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U.Va. Law School To Dedicate Bust Of Alumnus Robert F. Kennedy February 25, 2000 -- The University of Virginia School of Law will dedicate a bust of alumnus Robert F. Kennedy on Saturday, March 4. The dedication at 6:45 p.m. in Caplin Pavilion is part of a student-run conference on Public Service and the Law to encourage public-interest law careers among students. The ceremony is open to the public. The bust has been donated by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, widow of the former U.S. attorney general, senator and presidential candidate, has selected a quotation by Robert F. Kennedy that will be inscribed on the base of the bust. Members of the Kennedy family will attend the dedication. "We are honored to receive this memorial to one of our country's most distinguished public servants, and one of the law school's most eminent graduates. It is fitting that its dedication comes as a result of student initiatives, and during a conference on the law and public service," said law Dean Robert E. Scott. "We are grateful to the Kennedy family. Once permanently installed in the law school, it will serve as a fitting memorial to his life-long commitment to public service." Kennedy received his law degree from the U.Va. School of Law in 1951. He served as U.S. attorney general and as a key presidential adviser during the administration of his brother John F. Kennedy and played a major role in shaping the era’s important civil rights legislation. He served as U.S. senator from 1965 to 1968 and was assassinated that year while campaigning for the presidential nomination. The inscription accompanying the plaque will read: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy ’51, to the students at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966 Contact: Denise Forster, (804) 924-4678; Bob Brickhouse, (804) 924-6856 |
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