Selections from the Biographical Vertical Files (VerticalFile-004)

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Title

Selections from the Biographical Vertical Files (VerticalFile-004)

Subject

Alumni--Women
Faculty--Women
First women students
International students
Organizations--Women
Staff--Women
Student life/organizations

Description

In general, vertical files at Special Collections include newspaper clippings, photocopies, ephemera, unpublished and/or informal publications, and other papers relating to a specific subject area. Files in this collection relate to individuals and families connected to the local area (Blacksburg, Montgomery County, and Southwest Virginia) and/or to Virginia Tech and its history.

Selected folders haven been digitized for inclusion in the History of Women at Virginia Tech project.

Rights

Since many items in these files are newspaper articles, Virginia Tech may not have rights to individual clippings or items.

This Rights Statement should be used for Items for which the copyright status is unknown and for which the organization that intends to make the Item available has not undertaken an effort to determine the copyright status of the underlying Work. https://rightsstatements.org/page/CNE/1.0/?language=en

Language

English
Spanish

Collection Items

Clippings about Mary Virginia Jones Berry, one of the first women to graduate from the Mechanical Engineering program at Virginia Tech
This item includes four newspaper clippings or articles written about Mary Virginia Jones Berry. Two are from the vertical files in Special Collections and two are from the Virginia Tech website. Viewing individual items will provide additional…

Carmen Venegas clipping files and photographs
Carmen Venegas of Costa Rica was one of the first international Latina/Hispanic women students to graduate from Virginia Tech, with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1938. She was a founding member of the Short Wave Club, which invested in a school…

Articles from the Montgomery News Messenger, Virginia Tech Centennial Edition, 1972, about women's activities on campus.
These articles are from the Montgomery News Messenger, Virginia Tech Centennial Edition, published in 1972. They cover the formation of the faculty women's club, the women's drill team, the 1944 consolidated of Radford and Virginia Tech, and the 1971…
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  • Selections from the Biographical Vertical Files (VerticalFile-004)