In Your Words

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 tied...

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

Alumni Love Stories2

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

Military Family

Military Family0

Alumna shares her experience starting a family on a far-flung military base

Apr 07, 2011by Louisa Gehring (Col ’07)

For three of my four years at U.Va., I dated my future husband, Greg, who was then a midshipman at the Naval Academy. Despite this distance and military obligations—which often allowed us to see each other once a month—many weekends were spent making the three-hour drive between Annapolis and Charlottesville, allowing me to taste the military academy lifestyle and Greg to enjoy a “real” college experience. Louisa Gehring and her husband, GregAfter our graduation in May 2007, Greg entered The Basic School in Quantico for training, and I headed to Richmond for a job at Capital One. At...

Building a School in Ethiopia

Building a School in Ethiopia1

After 40 years, alum achieves his dream of building a school

Mar 30, 2011by Robert Gausman (Arch ’79)

Forty years ago I arrived in Ethiopia to work with the Peace Corps as part of their Rural Development Program. Ethiopia was at that time, and unfortunately remains today, one of the least developed countries in the world. Although its problems were no different from those suffered by most underdeveloped countries at the time—namely lack of education, health facilities, sanitation, infrastructure and a working middle class—it had the further disadvantage of a history of feudal land ownership supported by the policies of His Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie. A traditional home in EthiopiaUp until 1968, the primary focus of the...

The Way We Were: The ’20s and ’30s at U.Va.

The Way We Were: The ’20s and ’30s at U.Va.1

A conversation with Constance Page Daniel

Feb 23, 2011by Constance Page Daniel (Col '31)

Constance Page Daniel—whose father was mathematics professor mathematics professor James Morris Page, dean of the faculty—grew up on Grounds and earned an undergraduate degree from the University. She discusses what Charlottesville was like in the first half of the 20th century and reminisces about her experiences as a young woman at U.Va.Constance Page Daniel’s portrait in the 1927 Lane High School yearbook V.M.: Tell us about how you came to be an undergraduate student at U.Va. This strange woman—she was quite rich—came by my father’s office one day, and said she...

Tending the Vines

Tending the Vines0

An alumni couple’s adventures in viniculture

Feb 08, 2011by Elizabeth Roberts Smith (Col ’84)

An alumna's perspective: As the seasons change so does the labor of caring for vines and making wine.

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