Collections : [College of William and Mary]

The collection contains photographs documenting William & Mary alumni, Aiden Curran with friends during the May 2024 graduation season. Photographs include images of members from Sigma Pi and documents a sunken garden party.

A collection of documents, ephemera, and correspondence related to Bobak Kasrai's experience as a member of the Kappa Pi Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Letter written by William & Mary student, Charles L. Hepburn, to his grandfather, Charles Leven Powell, dated January 21, 1894. Hepburn discusses the reorganization of the Virginia Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He states the fraternity was reorganized in December 1893 by "several old members who had been taken in here before the war." Later in the letter, he mentions a couple of those members, including Benjamin Ewell and Colonel William Lamb. He says that all faculty were admitted as well a Charley Coleman "the poet." Hepburn discusses the character of the chapter, calling it a "post-graduate society" and notes that Harvard and other northern colleges only take in a small number of their brightest graduates. He believes Ewell and Lamb intended for William & Mary's chapter to be on the same footing. Hepburn also discusses the Nu Chapter of Kappa Sigma. He states there are 13 members and mentions there are two other "frats" at William & Mary and of those, only Kappa Alpha is "any good." It has 10 members. The other fraternity is Phi Theta Psi, which he describes as very small and whose chapter "killed itself by taking in bad men on the start." There are only two members who are "very poor and who cannot get anyone else to join them." Hepburn continues discussing fraternities, both at a local and national level. Notes that he's distinguished among others because of Powell's acceptance into PBK in 1823. He then switches to more personal content, specific to his grandfather's new housing and acknowledges that William & Mary "just enjoyed a holiday on account of the Great Lee's birth." He mentions that a committee from the state legislature came to visit. He describes the visit, how the students acted, and how they all hope to get a big appropriation from the state finance committee. Hepburn ends the letter with love to his family.

Collection consists of scrapbooks, yearbooks, and other documents related to the Nu Rho chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a national co-educational service fraternity founded in 1925. Scrapbooks date from 1975 to 2019. Yearbooks are from 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. Other material includes a framed charter from the chapter's founding in 1961, a service award certificate from 2011, and a trifold poster.

The records contain photographs of members of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity Nu Sigma Chapter at William & Mary. Photographs primarily document members of the fraternity.

This collection consists of a black hooded sweatshirt worn by William & Mary alumnus Randall Johnson on October 16, 1992 during the Black Student Organization's Black Greek Step Show, and a scanned photograph of Johnson and other Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Kappa Pi Chapter) members at the same event. The sweatshirt is embroidered on the front, left side with black Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. letters with old gold stitching. The photograph depicts the following individuals in the front row kneeling, left to right: Michael Spicely, Andrew Zawacki, Dave Scott, Greg Mercer, and Roger Lawyer. Members pictured in the back row standing, left to right, are: Fred Jones, Patrick Mamou, Thomas Roberts, Walter Preston, and Randall Johnson.

The photograph collection of College of William & Mary alumnus William C. Kepner includes photographic images predominantly from 1946-1950. The collection also includes 35mm color slides from William & Mary's 1975 Homecoming festivities. The inventory of the collection provided by the donor: 1 box 300+ b&w negatives (2.25x3.25); 1 box 100+ b&w negatives (4x5); 1 negative album of 100+ negatives (2.25x3.25); approximately 200 b&w slides (made from the above); 200+ 8x10 prints (from Colonial Echo and Flat Hat); 10 sets of b&w album prints; 4 envelopes of miscellaneous 5x7 prints; 1 envelope of Kodacolor negatives, and 1 print; 1 envelope of 2 5x7 & 2 4x6 prints from 828 Koda; 1 box of 35mm color slides from the 1975 Homecoming; playbills from theater productions; 2 slide carousels of 120+ slides in b&w SQ format; and 1 film of the Backdrop Club intro from 1948 as well as a DVD copy of the film.

Collection contains composite photographs and documents related to the Keplar Society, which became the Zeta Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Chi at William & Mary. The donor, Douglas Jacobson, was a member of both groups. Included is the petition sent to Sigma Chi to request to become an official chapter.