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The Withers A. Burress papers consist of papers that document Burress' United States Army career for the period from 1942 to 1954. Included are photos, a subject file on the 100th Infantry Division, scrapbooks, correspondence, orders, and memos. Other items include retirement correspondence (dated 1957-1971).

The collection is composed of programs, media guides, schedules, rosters, posters, ephemera and other material related to the women's basketball team at William & Mary. The bulk of the material pertains to the years after 1991 and consists mainly of programs and media guides which are arranged chronologically.

The collection contains two minute books and three folders of loose papers taken from the minute books, a copy of the Constitution of the Women's Students Association, a letter from Dean of Women Robert Hollingsworth and Peggy Thompson, Acting President, to the Women Students of the University of Virginia, 1946, enclosing a copy of the Constitution, and explaining various regulations and describing organizations that welcome women, and in what capacity. It also includes papers regarding women students at U.Va., including the typesetting copy and galley proof of the "University of Virginia Handbook for Women Students, 1948," a publication prepared by the Panhellenic Council and the officers of the Women Students Association. The handbook contains information one would expect to find in any new student handbook, with particular attention to the activities and organizations open to women's involvement. Also included is a copy of the Constitution of the Women Students Association and a map of the grounds with places of interest to women students highlighted including the new women's dormitory, the co-ed room and the office of the Dean of Women.

Papers relating to the Woodbridge and Mendenhall Families including materials of Julia Woodbridge Oxrieder, folklorist and author; her brother, Hensley Woodbridge, a bibliographer of Latin American literature; and their parents, Dean of the College of William and Mary Law School, Dudley Woodbridge and his wife. Some material relates to Williamsburg, Virginia. The collection includes diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and other materials.