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Clean Water and Energy

Clean Water and Energy0

U.Va. alumna works for sustainable development

Jan 30, 2012by Anna Garwood (Col ’01)

One early morning, in a small village of Potreritos, Nicaragua, I watched as the women and girls put on their flip-flops, picked up empty buckets and started their daily trek to the water source.  They filled up five-gallon plastic buckets that weighed 40lbs and hoisted them up on their heads. It was amazing to watch them balance the heavy load without losing any of the precious contents. Unlike their mothers, however, these girls wouldn’t have to haul water their whole lives. Together, the entire community and many partners, including an organization I lead, has helped them build a solar-powered water…

The Simple Things Said It All

The Simple Things Said It All14

Reflections on being in the first class of women

Oct 28, 2011by Betty Shotton (Col ’74)

On being in the first class of women.

A Summer at a Bolivian Orphanage

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An alumna’s rejuvenating volunteer experience

Oct 10, 2011by Renae Townsend (Educ ’03)

Last summer, I visited an orphanage in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, called the Stansberry Children’s Home. The trip was full of unexpected coincidences and on the first day, I discovered surprising connections to both the University of Virginia and Canada, my country of birth. Two years ago, I volunteered as a teacher and coordinator for an after-school Spanish club along with several parents in my Goochland community. Ms. Stansberry attended the club meetings with her two children. Her grandparents, Elena and John Stansberry, founded an orphanage in Bolivia in 1954. With this fortuitous connection, my sister Jennette and I applied to…

Sowing the Seeds of Peace

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Diplomat Judith Raine Baroody (Grad ’85) brings together divided Cypriots

Aug 26, 2011by Judith Raine Baroody (Grad '85)

Diplomats in blue jeans, we gazed up anxiously at the September skies of Cyprus as we assembled chairs and sound equipment for the festival to bring together Greek- and Turkish Cypriots. It had been a dry year, but now dark clouds were gathering above us, over the grounds of the once-splendid Ledra Palace Hotel in the buffer zone that separated the two sides of the former British colony. There had been clashes between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots since 1963, when violence broke out in the capital of Nicosia. In 1974, the Greek government’s attempt to seize control led to…

Greatest U.Va. Baseball Comeback

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Alumnus’ experience of the U.Va. vs. UCI game in June 2011

Aug 22, 2011by Fritz Franke (Com ’83)

I was lucky enough to be invited to the final baseball game of the Virginia Super Regional against UC Irvine on June 13, my birthday. Being an ‘83 alum, I never pass up an opportunity to go to any game.  So my cousin, Jim Ragsdale (Col ’96), my daughter and I entered Davenport Field not knowing we would see one of the greatest games in Virginia baseball history. The place was rocking. You could sense that this game was going to be big, and that feeling grew as the game progressed.  In the top of the ninth with the game…

A Place of Retreat

A Place of Retreat1

Architect builds cabin by hand

Aug 17, 2011by T. Olle Lundberg (Arch ’79)

Architecture alumnus builds a cabin in the woods

Alumni Love Stories

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U.Va. as matchmaker

Jul 22, 2011by Various alumni

We asked you to tell us your love stories. And you came back with stories about awkward introductions and first dates on the Corner.

Remembrances from War Years

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An alumna who studied engineering shares a few memories

Apr 13, 2011by Mary-Boynton Goodloe Gordon Hargraves Davis (Educ '47)

An alumna who studied engineering shares a few memories

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