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Compiled list of rectors of the Board of Visitors from 1872 to 2017. The individual links to rector biographies were removed from the document in 2020 when the exhibit was migrated, and a link was added to current site for the Board of Visitors…

Photograph of Harry C. Wyatt, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1964-1970

Photograph of William E. Wine, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1948-1952

Photograph of James Hoge Tyler, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1887-1889

Photograph of Lee C. Tait, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1983-1984

Photograph of C. Eugene Rowe, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1970-1975

Photograph of Michael J. Quillen, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2012-2014

Photograph of Deborah L. Petrine, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2014-2016

Photograph of George Nolan, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2010-2012

Photograph of James E. Turner, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1997-2002

Photograph of John G. Rocovich, Jr., rector of the Board of Visitors, 2002-2004

Photograph of Lucius E. Johnson, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1910-1912

Photograph of Jacob A. Lutz, III, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2006-2008

Photograph of John R. Lawson, II, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2008-2010

Photograph of Guy L. Furr, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1956-1962

Photograph of Henry Dekker, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1996-1997

Photograph of Ben J. Davenport, Jr., rector of the Board of Visitors, 2004-2006

Photograph of Frank Clement, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1975-1978

Photograph of James L. Chapman, IV, rector of the Board of Visitors, 2016-2017

Photograph of J. Thompson Brown, rector of the Board of Visitors, 1900-1908 and 1912-1921

Photograph of Harvey Black, first rector of the Board of Visitors, 1872-1875

History of the members of the Board of Visitors with a link to the lists. The link in the pdf was updated in 2020 to current site for the Board of Visitors history and archives. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original…

Board of Visitors, description and list of rectors, compiled by Jenkins Mikell Robertson, and originally published in the Historical Data Book: Centennial Edition. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th…

Newspaper article, "Administrative Work at Tech Ordered Reorganized by Board: Visitors Create Committees to Deal with Pressing Problems," by Horace Hood, III. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the original 125th Anniversary…

Newspaper article, "Women on College Board Full-Fledged Members: Attend First Meeting with Group Consistently Male for 72 years," by Virginia Waller Davis, Roanoke Times, August 15, 1944. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from…

Newspaper article, "Four Women on Boards of Leading Virginia Colleges: Two Will Serve at University of Virginia and Two at Virginia Tech," by Virginia Waller Davis, Roanoke Times, August 16, 1944. This pdf document was created from an existing…

Photograph of the faculty of VAMC in 1878

This is the pdf of an essay, "Confederates in the Collegium: The Influence of J.E.B. Stuart's Leadership on the Development of Virginia Tech," by Patrick W. Carlton, that was available online. In addition, there is a picture of Patrick W. Carlton,…

John Lee Buchanan became president of VAMC on March 1, 1880. However, his tenure as president was very short. Montgomery County State Senator J. E. Eskridge initiated a movement in the General Assembly to have the affairs of VAMC investigated. The…

This photograph features J.N. Smith, Rogere, McClung, Wilson, Paxton, Anderson, Deacon, Locker. Gift of Mr. L. Goeller.

"No Prison Labor Beyond This Point," 1974

This photograph features "Pip" Cox (standing), Class of 1934, and "Dud" Shelhorse (reclining).

This photograph is of what was then Room 115. The photograph was a gift of Lon Savage.

Photograph of students waiting for the train, 1918.

Photograph of a "Rat Parade" (Freshman cadets in costume), 1918.