
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 7, 1993                   TAG: 9306070038
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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HEAD OF LAW SCHOOL AT W&L TO STEP DOWN

Randall P. Bezanson, dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law since 1988, has announced his intention to step down effective July 1, 1994.

Bezanson will retain his faculty rank as a full tenured professor at W&L.

The law school has gone through a number of changes in the past five years, Bezanson said in a W&L news release.

And the law school endowment campaign, coupled with significant growth in the annual fund, has laid the groundwork for a secure future for the law school.

"For these reasons, I believe this will be an opportune moment for change," he said. "A new dean with a renewed faculty consensus and renewed energy can provide the leadership needed for further change at the law school."

W&L President John D. Wilson said he will meet with faculty to set out procedures for the search for Bezanson's successor as soon as possible.

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