E R A D S H E I L P S P C I H H O S L N A E R Z S I H T I I P C Jefferson Scholars Foundation 2016 ANNUAL REPORT 4INTRODUCTION 04 | MISSION 06 | LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN 10 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS 12 | OUR REACH 14 | DEVELOPMENT 24 | FINANCE CONTENTS 26FACULTY RECRUITMENT AND RECOGNITION PAGE 2 30UNDERGRADUATE 92ENRICHMENT SCHOLARS PROGRAM 32 | SCHOLARS CLASS OF 2016 50 | SCHOLARS CLASS OF 2017 55 | SCHOLARS CLASS OF 2018 60 | SCHOLARS CLASS OF 2019 65 | INCOMING SCHOLARS CLASS OF 2020 72GRADUATE FELLOWS 102APPENDIX PROGRAM 74 | GRADUATE FELLOWS DEPARTING THE PROGRAM 79 | GRADUATE FELLOWS IN RESIDENCE PAGE 3 OUR MISSION E R A D S H E I L P S P C I H H O S L N A E R Z S I H T I I P C THE MISSION OF THE JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION IS TO SERVE THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BY IDENTIFYING, ATTRACTING, AND NURTURING INDIVIDUALS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTELLECTUAL RANGE AND DEPTH WHO POSSESS THE HIGHEST CONCOMITANT QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CITIZENSHIP. PAGE 5 E R A D S H E I L P S P C I H H O S L N A E R Z S I H T I I P C PAGE 6 C. MARK PIRRUNG Chairman HHELPING THE UNIVERSITY ATTRACT some of the world’s most exceptionally talented individuals to Grounds is the sole mission of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation. The Foundation’s aspirations are nothing less than those of the institution’s founder—to make the University “the future bulwark of the human mind.” Achieving these aspirations has always demanded that the Foundation constantly reach beyond its current grasp, expand its horizons, and strive to create new ways to help the University become the bulwark that Mr. Jefferson envisioned. This annual report will provide a few examples of how the Foundation’s pioneering efforts to expand its annual competition to a wider geographic footprint and to new academic disciplines have dramatically increased the University’s presence and influence. JAMES H. WRIGHT President It will also chronicle a year of remarkable achievement by those students who came to the University as Jefferson Scholars and Fellows. The 2015-16 year was exceptional. The 32nd class of Jefferson Scholars commenced from the University in May. In the class were the chair and two vice chairs of the Honor Committee, the chair and two senior support officers of the Judiciary Committee, a Rhodes Scholar, a Schwarzman Scholar, and a Fulbright Scholar. Nine members of the class lived on the Lawn. The class’s cumulative GPA was 3.821. The 10th class of Jefferson Fellows also concluded its tenure with the Foundation in May. Their record of publication in academic PAGE 7 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN journals, presentation at scholarly conferences, The Foundation’s aspirations are overseen and the recognition they received for teaching by a devoted and exceptionally talented Board of excellence are extremely impressive. Equally Directors. Its success is largely due to the Board impressive is their devotion to intellectual enterprise members’ selfless dedication to the Foundation’s and their eagerness to share their knowledge with a mission and their insistence that the Foundation wide audience. always seek new and more effective ways to The record made by the class of 2016 will be benefit the University. In August, Tiff Armstrong built upon by those Scholars returning to Grounds. of Richmond, Virginia, will join the Board, which Among the returning Scholars are individuals unusually saw no turnover this year. We look forward who have been or are Student Council President, to his active participation. president of the Asian Student Union, president Each year the Foundation seems to suffer the of Alternative Spring Break, president of the Black loss of loyal friends and benefactors. On April 24 Student Alliance, and a vice chair and senior support we were deeply saddened by the death of Professor officer of the Honor Committee. Robert Dolan. Bob was among the Foundation’s Future contributions to the University have staunchest faculty advocates. He served for many been assured by the successful conclusion of the years on our final selection committee, and he undergraduate and graduate selection processes and his wife, Brenda, created a Jefferson this spring. Thirty-four Jefferson Scholars from Scholarship that has helped, and will continue to twenty different states and two foreign countries will help, attract outstanding students to the University. be enrolling in the fall. Twenty-two Jefferson Fellows In May, we lost Paul Barringer, a generous benefactor will also join our community, including the largest of both the undergraduate and graduate programs. class of Darden Fellowship recipients in our history. The Foundation will miss both Bob and Paul, In the past year, the Foundation’s third and will always be grateful for their commitment programmatic initiative, the Jefferson Scholars and support. Foundation Chaired Professorship Program, Mr. Jefferson was, at his core, an idealist. launched its inaugural search for an outstanding He thought progress was boundless, yet also new faculty member. The College of Arts & Sciences dependent upon an educated populace. He was conducted the search, and as this letter goes to also a realist who understood that progress required publication, an exceptionally talented scholar has aspirations and a refusal to be satisfied with things been identified and is being aggressively recruited. as they are. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation We hope to introduce this individual to the wider strives to attract individuals whose talents and drive community in the coming year. will help ensure not only the University’s continued The accomplishments of Jefferson Scholarship eminence but also the world’s progress. To all who and Fellowship recipients and the positive impact support the Foundation and share in its aspirations, they have made on the entire University community we are forever grateful. would not be possible if the Foundation were not the fortunate steward of an endowment provided by many generous benefactors that now has a C. MARK PIRRUNG value of $366.6 million. In a challenging investment Chairman environment, the Foundation’s portfolio saw a negative 1.3% return, and we received new commitments totaling $14.1 million. JAMES H. WRIGHT President PAGE 8 WILLIAM FOWNES BLUE BOARD ROOM DEDICATION NOVEMBER 15, 2015 current president, in 1984. On November 15, 2015, Bill’s family honored him by naming the William Fownes Blue Board Room at the Foundation. Seventeen of his family members, many of whom also attended the University, gathered together to unveil a commissioned portrait of Bill that will remain on prominent display in the Blue Board Room. All four of Bill’s children attended U.Va.: sons William F. Blue Jr. (Col ’81, Dar ’86), J. Tyler Blue THE HISTORY OF THE JEFFERSON SCHOLARS (Col ’83), and Robert G. Blue (Col ’85, Law ’89), as TFoundation cannot be told without mention of well as his daughter Katherine M. Blue the name Bill Blue. A graduate of the Commerce (Col ’89) (pictured above). Additionally, two of his School in 1956 and the Law School in 1960, Bill grandchildren have attended, Nancy S. Blue was active in the Maryland alumni chapter in (Col ’10) and John Tyler Blue Jr. (Col ’14). Baltimore in the 1970s and was determined to The Jefferson Scholars Foundation is deeply get the chapter to devote itself to supporting a indebted to Bill not only for his exceptional substantial and worthy cause at the University. leadership and foresight but also for his years That cause was a merit scholarship for Maryland of service and support. The Foundation extends students that would eventually become the its gratitude to the entire Blue family for Jefferson Scholars Program at U.Va. His efforts continuing in Bill’s footsteps and supporting the also led to hiring Jimmy Wright, the Foundation’s Foundation’s mission. PAGE 9 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2015-2016 C. Mark Pirrung (Col ‘73) Sarah A. Hamlin (Col ‘89) Gregory A. McCrickard (Col ‘81) CHAIRMAN Dallas, Texas Managing Director Chief Executive Officer T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. Atlanta Beverage Company Maryanne Quinn Hancock Baltimore, Maryland Atlanta, Georgia (Col ‘96, Grad ‘96) Director Tracy V. McMillan (Com ‘86) Timothy J. Ingrassia (Col ‘86) McKinsey and Company Managing Principal VICE CHAIRMAN Atlanta, Georgia HCGA Consulting Partners Partner and Co-Chairman of Fairfield, Connecticut Global Mergers and Acquisitions Marilyn Bartlett Hebenstreit Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Vice Chairman Michael A. Pausic (Engr ‘86) New York, New York Bartlett & Co. Partner Mission Hills, Kansas Foxhaven Asset Management Clifford W. Bogue (Col ‘81, Charlottesville, Virginia Med ‘85) Landon Hilliard III (Col ‘62) Professor of Pediatrics Limited Partner Mark A. Victor Pinho (Com ‘99) (Critical Care) Brown Brothers Harriman & Managing Director Yale School of Medicine, Company of Private Equity Yale University New York, New York Soros Fund Charitable Foundation Guilford, Connecticut New York, New York Deborah R. Hirtle Shelley L. Boyce (Nurs ‘83) Hirtle Callaghan & Co. William L. Polk Jr. (Col ‘78) Chief Executive Officer Saint Davids, Pennsylvania Managing Partner MedRisk Inc. Egis Capital Partners King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Robin Robinson Howell (Col ‘86) St. Louis, Missouri Atlanta, Georgia Frank M. Conner III (Col ‘78) Crisler B. Quick (Com ‘77) Partner Thomas V. Inglesby (GSBA ‘84, President Covington & Burling LLP Law ‘86) The Finance Department Washington, D.C. Managing Director Mill Neck, New York Saratoga Partners Stephen S. Crawford (Col ‘86) New York, New York Coolidge E. Rhodes Jr. (Col ‘97) Chief Financial Officer Vice President - Legal Capital One Financial Richard C. Kellogg Jr. (Col ‘74) Baker Hughes Incorporated Corporation Chair Houston, Texas New York, New York Basic Management Inc.