The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce awarded UVA President John Casteen the 2009 Paul G. McIntire Citizenship Award last night at its annual dinner. He was there to address the group.
Casteen’s speech centered on the need to enhance local entrepreneurship and combine it with academic resources available at UVA. Casteen, who will retire from his role at the university after 20 years next August, said he believes Charlottesville could become the epicenter of environmental and entrepreneurial progress.
“It’s time now to begin putting the pieces together,” he told an audience of about 400 at Boar’s Head Inn. “It is time for another American renaissance.”
Past recepient of the award include Leonard Sandridge (2003), Nancy O’Brien (1993) and Francis Fife (1985).