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This collection contains black and white as well as color prints, negatives, and slides of photographs collected by the William & Mary Alumni Association for various events on the William & Mary campus. The bulk of the photographs concern events related to Homecoming including the parade, class reunions, and the Sunset Ceremony. The collection also contains photographs of Commencement, athletic events, photographs produced for the Alumni Gazette and other publicaitons, as well as the retirement ceremony for former president Davis Y. Paschall.

The collection includes photographs and artifacts created for use in the College of William and Mary yearbook, the Colonial Echo. Note that many yearbook photographs may be part of the University Archives Photograph Collection due to the various copies made over time and the irregular accessioning of these photographs.

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.

This collection includes correspondence, remarks at events such as commencements and award dinners by Professor David Holmes, material related to the Bishop James Madison Society, a draft of a paper related to the 1970s-early 1980s stadium expansion controversy at William and Mary, and projects by students of College of William and Mary Professor David Holmes. Acc. 2011.370: Contains on-site research papers and a videocassette concerning the colonial countryside and Victorian towns and cities completed by students for several courses taught by Professor Holmes. Most of the papers deal with Virginia, but some of the papers also include Maryland, North Carolina, and historic cities such as Philadelphia and Charleston. The videocassette tape is for a project done by a student related to Essex County, Virginia. Also included is an edited manuscript for Dr. Holmes' book "The Faiths of the Founding Fathers," published in 2006.

Papers of the William George and Gladys Bennett Guy family of Williamsburg, Virginia with additions from Joan Eastman Bennett. Includes correspondence, invitations, minutes, clippings, oral histories, notebooks, reports, photographs, written memories, essays and printed materials. Papers include items about water and gas, Williamsburg Landing, American Red Cross, Williamsburg United Service Organization, Williamsburg Female Academy, College of William and Mary and zoning regulations. Includes ephemera of Williamsburg, Virginia and personal material and correspondence of the Bennett Family and Guy Family of Williamsburg, Virginia. The original accession was received in 1985 with additions added through 2011.

The Office of the President W. Taylor Reveley III records includes e-mail correspondence, letters, cards, subject files, speeches and other papers from the administration of William & Mary's twenty-seventh president, W. Taylor Reveley, III.

The collection is comprised of the personal papers of William & Mary alumnus of 1940, Virginia Forwood Pate. The materials in the collection relate to Pate's active involvement with class of 1940 alumni activities, mainly the Society of the Alumni, the class of 1940 fiftieth reunion, the class of 1940 merit scholarship. Also included in the collection is general correspondence, issues of the Parcel Print, newsclippings related to William & Mary, and a vinyl record recording of a 1959 performance by the William & Mary Choir.