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VT Stories Oral History with Ida Powell, May 17, 2018 (Ms2016-015)
Ida Powell graduated from Virginia Tech in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in home economics. In this hour-long interview, Powell discusses her experience as a female student attending Virginia Tech's campus in the 1950s as well as her humanitarian…
Photographs of Patricia Miller, c.1959
In 1959, Patricia Ann Miller was the first woman to receive a commission at VPI. Each semester, she enrolled in Corps classes, but was denied. She eventually applied for a commission from the Army Women's Medical Specialist Corps and was commissioned…
Photograph of Jean Harshburger and Representative William C. Wamper.
Jean Harshburger was the first women elected class president, by the class of 1974. In this photograph, Harshburger is pictured with then Representative William C. Wamper.
Photographs of VPI from the 1920s
These photos offer a glimpse of what campus looked like in the first years that women students were admitted.
"Cadets and Coeds Take Changes in Stride" and "Coed Growth" articles
Two articles from the December 1966 Techgram about coed life on campus.
The Tin Horn, 1931
Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years after they were first admitted, they produced their own yearbook, calledThe Tin Horn. Four issues of theThe Tin Hornwere…