he is the managing director.  The
gift to the School of Law was announced at today's Board of Visitors
meeting launching the University's $700-million capital campaign.
	This commitment comes on top of two earlier pledges totaling
$2.5 million that Slaughter made through the foundation early in the
campaign. 
	In recognition of Slaughter's generosity the west hall (the
former Darden building) of the new Law Grounds complex will be named
James C. Slaughter Hall.
	Slaughter and the Goldsmith Foundation also have made a
generous gift to the College and Graduate School Arts and Sciences,
where they joined forces with the National Endowment for the
Humanities to create the Horace W. Goldsmith Distinguished
Professorship in the Humanities.
	Slaughter, who is chairman emeritus of Associated Metals and
Minerals Corp. and also serves as managing director of the
Metropolitan Opera, is a 1949 graduate of the College of Arts and
Sciences and a 1951 graduate of the law school.  He was one of the
founders of the University's Student Legal Forum.
	He is a member of the Law School Foundation Board of
Trustees, the Law School Campaign Executive Committee and the Law
Grounds Building Advisory Committee.
	He said in an interview that he considers the law school
"the foundation for all my professional success" and that he wishes
to do all he can "to ensure that others who turn to Virginia Law
find an even higher level of excellence" than what he experienced.
	Slaughter's professional affiliations have also brought the
law school a scholarship and an award in his name, courtesy of the
Textile Veterans Association of New York.
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October 6, 1995