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  • Subject is exactly "Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College"
barracks4_Dec1932.jpg

This photograph features "Pip" Cox (standing), Class of 1934, and "Dud" Shelhorse (reclining).
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Members of the V.P.I. board of visitors, which met yesterday in a called session to draw up resolutions in an effort to correct certain conditions at…
BoVWomen_1944.pdf

This is the text from a June 21, 1944, Radford News Journal article the merger with Radford and moving women students to the Radford campus. This pdf…
CollegeMerger_1944.pdf

This is the text from a 1944 Roanoke Times article on the merger with Radford and the housing issues for women. This pdf document was created from an…
bov_Davis_WomenOnBoard_1944.pdf

Newspaper article, "Women on College Board Full-Fledged Members: Attend First Meeting with Group Consistently Male for 72 years," by Virginia Waller…
bov_Davis_FourWomen_1944.pdf

Newspaper article, "Four Women on Boards of Leading Virginia Colleges: Two Will Serve at University of Virginia and Two at Virginia Tech," by Virginia…
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The Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute who on Tuesday, June 27, assumed the administrative control of the Radford College which…
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The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors met at Blacksburg yesterday for its annual meeting. Shown (left to right, front row): Mrs. H. H. Walton,…
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Photograph of T. Marshall Hahn, Jr., with a pdf of his inaugural address given in 1963. The address was captured from the original 125th anniversary…
Loeffler_MoreWomen_1964.pdf

This is the text of a 1964 article for the Roanoke Times by Fred Loeffler about the rise in enrollment of women students and the development of more…
Lancaster_FirstTechCoed_1969.pdf

This is the text of an article by Lucy Lee Lancaster for the Centennial Edition of the New Messenger (December 31, 1969) about the admission of women…
LivingHistory_AlumniReminisce_1970.pdf

This article for the Autumn 1970 issue of Context includes two short memoirs, one from W. P. Tams, Jr. (Class of 1902), and J. Ambler Johnston (Class…
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Photograph of students at the cenotaph, 1972.
bov_Members_1872-1972.pdf

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…
bov_Robertson_1972.pdf

Board of Visitors, description and list of rectors, compiled by Jenkins Mikell Robertson, and originally published in the Historical Data Book:…
Hutchinson_VPIRecollections_1973.pdf

This memoir was written by Class of 1909 graduate, Henry H. Hutchinson in 1973 for a university publication and later added to the website for the…
McCorkle_Letter_1973.pdf

This letter to the editor of the Virginia Tech magazine, Context, was written by C. Ross McCorkle, in response to two memoirs published in 1970 (see…
NewDorm_CT_1977.pdf

This is the text of a 1977 Collegiate Times article about the naming of Harper Hall. This pdf document was created from an existing webpage from the…
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Front row ( left to right): James F. Tucker, W. E. Lavery, Parke C. Binkley (rector), Margie W. Thomas (secretary), Charles W. Rector. Back row (left…
Harper_AgainstAllOdds_1980.pdf

This is the text of a speech about the history of women on campus, given by Laura Jane Harper at the Founder's Day celebration in 1980. Harper was the…
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Seated (left to right): Mary Fray, Rhea F. Moore, Jr., William E. Lavery (President), Alexander F. Giacco (Rector), Thomas B. Long, Jr., G. Truman…
Harper_WhereHaveWomenComeFrom_1985.pdf

This is the text of a speech about the history of women at Virginia Tech given by Laura Jane Harper for the Women's Network in 1985. This pdf document…
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Seated (left to right): Mary Virginia Jones, Robert B. Claytor, W.S. "Pete" White, Jr. (Rector), William E. Lavery (President), Mary Fray. Standing…
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Monument to William Addison Caldwell, first student admitted to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, who graduated from VAMC in 1876.
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William Addison Caldwell was the first student admitted to VAMC, 1873.

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William Addison Caldwell was the first student admitted to VAMC in 1873.

Cox_CaldwellEssay_1992.pdf

This essay was originally written by Clara B. Cox in 1991 and later revised in 1992. It tells the story of the first student to enroll at Virginia…
Dean_AffirmativeAction_1995.pdf

This text is an article for a university publication on the history of affirmative action on campus, written in 1995. This pdf document was created…
Shuler_Ode_1995.pdf

This memoir was written by Carroll M. Shuler (Class of 1928), around the time of his 92nd birthday and detail his time at the university in the…
Wallenstein_FirstBlackStudents_1997.pdf

This is the text of an article for Diversity News in 1997 on the first black students at Virginia Tech. This pdf document was created from an existing…
Carlton_ConfederatesCollegium_2000.pdf

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…
bov_1997-1998.jpg

Front Row: Rodman Layman, Susan Phillips Bari, Joseph Jenkins (Vice Rector), James Turner (Rector), Paul Torgersen (President), Donald Huffman, Noel…
bov_1998-1999.jpg

Front row (left to right): Cecil R. Maxson, Jr.; T. Rodman Layman; Susan Phillips Bari; Joseph R. Jenkins - Vice Rector; James E. Turner, Jr. -…
bov_1999-2000.jpg

Back Row: Noel C. Taylor, Micheal G. Miller, Ritchard K. Bambach, Bennie J. Etheridge. Middle Row: Donald R. Johnson, John G Rocovich, Jr., W. Heywood…
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Back Row: Jacob A. Lutz III, Bennie J. Etheridge, Donald R. Johnson, Donald W. Huffman, Willaiam C. Latham, John G Rocovich, Jr. Middle Row: Sarah…
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Front Row: Beverly H. Sgro, James E. Turner, Charles W. Steger - President, Thomas D. Rust*. Middle Row: Mitchell O. Carr, Joseph Wampler, Jacob A.…
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Front Row (left to right): Beverly Sgro, William C. Latham - Vice Rector, Charles W. Steger - President, John C. Rocovich, Jr. - Rector, Donald R.…
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Front Row (left to right): Sandra Stiner Lowe, Ben J. Davenport, Jr. - Vice Rector, Charles W. Steger, John G. Rocovich, Jr. - Rector, Diane L. Zahm -…
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