Students and alumni
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use "University History," too.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John R. Hutcheson Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-001
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other items document the career and family of John R. Hutcheson. After earning his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), John Redd Hutcheson (1886-1962) began working at the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service in 1914, becoming its director in 1919. Hutcheson was elected as president of VPI in 1945, serving until his nomination as VPI's first chancellor in 1947. The next year he became the first president of...
Dates:
1890 - 1969; Majority of material found within ( 1930-1950)
Thomas O. Sandy Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2006-022
Abstract
The collection includes correspondence, receipts, farm records, and other papers of Thomas O. Sandy, a farmer in Nottoway County, Virginia, and the first state demonstration agent for agricultural extension in Virginia. The papers relate to Sandy's farm, extension work, and estate.
Dates:
1910 - 1928