Collections

This collection includes programs, scripts, remarks, addresses, speeches, invitations, and other related material from commencement exercises at the College of William and Mary. Events and ceremonies related to graduation would also include the baccalaureate service and other events.

The items in this collection date from 1863 to 2021 and include mainly Commencement programs and invitations. However, the collection also includes newspaper clippings, school announcements, and webpage print-outs.

These print and digital records document commencement ceremonies and related events at the University of Virginia School of Law. They include event programs, video recordings, photographs, and websites.

Records of the Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination Against African Americans, 2021-2024, are comprised of materials created and collected by the Project Manager and include agendas, annual plans, annual reports, correspondence, discussion points, draft reports, interviews, legislation, meeting materials, minutes, notes,photographs, presentations, project plans, recordings, reports, recommendations, recordings, research notes, and talking points. Materials of note include Annual reports, 2022-2024; Meeting materials and minutes, 2022-2024; Two Year Project Plan, 2022; as well as annual plans, Project Manager Reports, and subcommittee reports.

The records of the Communications Office document the department's contributions to the University of Virginia School of Law. The collection contains copies of printed matter produced by the office, including admissions information booklets, brochures, flyers, posters, reports, conference and symposium programs, postcards, and stationary. Also, it contains some of the resources used to produce the printed matter and other content. These include photographic slides, prints, and negatives; digital image files; and digital design and publication files. Finally, the collection contains two CD-ROMs and two banners.

This collection includes material from the opening, special and honors convocations held at the College of William and Mary.

Contains correspondence and subject files of the Director of the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation that document the planning, direction, and implementation of agency and board programs and are evidence of actions and policy decisions. Includes correspondence with the agency boards, Secretary of Economic Development/Commerce and Trade, and the Governor’s Office. Also may include newsletters, weekly reports, strategic planning reports, agency study reports, and financial reports.

Correspondence and subject files of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 2014-2022, cover the administrations of Governor Terrence McAuliffe (2014-2018) and Governor Ralph Northam (2018-2022) and there is some overlap between the records of the two administrations. Includes records of Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar Stoney (2014-2016), Secretary of the Commonwealth Kelly Thomasson (2016-2022) and Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth Traci DeShazor (2016-2022). Records may include agendas, correspondence, executive order, legislation, meeting records, minutes, notes, oaths of office, presentations, proposals, regulations, reports and talking points.

Collection consists photographs including of one black and white photograph of members of Kappa Kappa Gamma (Gamma Kappa Chapter) sorority, circa 1969-1970, standing on the front porch wall of the Kappa Kappa Gamma house in Sorority Court. Jean "Dale" Brubeck (Class of 1970) framed this photograph with a newspaper clipping reading "Just that they are human beings - and very much a part of your life." The accession also contains a slideshow of photographs of Gamma Kappa Chapter members submitted to Dale Brubeck for the Gamma Chapter's 100th Anniversary celebration, which Dale and Kappa Kappa Gamma Archivist Kylie Smith combined into a video for the event. The video also features musical recordings of Gamma Kappa Chapter members singing.