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DATE: Friday, January 31, 1997 TAG: 9701310080
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO NEWS OBIT
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE
SOURCE: Associated Press
Joseph N. Bosserman, a former dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, has died at age 71.
Bosserman died of a heart attack Monday while traveling in Europe, the university announced. He was found dead on a train that had just reached Le Mans, France, following a trip through the Channel Tunnel from England.
``The only way he would have been happier is if he had been on the Orient Express,'' said his sister, Bette Hughes of Harrisonburg. She said her brother loved to travel and visited Europe once or twice every year.
Bosserman served as dean of the architecture school from 1967 to 1981.
He was born in Harrisonburg in 1925, received his bachelor's degree in architecture from UVa in 1948 and a master's degree from Princeton in 1952. He joined the UVa faculty in 1954 and served as assistant dean of architecture for four years before becoming dean.
He retired from the architecture faculty in 1987 but remained in Charlottesville.
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