Commencement Exercises collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

The collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Commencement Exercises Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
4.51 Linear Feet
Creator:
College of William and Mary. University Archives.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Commencement Exercises Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes programs, scripts, remarks, addresses, speeches, invitations, and other related material from commencement exercises at the College of William and Mary. Events and ceremonies related to graduation would also include the baccalaureate service and other events.

(includes Robert M. Hughes address

includes Samuel Black McCormick address

includes Clarence Winthrop Bowen address

includes Clarence Hudson's address

includes Lyon G. Tyler's farewell address

includes Gilbert H. Grosvenor's address

(includes James Southall Wilson's speech

(includes William O. Douglas address

includes John Lesslie Hall, Jr. address

(includes General Carlos P. Romulo's address

(includes J. Lindsay Almond, Jr.'s address

(includes Baccalaureate Sermon of Rev. Vernon B. Richardson

includes Rt. Rev. Frederick J. Warneke's sermon and Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.'s address

includes Rev. Frederick Brown Harris sermon and C. Vann Woodward's address)

includes Rev. Ernest Gordon's sermon and A. Willis Robertson's address

(includes Rev. Peyton Randolph William's sermon and Henry Hamill Fowler's address

includes Rev. Dr. Robert E. Cushman's sermon and Robert D. Calkins' address

includes letter from Lyndon B. Johnson to graduates (stamped signature)

Includes remarks by Warren E. Burger.

includes Walter Muir Whitehill's address

includes Kingman Brewster, Jr.'s address

includes Barbara Jordan's address

includes Art Buchwald's address

includes William F. Buckley, Jr.'s address

includes Gary Trudeau's address

includes Commodore Grace Murray Hopper's address and remarks of George Healy

includes Baccalaureate address from William Sloane Coffin and Jeane Duane Jordan Kirkpatrick's address

includes addresses by Arthur J. Goldberg and Roger Mudd

includes Lt. Gen. Colin L. Powell's address

includes Glenn Close's address

includes Hanna Holborn Gray's address

includes remarks by M. Schiavelli

includes George F. Will's address

Includes remarks by President George H. W. Bush.

2000 includes James D. Finn address and General Brent Scowcroft speech

includes Madeleine K. Albright address

includes John Lewis remarks and Queen Noor of Jordan's address

includes Jon Stewart's address

includes address by Robert M. Gates

Acquisition information:
Acc. 1933.25 received 5/3/1933. For further information please contact Special Collections Research Center staff.
Custodial history:

Portions of this collection were previously in the Publications Collection.

Arrangement:

Chronological.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard