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Board adopts resolutions commending outgoing chair and awarding honorary Patron of Letters to composer Damien Geter
Summary
The Executive Committee voted to confer the honorary Patron of Letters degree on composer Damien Geter and the full board adopted a resolution commending C. Paul Brockwell Jr. for his service; the full text of both resolutions is appended to the minutes.
The Executive Committee, acting under board bylaws, voted to award an honorary Patron of Letters degree to composer Damien Geter; the full resolution text describing Geter's biography and the rationale for the honor appears in the meeting addendum. The resolution cites Section 42.1‑3.1 of the Code of Virginia as the statutory authority for conferring honorary Patron of Letters degrees.
The board also adopted a resolution commending outgoing Chair C. Paul Brockwell Jr. for his service, listing his committee work, leadership roles and contributions to Library events and the hiring of the 10th Librarian of Virginia. Both resolutions were recorded in the minutes addendum (full texts appear on pages included in the meeting packet). The minutes show these items as adopted; no dissent or roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the transcript.
