RESOLUTION
                         OF THE
                 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
                   BOARD OF TRUSTEES


    WHEREAS, many of the world's recognized art treasures are
included in the private collections of Dr. Armand Hammer, and

    WHEREAS, some of the most venerated of these works are
numbered among his "Five Centuries of Masterpieces" collection, and

    WHEREAS, Dr. Hammer in 1981 graciously authorized an eight-week
exhibition of this priceless collection at the University of Kentucky
Art Museum, its first showing ever on a university campus, and

    WHEREAS, this landmark exhibition was viewed by more then one
hundred thousand persons from throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
and was widely heralded as one of this area's foremost cultural events
of recent times, and

    WHEREAS, Dr. Hammer attended the formal opening of this exhibition
and generously pledged a personal gift of $50,000 to the Acquisitions
Fund of the University Art Museum, now therefore

    BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of the University of
Kentucky expresses its profound appreciation for the kindness and
generosity of Dr. Hammer, and further pledges its best efforts toward
the maintenance of a supportive atmosphere in which the University
Museum will continue to grow in stature as a cultural asset worthy
of the standards exemplified by Dr. Hammer.