University of Virginia Student Council election flier, 1971.

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University of Virginia Student Council election flier, 1971.

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"Support this hamster" campaign flier for Speedy the hamster, the candidate who "would rather run on the issues, or sometime his metal wheel." Speedy's campaign was managed by his owner Steve Squire, together with a group of friends including Charlie Finn and Jim Cameron. The verso of the flier contains a letter from "Ann" to "Mother and Dad" reporting that Speedy "garnered 680 write-in votes, carrying the medical school & running well in graduate arts & sciences, & architecture [but] lost in the college where people still take things seriously." She also reports that college student Bill [Holleman] was appalled at the "affront to tradition." The letter also discusses the phonetic spelling of a Civil War letter in the Manuscripts Dept. of Alderman Library and a murder at Barracks Road shopping center.

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Squire, Stephen E.

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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...

Holleman, William B.

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University of Virginia. Student Council

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Cameron, James

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Finn, Charles C.

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