Commencement addresses at the University of Virginia, 1911-2006.

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Commencement addresses at the University of Virginia, 1911-2006.

The collection contains copies of addresses delivered at the University of Virginia, 1911-2006 as well as some orginal typescripts and drafts. The collection contains copies of three speeches delivered by President E.A. Alderman in 1911, 1920 and 1926. There are also speeches delivered by A.A. Hill, 1939, Franklin Roosevelt, 1940; Marshall Field, 1941; Colgate Darden, 1942; Eric Allen Johnston, 1942; Staige D. Blackford, 194[6?] (hospital); J.W. Fulbright, 1947; David E. Lilienthal, 1948; Gilford Norman Ward, 1949 (summer school). Also Robert O. Nelson, 1952 (summer school); Colgate Darden, 1956; Gabriel Hague, 1957 (excerpts); Colgate Darden, 1959; Colgate Darden,1964; Edgar Shannon, 1970; William F. Buckley, 1972; Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1973; Edgar Shannon, 1974; Mills E. Godwin, Jr., 1976. Also James R. Schlesinger, 1977, Thurgood Marshall, 1978; Pete V. Domenici, 1982; Charles S. Robb, 1983; Frank L. Hereford, 1985; L. Douglas Wilder, 1986; John Paul Stevens, 1988; Gerald L. Baliles, 1989. Also Robert M. O'Neil, 1990; W. Nathaniel Howell, 1991; John Charles Thomas, 1992; John Casteern, 1993; George Allen, 1994; William Raspberry, 1995; Kathryn C. Thornton, 1996; and Hunter B. Andrews, 1997; James Gilmore, 1998; Howard H. Baker, Jr., 1999; and Timothy M. Kaine, 2006. With the 1992 speech is a copy of the invocation offered that year by the Rev. Kenneth R. Carbaugh. Of special interests are the speeches by President Roosevelt ("the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor"); and Edgar Shannon, 1970, on May Days and the student strike at the University of Virginia.

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Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993

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Thurgood Marshall (b. July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland – d. January 24, 1993, Washington, D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a 1954 decision that ruled t...

Lilienthal, David E. (David Eli), 1899-1981

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Wilder, Lawrence Douglas, 1931-

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Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007

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Thomas, John Charles

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Hereford, Frank L. (Frank Loucks), 1923-2004

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University of Virginia Professor of Physics, Department Head, Graduate Dean, Provost, Vice-President; Chairman of the Committee on the Future of the University and President of the University. From the description of Oral history interview of Frank L. Hereford, Jr. by Lisa G. Guernsey [manuscript], April 12, 1993. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920270 ...

Field, Marshall, 1893-1956

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Schlesinger, James R.

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Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008

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Epithet: jr of the National Review British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000169 William F. Buckley, Jr. was born in 1925 and graduated from Yale University in 1950. In 1955 he founded the magazine The National Review. He also wrote a nationally syndicated column and hosted the weekly television show Firing Line from 1966 through 1999. In 1965 Buckley ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative Party candidate for...

Carbaugh, Kenneth R.

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Raspberry, William.

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Gilmore, James S. (James Stuart), 1949-

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Casteen, John Thomas

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President of the University of Virginia. From the description of Oral history interview of John Thomas Casteen by Lisa G. Guernsey [manuscript], May 3, 1993. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647919946 ...

Domenici, Pete

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Kaine, Timothy M.

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Thornton, Kathryn Jan

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Oneil, Robert M.

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President of the University of Virginia. From the description of Oral history interview of Robert M. O'Neil by Lisa G. Guernsey [manuscript], April 12, 1993. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920493 ...

University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Shannon, Edgar Finley, 1918-1997

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Godwin, Mills E. (Mills Edwin), 1914-1999

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Johnston, Eric A. (Eric Allen), 1895-1963

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Motion picture executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Eric A. Johnston : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481310 Material for biographical note taken from "The Eric A. Johnston Story" by Ralph P. Edgerton, 1979. (Copy located in The Westerners, Spokane Corral Records [Ms 141].) Eric Johnston has been described as ambitious, aggressive, and industrious. With a plethora of natural ta...

Hill, A. A.

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Stevens, John Paul, 1920-2019

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Allen, George, 1952-

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Andrews, Hunter B.,

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Howell, W. Nathaniel (Wilson Nathaniel), 1939-

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Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931

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Educator and orator. From the description of Letter to a former student [manuscript], 1920 June 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647976354 From the description of Edwin Anderson Alderman papers [manuscript], 1881-1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647925708 University of Virginia president. From the description of Sketch of Edwin Anderson Alderman [manuscript], ca. 1925. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 64781...

Baliles, Gerald L.

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Ward, Gilford N.

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Robb, Charles S.

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Herbert Harvell Bateman was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina, 7 August 1928. He graduated from the College of William and Mary and received his law degree from Georgetown University. He served in the Virginia Senate from 1968 until 1983 when he was elected to Congress. 1928 August 7 Born, Elizabeth City, North Carolina 1949 ...

Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of James William Fulbright : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743979 From the description of Reminiscences of James William Fulbright : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743991 Epithet: Senator Chairman United States Senate Committee for Foreign Relations British Library Archives and Manuscripts C...

Blackford, Staige D. (Staige Davis), 1898-1949

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Class of 1917, member of faculty of Medical School, reorganized Student Health Service and Commander 8th Evacuation Hospital Unit World War II. From the description of Address by the Rev. William H. Laird on presentation to University of Virginia of portrait of Dr. Blackford, class of 1917, member of faculty of Medical School, reorganized Student Health Service and Commander 8th Evacuation Hospital Unit World War II [manuscript] 27 Aug. 1950. 1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat ...

Baker, Howard Henry, 1925-2014

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Howard H. Baker Jr., former US senator whose ability to work with Democratic and Republican lawmakers earned him the nickname of “The Great Conciliator,” died on Thursday, June 26, 2014. He was eighty-eight. Baker earned his law degree from UT in 1949. The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at UT was founded in 2003 as a nonpartisan institute devoted to education and research concerning public policy and civic engagement. Baker received the university’s first honorary doctorate in spri...

Hall, Gilford Norman.

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Hague, Gabriel.

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