UVA Alumni Memory Wall

December 1976, 3rd floor Kent dorm (south end). Our hallway was an extension of our dorm rooms. The payphone mounted next to the bathroom entrance was mostly used for incoming calls. We could place long distance outgoing calls on the RA’s telephone whenever she put it in the hallway outside her door (we paid for our calls when the monthly bill arrived). The popcorn maker was often in use outside the RA’s room (where it was plugged in), especially during midterms and finals week. This photo shows us gathering together at the end of our 1st college semester.

Fall 1976. Gatherings were common in my dorm room. On this particular evening, everyone huddled in close as one of my hallmates read aloud from the Playgirl magazine that my roommate had just received from us for her 18th birthday.

So I went to a football game accidentally wearing the other team’s colors oops. I then bought the flag you see in the middle of the photo to demonstrate that I was a UVA fan. Long story short bought the flag back to Maryland and the club loved it!

This is from my first year in Page Dorm, with my roommate, Yvette, in our room. We called it “cell block 305” due to the cinder block walls and non-existent carpet.

Taken on the Monday morning after the 1975 Easter’s Sunday party in Mad Bowl. This was the result of the fire hydrant being opened.

Sunday of Easters Weekend, 1975. Parties at individual frat houses were banned. Everything was moved to Mad Bowl. No mud allowed. But somebody opened up fire hydrant on the Rugby Road side. There was a fair amount of mud. This picture comes for the Corks and Curls. See second picture posted of the following morning, which was not in the yearbook.

We met at a party at Lambeth and dated in our third and fourth years at UVA (1988-1990), then we parted ways pursuing our careers – Tom went to Detroit, I went to New York City. We both went on to marry other people; each of us had two daughters. In 2016 we reconnected after our respective divorces. In 2020 we married — 32 YEARS after we first met. A UVA happy ending, for certain! We now live in Ithaca NY and spend 3-5 months a year on the road, exploring the world in our self built camper van.

UVa related Photos from 1970 to 2024

Law enforcement professionals from around the world come together for executive training provided at the FBI National Academy, with the opportunity to pursue an MPS at the University of Virginia. It was great to gather with L.E. classmates and the brilliant UVA faculty to celebrate our monumental accomplishment in 2024!

Ginkgo at the Virginia Arboretum

We entered by the gateway and Seek the Way of Honor, The Light of Truth, and the Will to Work for Men.

College Friends at Orange Bowl game.

When College GameDay came to UVA January 31st 2015

We didn’t go anywhere without our IDs!

Last great gathering before the class of 1985 graduated.

April 8, 2019. My sorority Little on my back on the Corner the night we won the Basketball National Championship.

An autumn afternoon on the Lawn

Study Break at Courtenay during midterms. To this day, we remain tight!

Graduation 1980

Graduation 1990

UVA vs. Oklahoma NCAA 1989

Graduation 1974

Graduation 1974

Easter’s 1975….a day of mud, sun and little concern about class assignments due the next day

UVA Pi Beta Phi Pledge Class 1980

Bahamas Party (do they even have those anymore?) at the SAM house – 619 Cabell Avenue, 1990

I graduated in 2013 and am now back on grounds as a CAPS Staff Psychotherapist. Wahoowa!

Moving in to my new home away from home, Metcalf 3L. Now, I am back on grounds as a Staff Psychotherapist with CAPS! Wahoowa!

I don’t specifically remember what this gathering was about but we would often get together on the lawn with groups of friends to socialize. The place to be!

Back in the day-1978- we had many cocktail parties outside our friend’s lawn room. (Before the drinking age was raised!). Always a lovely spot….the Lawn is a small slice of heaven.

The Virginia Sil’hooettes, UVA’s most award-winning a cappella group, celebrated their 35th anniversary this spring with an entire weekend of events dedicated to celebrating their alumni. Over 100 graduated Sils came back to grounds, including their four founders and many of the original members from the group’s inaugural year in 1989.

My dad (48 Econ) and me (77 Envi Sci) with “Mr. Jefferson.”

Your favorite YAC story or memory

Hearing in each interview that “the purpose of the YAC endowment is to ensure the organization will live in perpetuity.” -Nick Rupert

First year, Page Dorm, 1974

Third floor Page Dorm, 1974

Moving one foot in front of the other to make it to the coveted graduation. Lucky to have my Nursing School cohort in the sea of Schools graduating!

I attended the college then the School of Nursing, class of 1974. It was like straddling two worlds – the college where women were making their way depending in large part on each other for guidance (the male ego was all over the place and unpredictable – lover or hater) and McKim Hall/McLeod Hall where women were the majority but a “class system” existed none the less (diploma and BSN RNs). We learned the traditions and, in so learning, were prepared for the work world of the hospital. Pinning was as important as graduating.

Move in weekend September 1970 and 2024 Reunions

UVA reunions 2019 (my 15th year reunion!)

UVA reunions 2019 (my 15th year reunion!)

UVA reunions 2019 (my 15th year reunion!)