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2000 SESSION
006753828WHEREAS, James M. Rowley, a farmer and innovative land conservationist, passed away on February 1, 2000, at his Middleburg home; and
WHEREAS, James Rowley's endeavors to preserve the Northern Virginia Piedmont area included a campaign to establish transferable development rights for landowners, an initiative thought by many land use experts to have been ahead of its time; and
WHEREAS, born in Greenville, Pennsylvania, in 1926, James Rowley attended Culver Military Academy and the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, and studied industrial engineering at Yale University, graduating in 1951; and
WHEREAS, James Rowley was the long-standing leader and director of the Piedmont Environmental Council, a lifetime member of the Catoctin Farmer's Club, director of the Loudoun Soil and Water Conservation District, founding director of the Goose Creek Association, and a former member of the board of directors of the Hill School of Middleburg, Virginia; and
WHEREAS, a self-taught architect, James Rowley built a succession of unique family homes that reflected his sensitivity to the natural and cultural history of the rural Virginia landscape; and
WHEREAS, James Rowley was a lifelong sailor who designed and built a 65-foot sailing catamaran in which he circumnavigated the globe with his family; and
WHEREAS, an avid skier, Jim Rowley logged more than one million vertical feet of descents from the rugged mountain peaks of the Canadian Rockies while helicopter skiing; and
WHEREAS, James Rowley was a vital, concerned, and thoughtful member of his community and was greatly loved by his wife of 48 years, Polly Pack Rowley, his son and daughter, and his two grandchildren; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly celebrate the life and many accomplishments of James Mathers Rowley and express its appreciation for his decades of work toward preserving rural Virginia farmland; and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Polly Pack Rowley as an expression of the esteem in which his memory is held.