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Photograph of Jean Phillips, Human Nutrition and Foods professor

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Photograph of Margaret Minnis

Photograph of Marva Felder (VPI's first African-American Homecoming Queen) and William Billups

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Photograph of Mildred Tate, professor of Home Economics from 1937 through 1960

Photograph of women students with sheep

Photographs of "L" Squadron, the first women's squad of the Corps of Cadets

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…

Photographs of Peggy Mezaros, the first woman Senior Vice President and Provost at Virginia Tech

In 1995, Dr. Peggy S. Mezaros was appointed as the first woman Senior Vice President and Provost of Virginia Tech. She held this position until 2000. Meszaros first joined Virginia Tech in 1993 as professor of family and child development and dean of…

Photographs of Sandra Sullivan, Virginia Tech's first woman vice president

In 1982, Sandra Sullivan was named Vice President for Student Affairs, becoming the first woman to hold a university-wide executive position on the campus.

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.

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