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Peggy Johnson Lavery Obituary
Obituary of Peggy Johnson Lavery, wife of William Lavery, president of Virginia Tech, 1975-1987.
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…
Louise Jacobs page from 1925 TheTin Horn
Women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after they were first admitted, theyproducedtheir own yearbook, called The Tin Horn. Four issues of the The Tin Horn were published. The…
Lucy Lee Lancaster page from 1925 The Tin Horn
Women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years after they were first admitted, theyproduced their own yearbook, calledThe Tin Horn. Four issues of theThe Tin Hornwere published. The 1925…
Carrie Sibold page from the 1925The Tin Horn
Women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years after they were first admitted, theyproduced their own yearbook, calledThe Tin Horn. Four issues of theThe Tin Hornwere published. The 1925…
Ruth Terrett page from the 1925 The Tin Horn
Women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute 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 published. The…
"Against the Odds: Women at VPI" speech
This is the text of a Founder's Day talk by Laura Jane Harper, April 11, 1980.
"Where Have Women Come from at VPI and Where Are
They Going?" speech
This is the text of remarks by Laura Jane Harper from 1985 on women at VPI.
The Bugle, 1941
This is a pdf of The Bugle, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University yearbook from 1941. This is the first year that women students appear in the university's yearbook.