This record group contains materials created by the University Development office during the course of its regular business, including records about its management.
[Identification of item], Office of University Development Records (RG 20), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
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This packet contains information about the campus and prints of photographs.
Booklet contains a brochure and pledge card.
List of Development Office publications and several of those publications.
This file contains the preliminary and final versions
Certificate, 1968.
Brochure and program for the Eleventh Annual Banquet, Oct. 27, 1978, New York City. Program includes remarks deliverd by W&L President Huntley, "In Defense of Liberal Arts Education."
This fundraising DVD includes two centerpiece videos and nine short film segments.
This book acknowledges the more than 15,000 alumni, parents, friends of the University who made the Campaign for Washington and Lee a resounding success. We are deeply grateful.
Includes a generic letter from William J. Watt, Chairman of the Faculty and Staff Committe, January 20, 1992.
Spring 2018 issue - The Professor Sidney M. B. Coulling '46 Scholarship Endowment; Ed Spencer '53 Still a Cornerstone of the University; Harry Pememberton, Prof. of Philosophy Emeritus, 1925-2017.
A few of the subjects listed as files of the collection, but most of them are agent links on the record.
Camp Greenbrier is a summer camp for boys nestled in the Allegheny Mountains, on the beautiful Greenbrier River in Alderson, West Virginia. It was founded in 1898 and is the oldest, privately owned summer camp in continuous operation in the United States.
Material concerning the "almost world famous croquet tournament/music festival" that never apparently occurred at A. B. Claytor's farm in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Included is a letter from Lex O. McMillan, III, '72, to Francis McQ. Lawrence, '71, thanking him for the donation of the croquet material. Also included in this letter, is information on the W&L Print Shop, where Lex worked the Summer of 1971.
On January 29, 1981, The Lampost was born and grew out of the desire and vision of W&L Student, Garry Carneal, to secure a house where Christian fellowship could occur and be nurtured.
Prof. Sam Calhoun was on the Board of The Lampost and faculty adviser.
On Feb. 5, 1988, Josh McDowell, affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ, spoke at W&L.
The Lampost at 202 S. Randolph Street, Lexington, was born on January 29, 1981. It grew out of the desire and vision of W&L student, Garry Carneal, to secure a house where Christian fellowship could occur and be nutured.
Prof. Sam Calhoun was on the Board of The Lampost and was the faculty adviser.
Josh McDowell, affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ, spoke at W&L on Frebruary 5, 1988.
Earl N. Levitt's clothing store on Nelson Street became a Lexington and W&L institution in the mid-20th century.
The bronze equestrian statue was created by noted Canadian sculptor, A. Phimister Proctor, and dedicated on June 12, 1936, in Dallas, Texas. In 1990 a Dallas group worked to restore, preserve it and other statues.
The original model of the monument was presented to Washington and Lee University for their June 1936 Commencement.
Mainly correspondence dealing with gifts of named ponies to the W&L Polo Club.
W&L Department of Music, Theater and Dance, Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Music Event programs and invitation.
A Celebration of Life program for Elizabeth, a Mead Assoc. real estate pamphlet for Elizabeth's home, "Longue Vue," on Ross Road Extended, and a photocopy of a photo of the Bentley Musical, Chicago cast with Elizabeth, February 2010.