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Casteen to be UVA’s commencement speaker

by Hawes Spencer
published 12:33pm Friday Mar 19, 2010
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casteen-press2 John Casteen’s two decades in the presidency of UVA have been honored with an invitation to serve as the 2010 Commencement speaker. According to a release, the speakers committee usually forwards a list of ten prospective speakers, but this year, they forwarded only Casteen’s name. Last June, the man trained as a scholar of medieval literature announced that he would retire after 20 years at the helm. In January, successor Teresa Sullivan was named.

3 comments

  • crozetite March 19th, 2010 | 2:28 pm

    Will he be giving out free “Smokes” to everyone as a last jab?

  • Yorke March 19th, 2010 | 6:31 pm

    Casteen’s real legacy at UVA:

    http://www.uvavictimsofrape.com/

    http://uvalies.org/

    http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2010/03/19/parents-say-murderer-broke-shattered-harrington%E2%80%99s-bones/#comment-5393

    (see comments)

  • Harry March 21st, 2010 | 6:54 am

    Sounds like he might have fixed the “balloting”. Will he recieve extra renumeration for this is will the prospect of a “double dipping” future be enough……

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