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      D.    Resolution

      Mr. Reed said that the Board was going to take a brief deviation from the Board's
agenda for an extraordinary occasion. He called on Rachel Watts, Student Government
Association President and Student Trustee, to read a Resolution.

      Ms. Watts read the following Resolution:

      WHEREAS, Jeffrey C. Graham graduated May 23rd, 2003, with a civil
      engineering degree from the University of Kentucky College of Engineering, and

      WHEREAS, during his career as a UK student, Mr. Graham distinguished himself
      as a student and was inducted into membership of the Civil Engineering Honor
      Society of Pi Epsilon, and

      WHEREAS, Mr. Graham received his engineering training certificate from the
      Kentucky Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors,
      and

      WHEREAS, Mr. Graham also was an outstanding member of the UK Reserve
      Officer Training Corps during his career as a student, rising to become a leader of
      UK's award winning Pershing Rifles Drill Team, and

      WHEREAS, Mr. Graham entered the United States Army upon his graduation
      from the University of Kentucky as a second lieutenant, tank platoon leader with
      the U.S. Army, First Battalion, 34th Armored, Fort Riley, Kansas State, First
      Infantry Division, and

      WHEREAS, Lt. Graham was assigned to combat duty in Iraq, where he served
      with distinction and pride, bringing great honor to himself, his family and friends,
      his country, his alma mater, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and

      WHEREAS, Lt. Graham, age 24, was killed February 1 9th, 2004 in action in Iraq,
      south of Baghdad, while he was heroically attempting to warn soldiers in his
      platoon of imminent harm from a roadside bomb he discovered while leading the
      platoon, and

      WHEREAS, Lt. Graham was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple
      Heart for his heroism in military action in which he served,

      NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the University of Kentucky Board
      of Trustees expresses its grief and extends its most heartfelt sympathy to the
      family of Second Lt. Jeffrey C. Graham, including his parents, Army Colonel
      Mark Graham and Carol Shroat Graham, who are attached to the U.S. Army base
      in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. To his sister, and my sister, Melanie Graham and his
      fiancee, Stacey Brook Martinez of Elizabethtown, and