Lepore, Paul, PhD; Johnson, Herman, PhD; and Easterday, Dick, PhD. Paul Lepore, PhD 1963. Comment from his son who emailed on 2015-03-23: Dr. Lepore stated that the "hard part about the work they are doing in the picture is calculating the area…
1968 Homecoming Queen and Court. Photo from 1969 Bugle, p. 81. Left to rt: Jackie Dandridge, Gloria LaGarde, Mary Lynn Hawkins, Nancy Abt (Queen), Heather Cheshire, Patricia McFarland, Courtney Draper.
Essex Finney and his mother Etta B. Finney. Essex Finney and his mother Etta B. Finney at the Powhatan County Fair in the 1940s. Essex Finney was one of the first Black students at Virginia Tech.
One room school attended by Essex Finney . Photograph of Pine Hill Elementary School in Macon, Georgia where Essex Finney attended school. His grandmother, Fannie Finney, taught there until 1947; then her daughter, Novella Finney Ambrose (shown at…
Essex Finney on his grandfather's farm. Essex grew up on his grandfather's farm in Macon, Virginia. He is shown here in 1953 with his prized Hereford bull which he exhibited at the Powhatan County Fair. Essex Finney was one of the first Black…
Edward G. Fenwick and Gail McMillan review Fenwick website. Newman Library: Gail McMillan, Director of Digital Library and Archives/Special Collections. Visit by donors, Edward G. Fenwick and Dorthea V. Fenwick, of Fenwick manuscript on July 18,…
Alonzo Freeman, owner of a dry cleaning business in Blacksburg, Virginia. Mr. Freeman's son, Alonzo Freeman, Jr., was the principal of the elementary school for "colored" children in Blacksburg, Virginia. See Virginia Tech Black History Timeline -…
Brig. General Frank Jennings Parish, USAFR (Retired). Born 1923, died August 5, 2008. Attended Virgina Tech and at the outbreak of World War II, he volunteered for service in the Army Air Corps. He served 42 years as a command pilot in the U. s. Air…