U.VA. COMMERCE SCHOOL DEAN BONNIE GUITON HILL
TO SPEAK AT ANNUAL FALL CONVOCATION OCT. 25

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 4 -- Bonnie Guiton Hill, dean of
the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, will
deliver U.Va.'s 1996 Fall Convocation address Oct. 25.  She is the
third dean of the school and the first woman and the first African
American to serve as McIntire's dean. 
	The Lawn ceremony, which opens Family Weekend, will honor
555 students who earned grade-point averages of 3.4 or higher in
their first two years at the University.   
	The Thomas Jefferson Award, given annually to a member of
the University community who exemplifies in character and
achievements the ideals of the University's founder, also will be
presented.  The event is open to the public.  Parking will be
available at University Hall with frequent bus service to and from
the Lawn area.
	Faculty in academic regalia will step off from the Rotunda
to the South end of the Lawn at 2 p.m.  In case of inclement
weather, the event will take place in University Hall.  A decision
to move indoors will be announced by 10 a.m.  Classes are not
suspended for the occasion. 
	Hill joined U.Va. in 1992, becoming one of only seven women
deans nationwide among the 245 accredited schools of business.  She
plans to leave U.Va. in December to join her family in California. 
	Hill has worked in business, the non-profit sector and in
government, including a stint as Special Advisor to the President
for Consumer Affairs and Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer
Affairs during President Bush's administration.  Prior to coming to
Virginia, Hill worked as Secretary of California's State and
Consumer Services Agency.
	Six-hundred-fifty undergraduates are enrolled in U.Va.'s
Commerce School.  The students build on a liberal arts foundation
while pursuing a professional business program in accounting,
finance, international business, management, management information,
systems or marketing.  Ninety graduate students at the school pursue
a one-year master's degree in accounting or management information
systems.    
	Family Weekend at U.Va. also includes the University Forum,
a public address by President John T. Casteen III on the state of
the University, followed by a public question and answer session
with U.Va. leaders.  It will take place Oct. 26 on the South Lawn
from 9:30 to 11 a. m.  The rain site is Cabell Hall Auditorium.
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October 3, 1996
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