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Professorship in Historical Collections Announced (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) 

I'm posting this message (with very good news) for Joan Echtenkamp 
Klein because a technical glitch bounced it when she tried to post.  
Sorry, Joan!

You can learn more about the Historical Collections at the Claude Moore 
Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (I 
was particularly interested by their exhibit, "A Journey Through Time 
An On-line Scrapbook for UVA Medical and Nursing Alumni"), via their 
website: 
<http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/>


Russell Johnson
STHC-L administrator


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Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990708153710.007fb100@unix.mail.virginia.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 15:37:10 -0400
To: STHC-L@library.ucla.edu
From: Joan <jre@virginia.edu>
Subject: Professorship in Historical Collections Announced

RELEASE ON RECEIPT

CONTACT: Linda Watson
(804) 924-0187

U.Va. HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY RECEIVES $1.04 MILLION
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 2 -- The University of Virginia's Claude Moore
Health Sciences Library has received a $1.04 million gift-the largest in
the library's history. Alvin V. Baird, Jr. and his wife Nancy, of
Harrisonburg, Va. donated the funds, which are expected to generate more
than $1 million dollars over the next 16 years. The gift will create and
fund the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Professorship in Historical Collections.
"We were pleased to make this gift to the health sciences library because
we realize the importance of properly archiving historical materials," said
Nancy Baird. "In addition, some of Al's happiest years were spent at the
university."

The Bairds' gift will establish an endowed professorship for the library's
curator of historical collections, ensuring continuing professional
oversight for the rare books, manuscripts, archival records and photographs
that comprise the collection.  This will enable the library's historical
collections and services department, which already has a national
reputation for excellence, to better serve an audience that includes
medical and nursing students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, scholars and
researchers.

The Bairds have a generous record of giving to U.Va., especially to the
health sciences library. "In the past three years, Alvin and Nancy Baird
contributed more than $100,000 to create a collection endowment and support
the library's renovation," said Library Director Linda Watson. "We are
thrilled to use the Baird's latest gift to celebrate  their passion for
history.  Few medical institutions have an endowed curator position for
their historical collections.  This gift places U.Va. in a rare and
privileged position."

Alvin Baird, a retired cattle farmer, attended U.Va. and the University of
Maryland, then served in the Pacific during World War II and became active
in the VFW, American Legion, Fauquier County Historical Society and the
Virginia Historical Society.  Nancy Baird received a B.S. from Madison
College with graduate work at The George Washington University.  She worked
in the Office of the Naval Architect at the Norfolk Navy Yard, the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical
Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and has
published several volumes of genealogical research.
	
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July 2, 1999

Joan Echtenkamp Klein
Assistant Director for Historical Collections and Services and
Assistant Professor for Medical Education
Health Sciences Library
#234, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
Charlottesville, VA  22908
(804) 924-0052; Fax (804) 924-0379; E-mail jre@virginia.edu
http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/

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