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- Collection: Selections from the Historical Photograph Collection at Special Collections
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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.
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 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 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…
