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Graduate Judy Lynn Garland engaging with guests at the 1971 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Graduate Thomas Robert Brett with fiancée and rising senior Susan M. Ralph at the 1971 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Graduate Lavina Christine Prescott speaking with a guest at the 1971 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Graduate William Denton receives his diploma from his father and commencement speaker, Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, at the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

An image of a graduate speaking to a little girl after receiving her diploma in the Hofheimer Library plaza at the 1970 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Graduate Barbara Anne Tucker and guest walking at the 1971 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Rising senior Susan M. Ralph admires her fiancée and graduating student, Thomas Robert Brett, at the 1971 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin at the microphone on the podium with the shovels that will be used for the Virginia Wesleyan College Village 1 groundbreaking ceremony on July 18, 1965.

Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin speaks to the spectators from the podium at the Virginia Wesleyan College Village 1 groundbreaking ceremony on July 18, 1965.

A photograph of the General Hospital of Virginia Beach, formerly located on Arctic Avenue and 25th Street.

An educational exhibit of Miss Evelyn Collins Hill, rosarian of the Princess Anne Garden Club, and past rosarian of the Garden Club of Virginia. The photograph suggests the flowers were cultivated on Sea Breeze Farm, Lynnhaven, Virginia.

In a meeting held on April 1961, Bishop Paul Neff Garber (left); Dr. Joseph S. Johnston; Milo Henke, Director for the Conference Crusade for Higher Education; and Dr. John O. Gross of the General Board of Higher Education in Nashville, prepare to…

College Marshal Col. Robert Tucker leads the academic procession from Village 1 to the Hofheimer Library plaza for the 1970 commencement ceremony at Virginia Wesleyan College.

College Marshal Col. Robert Tucker leads the full procession to the Hofheimer Library plaza for the 1970 commencement ceremony at Virginia Wesleyan College.

Unidentified man in the Frost family soybean field in Blackwater sometime in the 1950s.

On September 8, 2016, Virginia Wesleyan College celebrated its first Founder's Day. This logo was used for the inaugural Founder's Day convocation. Virginia Wesleyan College was founded in 1961, and welcomed its first matriculating class in 1966.

The Christian Higher Education Campaign booklet issued by the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church. Contains a message from Resident Bishop Paul Neff Garber, a description of the Methodist universities and colleges in Virginia, upcoming…

The flume at Thirteenth Street was constructed in 1890 to convey water to Lake Holly to allow saltwater fishing for guests.

Two young women point a driver toward an unspecified direction at the 1972 Women of Wesleyan Flea Market.

Black and white photograph of Virginia Wesleyan College's first full-time faculty and staff.
From left, Donald Davis, admission director; Joseph Stevens, political science professor and acting dean; Ann Matson, bookkeeper; Lambuth Clarke, president;…