Christmas cards sent to President John Casteen of the University of Virginia [manuscript], 1998 December.

ArchivalResource

Christmas cards sent to President John Casteen of the University of Virginia [manuscript], 1998 December.

The cards are chiefly from presidents at other colleges. Several are from Charlottesville and University of Virginia friends. Notable senders include Rita Mae Brown, Governor James Gilmore of Virginia, U.S. Senator Charles Robb, and Eleanor Taylor, A card from Debbie Ryan includes a photograph of the 1998-99 University of Virginia women's basketball team.

79 items.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7925542

University of Virginia. Library

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Brown, Rita Mae, 1944-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rk5978 (person)

Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns, but tended to feud with their leaders over the marginalising of lesbians within the feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015. Brown was born in 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania to an unmarried teenage mother and her mother's ...

Robb, Charles S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t3r71 (person)

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 ...

Casteen, John Thomas

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g0jn3 (person)

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 ...

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64j0m01 (person)

Taylor, Eleanor Ross, 1920-2011

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m622p1 (person)

Eleanor Ross Taylor was born in North Carolina in 1920. She graduated from the Woman's College (UNCG) in 1940, and married writer Peter Taylor in 1943. Her first book of poetry, Wilderness of ladies (New York, McDowell) was published in 1960 and includes an introduction by Randall Jarrell. Her second volume of poems, Welcome Eumenides, appeared in 1972 (pub. Braziller); New and selected poems followed in 1983 (Winston-Salem, N.C., Stuart Wright). From the description of Welcome Eumen...