Browse Items (5853 total)

A clipping from the 1999 Bugle of Lisa Witherspoon's player profile. Witherspoon was an inducted into Virginia Tech's Hall of Fame in 2009. She was a basketball player at Virginia Tech from 1995-1999.

A clipping from the 1982 Bugle featuring Ginny Lessman Stonick who was the first woman volleyball athlete inducted into Virginia Tech's Sports Hall of Fame.

A clipping from the 1919 Bugle showing various women sponsors at Virginia Tech.

A clipping from 1998 of Katie Ollendick who was an All-American athlete in Track and Field, specifically the High Jump. She was also inducted into the Virginia Tech's Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.

A clipping of the woman's swim team. They were officially sanctioned by the university in 1970.

A clipping from the 1925 Tin Horn. This is the first mention of a woman's basketball team at Virginia Tech. It was unsanctioned and unpopular with the majority male-dominated university.

Clippings from the 1930 Tin Horn concerning the women's basketball team

Clipping from 1990 Bugle

A clipping from the 1960 Bugle.

A clipping from the 1916 Bugle.

A clipping from the 1913 Bugle. The first time a woman was involved in a sports team at Virginia Tech.

Cosmopolitan Club page from the 1951 Bugle. The Cosmopolitan Club was a social group on campus for students from countries other than the United States of America.

Bertram Kinzey, Jr. arrived in Blacksburg as an architectural engineering student in 1940. While living in Richmond, Kinzey enrolled in the engineering extension program, which led him to Virginia Tech for his final two years of undergraduate. As a…

Theodore King, Jr. grew up on a farm in Lunenburg County, Virginia. While in high school, King was recruited by many colleges, including Virginia Tech. He was drawn to the school because of its appeal to common people, as he was a lower class African…

James "Bud" Robertson was born and raised in Danville, Virginia. There was a railroad close to his house, which led him to become interested in them (which he maintained throughout his entire life). The yardmaster understood his interest and offered…

James Boone, born July 25th, 1915 is among the earliest Virginia Polytechnic students to be interviewed for VT Stories. He grew up in Holland and Ivor, Virginia, and arrived in Blacksburg in 1933. While at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, he studied…

George Fox, born in Charleston, West Virginia, grew up in a Virginia Tech household. His father from Virginia Polytechnic Institute for industrial engineering in 1941 and claimed that their extended family has more than twenty graduates.…

Frank Nolen grew up in Macon County, North Carolina, raised with school in mind. In high school, he decided to attend North Carolina State College, but dropped out after encountering college chemistry. He transferred to Gaston Technical Institute, a…

Judy Swecker Slaughter was born into a Virginia Tech family as her father graduated class of 1935. Growing up in Woodstock, Virginia, she had decided to follow her father's footsteps and also attend. She arrived in 1966, studying psychology and…

Marguerite Laurette Harper Scott, also known as Chick, grew up in Norfolk, Virginia in a family of Virginia State graduates. Although she intended on doing the same, when Virginia Polytechnic recruiters visited her high school, her father decided it…

Jack Kise was born in New Haven, Connecticut and moved around several times before landing in Portsmouth, Virginia where he spent most of his school years. In high school, he took an interest in Virginia Tech as he had several friends attend and…

Campus view of VPI development plan, printed in 1927.

A book describing the history of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, including its formation as a land grant university and its proposed education model.