After six years as a spokesman for Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, most recently as deputy chief of staff, Washington and Lee alumnus Brian McClung, of the Class of 1995, has left that position to start his own public relations company, McClung Communications and Public Affairs, L.L.C., in Minneapolis-St. Paul. As a column in MinnPost.com, noted, […]
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Frank M. Young III, a 1963 Washington and Lee alumnus, has been named to the executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based American Committees on Foreign Relations (ACFR). Frank is chair of the International Law and Immigration Practice Team of the Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC.. ACFR is as a nonprofit association dedicated to facilitating […]
Earlier this month, two Washington and Lee alumni turned their cameras on the music festival, Bonnaroo. Taylor Crothers of the Class of 1993 has been documenting the work of musicians such as Dave Matthews since the early 1990s and was one of the two official photographers at Bonnaroo, the four-day mega-music festival in Manchester, Tenn., […]
Washington and Lee alumni from the late '60s and early '70s who are careful viewers of ABC's “World News with Diane Sawyer” might have seen a familiar face there on June 9: Guy Glenn '67, '71L. He was interviewed for a story about the frugal millionaire Verna Oller, who left $4.5 million to her hometown […]
Author Sam McLeod, known to his Washington and Lee law school classmates as Steve Johnson of the Class of 1981, has just published his newest book, Big Appetite: My Southern-Fried Search for Life. It's his fourth book, following a trilogy Welcome to Walla Walla, Bottled Walla and Blue Walla. The next edition of the W&L […]
With its W&L Traveller program, the University’s Office of Special Programs tours the world, allowing alumni and other adventurers to explore countries from Vietnam to Turkey, cities from New Orleans to Madrid. What you may not know is that they also make a point of meeting up with other W&L sojourners while they are on […]
Andrea Wallack planned to pursue a career in biochemistry after her graduation from Washington and Lee in 1989. But plans change, and today Andrea is the CEO of NightOwl Document Management Services, the company she founded when she was only 24 and already managing director of two affiliated companies, Miralex and archiving company, ImageXe LLC. […]
Todd Brown, a 1985 graduate of Washington and Lee and a 23-year resident of Culpepper, Va., just received a major award from his home community — the 11th annual Good Scout Award. The Piedmont District Boy Scouts of America give it to residents who embody scouting principles through their work and community service. Todd moved […]
Tallahassee artist W. Stanley (Sandy) Proctor, of Washington and Lee's Class of 1961, has forged a impressive reputation in the art world, including election to the Florida Artists Hall of Fame (joining such other luminaries as Ernest Hemingway, Ray Charles, Tennessee Williams, and Zora Neale Hurston). He began as a painter and stone carver, and […]
The Rockbridge Rapids, the summer league baseball team that calls Washington and Lee's Smith Field home, are well into their second season in the Valley League. Washington and Lee alumni Jim Crothers '66 and Ken Newman '71 are the team's president and general managers, respectively. The Rapids are composed of college players from around the […]
In May, Reggie Aggarwal, a 1994 graduate of W&L's School of Law and founder and CEO of Cvent, was honored by the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS), which presented him its Distinguished Corporate Achievement Award. This latest recognition comes a year after Reggie was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year […]
PeacePlayers International aims to use the game of basketball to unite and educate children and their communities, and Washington and Lee alumna Marina Vasilara, of the Class of 1995, is managing director of PeacePlayers International in her home country of Cyprus. According to the PeacePlayers' website, the program that Marina manages in Cyprus hopes to […]
Washington and Lee junior Chloe Bellomy is in the news in her hometown of Beaufort, S.C., for a cool project that she has developed there. An English major with a creative writing minor, Chloe is a Johnson Scholar at W&L, and the story about her novel idea in The Island Packet begins by notig that […]
Loranne Ausley, a 1990 graduate of Washington and Lee's School of Law, is racing in Florida. Not only is she running to become the state's chief financial officer, one of three members of the Florida cabinet, but she also competed in the North Florida Olympic Triathlon as part of an unusual campaign fund-raising effort. Loranne […]
A Washington and Lee journalism student and a W&L journalism alumna have connected in the Washington bureau of CBS News this summer, and the initial result is a story, both print and video, on how music is helping New Orleans to heal. Alicia Budich, who will be a senior at W&L in the fall, is […]
Washington and Lee alumnus David Stovall Jr. of the Class of 1969 was always headed for the retail sales business. That's one of the takeaways from a wide-ranging Q and A with David, the president and CEO of Jacksonville-based Stein Mart, that appeared in the Financial News & Daily Record (Jacksonville, Fla.) earlier this month. […]
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Washington and Lee law alumnus R. Booth Goodwin II (Class of 1996) as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia. Formerly an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the office since 2001, Booth was nominated by President Obama in January. In announcing the confirmation, both West Virginia U.S. senators cited […]
As their capstone course in journalism, four teams of students in Washington and Lee's In-Depth Reporting class prepared major projects on topics of local significance.The teams spent the four-week spring term reporting on those subjects and creating interactive websites that included video as well as a series of newspaper stories. You can view the final […]
Jeff Knudson, senior technology architect in Washington and Lee's Information Technology Services, has just built a new W&L-specific application for the iPhone and iPad, and the University's redesigned Spring Term gets an assist. Jeff built the app while auditing the spring term course taught by Simon Levy, associate professor of computer science, in which students […]
As Hatton Smith tells the story, he got his start in the family business, Royal Cup Coffee, by decree: "My mother forced my brother to hire me." He joined the company in 1973, right after graduating from Washington and Lee. That is one of the stories you'll find in an entertaining and informative piece about […]
During the recently completed spring term at Washington and Lee, Nathaniel Goldberg’s students in Philosophy 375 explored the philosophy of time travel: the philosophical possibility and implications. Through the miracle of film, you can join their time-travel explorations. For their final project, the students created their own time-travel movies, and all four are available on […]
When the economy was heading down and advertising firms were losing clients left and right, Richmond’s Big River Advertising was going in the opposite direction. The company’s president, Fred Moore, of the Class of 1980, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch of their Navy SEAL approach: “We’re small, but we’re effective.” Read the recent feature story on […]