University of Mary Washington sophomore Brooke Prevedel considered dozens of schools in her quest to study ancient Greece and Rome in college. What she learned about the classics program at UMW catapulted it to the top of her list and convinced her to move 2,000 miles across the country from Colorado.“Now that I’m attending UMW […]
Cindy Ramirez was 8 years old when her sister was injured in a sledding accident that broke her sacrum, a pelvic bone that supports the weight of the upper body.“I was really nervous, but all I could think about in that moment was how I could help her,” said Ramirez, now a senior at the […]
Aaron Dobynes was 5 when word from a Memphis motel made it to his grandfather’s farm in Alabama. A family friend stopped by to relay the news of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and as the young Dobynes looked on, the two men began to cry.“I don’t know exactly how I was processing it, but […]
The William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series continues on Thursday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. with Associate Professor of European and Modern Russian History Steven Harris, who discusses the lives and fates of Communist dictator Joseph Stalin and Soviet aircraft engineer Andrei Tupolev. The Irene and Curry Roberts Lecture.Because of restrictions on public gatherings […]
In the fall of 1942, Helen D. Gawron traveled more than 400 miles from Chicopee, Massachusetts, to begin her education on the Mary Washington campus in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As was common during those war years, she quickly joined the cry to support our troops, pitching in with students from Betty Lewis and Frances Willard dormitories […]
