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- Collection: Selections from the Historical Photograph Collection at Special Collections
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First five women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
This is a photograph of the first five full-time women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (left to right): Mary Ella Carr Brumfield, Ruth Terrett, Lucy Lee Lancaster, Louise Jacobs, Carrie Taylor Sibold. An additional seven women enrolled…
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 VPI from the 1920s
These photos offer a glimpse of what campus looked like in the first years that women students were admitted.