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College of William and Mary--Commencement

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Alumni Association Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 47
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1960-2010; Majority of material found in 1970-1990

Colonial Echo records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 8.001
Scope and Contents 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.Acc. 1987.036 is an album containing photographs used by EG Swem,Jr., as business manager, in the preparation of the 1931 Colonial Echo, Presented by EG Swem,Jr....
Dates: 1931-2004

Color Print of Kamil Kubik's "William and Mary Graduation"

 Collection
Identifier: UA 379
Scope and Contents

Color print of Kamil Kubik's painting "William and Mary Graduation." The scene features students in the Wren Yard with the Wren Building and President's House visible. The print is signed by the artist.

Dates: undated

Commencement Exercises collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 314
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1831-2023

David G. Blood Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.161
Scope and Contents The collection consists of ten color slides. Eight slides are of William & Mary's 1961 and 1964 commencement ceremonies and were taken by George Blood, David Blood's father. David Blood was in the W&M Choir and required to attend the 1961 ceremony. The remaining two slides are of the Wren building and Robertson's windmill within Colonial Williamsburg, respectively. The Wren image was taken by David Blood in 1960, and the windmill was taken by David Blood in 1981.2012...
Dates: 1960-1981

Douglas E. Brown Commencement collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.299
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two programs, two digitized slide photographs, and a newspaper article related to William & Mary Commencement ceremonies in 1971 and 1974. The donor supplied this description for the photographs: "The picture is from our June, 1971, commencement ceremony in front of the Wren Building. I believe President Paschall is at the microphone with various dignitaries on the stage behind him. Backstory: While digging through an old basement box full of "stuff", I came...
Dates: 1971, 1974

C. James Gleason Photography Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 8.002
Scope and Contents

The collection of James Gleason represents all aspects of events and activities at the College of William and Mary for the years 1983-2006. Events documented include: Charter Day, commencement, buildings, awards, faculty and staff, students, and athletics. Physically the collection is organized by the "rolls of film taken" and into years they were taken. They are stored and protected in plastic sheets in notebooks and numbered for identification.

Dates: 1987-2008

Glenn Close Letter, 2019 March 9

 File
Scope and Contents

A two page letter from Glenn Close to Katherine Rowe. In the letter, Close expresses how humbled she feels to receive an Honorary Fellowship from William and Mary, and accepts the request to give a speech during Commencement.

Dates: 2019 March 9

Guy Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1985.42
Scope and Contents 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. ...
Dates: 1900-1988

David L. Holmes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 6.070
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1974-2011

James McDowell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: UA 367
Scope and Contents

This collection contains of letters written to James McDowell (Governor of Virginia from 1843-1846, Member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1846-1851) by students at the College of William and Mary.

Dates: 1840, 1845, 1847

J. Wilfred Lambert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 6.067
Scope and Contents The collection includes awards and certificates of appreciation from organizations such as the Alumni Society, Circle K, Omicron Delta Kappa; photographs of Lambert with staff and students, as well as many College events such as Commencement, Parents Day, and ROTC Summer Camp; and a copy of a Commencement program from 1927 when Lambert graduated from William and Mary with a Bachelor of Arts degree. The collection also contains a scrapbook including photographs, clippings, and other...
Dates: 1927-1986

Office of the President. W. Taylor Reveley, III records

 Collection — Box 1-30
Identifier: UA 2.23
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2008-2018

Oversize materials, circa 1923

 File — Manuscripts Oversize Box 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Oversized items include William & Mary diploma and photograph collage from scrapbook

Dates: circa 1923

Signed Commencement Program and Note from President George H. W. Bush

 Collection
Identifier: UA 344
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a commencement program signed by U. S. President George H. W. Bush and a handwritten note by him to William & Mary President Timothy Sullivan. President Bush was the commencement speaker at the 1995 ceremony and also an honorary degree recipient (Doctor of Laws).

Dates: 1995 May