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Jeanette Lancaster gets her ‘Way’

by Hawes Spencer
published 9:04pm Friday Jun 13, 2008
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Jeanette Lancaster, beloved retiring UVA nursing dean, gets a rare commemoration: her name’s getting affixed to a street. A little stretch of 15th Street will soon be Jeanette Lancaster Way. And lest we conclude that this furthers Charlottesville’s bizarre practice of letting one continuous street hold multiple names (think: Park/Rio or Ivy/University/Main), this one actually undoes some confusion. That’s because this bit of 15th is flanked not by 14th and 16th (as one might expect) but by Monroe Lane and Park Place. The street runs between McLeod Hall, the nursing school’s current home, and the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building, new space for the highly-ranked program that will be dedicated September 5. This is in the UVA medical district, formerly known as western Fifeville, before nearly all the houses fell to the wrecking ball during the 1980s and 1990s. The renaming was quietly approved by the City in April and announced today by the University’s Board of Visitors. President Casteen, faculty, and staff gave Lancaster a party at Carr’s Hill on May 30.

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