Object Type: Folder
In Folder: Box 007
Group portrait of the 1959 Associate of Arts Degree honor graduates.
1959-06-07
Award recipients from left; Dick Rutyna received a $1,500 fellowship to do graduate study in history at the College of William and Mary, Betty Wheeler received her Bachelor of Arts degree with top honors, and Ivan Scott was awarded a $1,800 assistantship plus tuition to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania.
1959-06-07
The graduates pictured received their Bachelor of Arts degrees during the 1959 commencement exercises. Front row, left to right: Betty Rae Owen, Patricia Boyce, Gladys Lewis, Betty Wheeler, Ann Wilson, Theodore Garnett, and Rupert Owens. Back row, left to right: Mary Felts, Wilbur Dean Campbell, Harry May, and Jacqueline Anderson.
1959-06-07
Katherine Adams, Richard Deaton, and an unidentfied female student earned Bachelor of Science degress with honors.
1959-06-07
Betty Wheeler (far left) was the top honor graduate of the Class of 1959. She is shown being congratulated by her family and Professor Stanley Pliska, head of the Social Studies Department of the Norfolk Division. From left to right: Betty Wheeler, Richard Wheeler, Mr. Wheeler, Leon Wheeler, and Stanley Pliska.
1959-06-07
Bachelor of Business Administration honor graduates from left to right: Jim Bell, Doug Whitney, Harlan Timm, and Eloise Lukasik.
1959-06-07
Graduates, Charlotte Brown and Richard Deaton, talk with Reverend Rowland Wagner after commencement exercises.
1959-06-07
Box lunches were given out to alumni and seniors at the picnic following commencement rehearsal on June 6, 1959.
1959-06-06
Mrs. William Pogue, Mrs. Joseph Williford, and Mrs. Donald McGee, all faculty wives serve punch during the Commencement Reception held in front of the Administration Building.
1959-06-07
Graduates go through their paces during commencement rehearsal at Foreman Field on June 6, 1959.
1959-06-06
A student receives his bachelor's hood during the 1959 commencement exercises.
1959-06-07
Graduating with honors in Education are from left to right: Charles Jackson, B. S. in Physical Education, Ida Faye McMath, B. S. in Secondary Education, Harold McGee, B. S. In Secondary Education, Betty Lucas, B. S. in Secondary Education, Barbara Rosen, B. S. in Secondary Education, Earl Booth, B. S. in Secondary Education, and Connie Rowe, B. S. in Physical Education.
1959-06-07
Elementary Education honor graduates are from left to right: Grace Meekins, Margaret Cleghorn, Kathleen Beye, Billie S. McPherson, Lois Farwell, Betty Anne Welton, Anna Carothers, Hazel Wynne, Helen Lambert, and Helen Morton.
1959-06-07
Elwood G. Jackson (far right) received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Jackson is shown with his family from left to right: Albert F. Woodhouse (son-in-law), Mrs. Albert F. (Evelyn) Woodhouse (daughter), Mrs. Elwood Jackson (wife), Elwood Jackson, and Nancy Woodhouse (granddaughter).
1959-06-07
Fred Griffith is congratulated by his wife, Penny, after commencement exercises at Foreman Field where Griffith received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education.
1959-06-07
Bachelor of Science honor graduates Gloria Hecht and Sonny Montagna.
1959-06-07
Lenoir Chambers, Editor of Virginian Pilot, introduces Robert B. House, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina, the 1959 Commencement Speaker.
1959-06-07
Lewis W. Webb, Jr., Director of the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, introduces Lenoir Chambers, Editor of the Virginian Pilot, who will then introduce guest speaker, Robert B. House, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina, during the 1959 cemmencement ceremony.
1959-06-07
Robert B. House, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina, addresses students and faculty at commencement exercises on June 7, 1959.
1959-06-07
Roy Charles, Secretary of the College of William and Mary Board of Visitors, presents Betty Wheeler with a Bachelor of Arts diploma.
1959-06-07
Roy Charles, Secretary of the College of William and Mary Board of Visitors, presents a student with a diploma at the Norfolk Division's 1959 Commencement.
1959-06-07
