Faculty Member and Alumnus; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, VA in 1895. She earned a certificate in Rural Education in 1915 from the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute. She returned to the Univeristy and in 1922 graduated with a Normal Degree as...
Campus Building; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
In 1922, the university purchased an old silk mill located on the southside of the campus. This building would be used for vocational education. This building became a part of Simms Hall.
Leland University owes its existence to the wise forethought and broad generosity of Holbrook Chamberlain, a resident of Brooklyn, New York. Chamberlain came to New Orleans for the purpose of establishing an institution of higher learning for...
In 1925, when the Reverend Edgar H. Goold Was President, the Bishop Tuttle School Was Established at Saint Augustine's College as a National Center Under the Auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church For the Training of Female Church Workers...
Named After the School's Fifth President, Brown Hall Was Built in 1927 at a Cost of 150,000, Half of Which Was Donated By the John D. Rockefeller General Education Board. Brown Hall Served as the College's Administration Building.
Wilhemina Hamlin was a native of Petersburg, Va. She had a B.S. degree in Education from Columbia University. She held a number of positions at Virginia State University and was considered one the finest instructors of education in Virginia.
"DOWN" The Old Laboratory School which was built in 1930 to serve high school students on the campus of Southern University Baton Rouge was demolished to make room for the new $7.4 million dollar John B. Cade...
Doxey Alfonzo Wilkerson had a A.D. Degree in English from the University of Kansas. He came to Virginia State in 1927. He was the acting director of the high school and professor secondary education in 1929.
James Barnes came to Virginia State in 1931 as an instructor in health and physical education. He also coached basketball, football, and track during his short stay at Virginia State College for Negroes. There is a street named for Coach Barnes...
