Ivey Foreman Lewis died on the sixteenth of March 1964 after forty-nine years of devotion to the University and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on the thirty-first of August 1882. His father, an alumnus of the University of Virginia, was a physician instrumental in establishing and later directing the Board of Health of the State of North Carolina. His mother was Cornelia Viola Battle, the first daughter of Kemp Plummer Battle who for many years was President of the University of North Carolina.