Last May we blogged about the Campus Kitchen project at Washington and Lee in the online True Hero competition. Enough folks responded to the request to vote for CKWL that the project won $1,000. The competition has begun anew, and you are again invited (i.e., urged) to log on and cast a vote for CKWL. […]
Ok, so we're a little late on recommending a book of Halloween stories by alumnus Douglas Clegg. But better late than never. Halloween Candy: 3 Tales of Horror is actually available for free online here. But one you visit Doug's Web site, you'll find a fascinating array of material about his book, include YouTube book […]
Two panels of attorneys, reporters, and pro sports executives will explore issues of sports, the law and the media during the third annual Reynolds Media, Courts and Law Symposium at Washington and Lee University on Nov. 11-12.
Washington and Lee University’s Community Grants Committee would like to remind the community of its 2009-10 proposal evaluation schedule. Community Grants Proposals may be submitted at any time but are reviewed semiannually: at the end of the calendar year and at the end of the fiscal year. The deadline for submitting a proposal for the end of the 2009 calendar year is Monday, November 16, 2009.
In case you missed it, Washington and Lee was well represented in Sunday's Washington Post. W&L law professor Robin Fretwell Wilson authored an opinion piece on page C-7 that examined the bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia. She's co-editor of the book "Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts." You […]
Kyle Overstreet '02 was unmasked in a New York Times blog on Thursday as the actor who played the world's fastest nudist in a marketing campaign for Zappos.com. Kyle, a psychology major at W&L and a fullback on the Generals football team, landed the part of the nude runner who streaked around New York "clad […]
This Saturday, Washington and Lee's Dining Services will provide students and their families with a taste of home cooking when they prepare three recipes submitted to the Recipes from Home contest by parents of W&L first-year students.
Skip Lichtfuss, a three-time lacrosse All-American at Washington and Lee and a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame, has just signed on for a new challenge — he'll launch the new lacrosse program at Hanover College in Indiana. According to the release from Hanover, Skip will spend this year recruiting and the Panthers […]
The October edition of Teaching Music, which is published by the National Association for Music Education, prominently features a photograph of Washington and Lee's 65-piece University Wind Ensemble, and the backdrop is definitely not the Colonnade. The photo was taken last spring when the group toured and performed in Egypt. According to Barry Kolman, associate […]
Sally P. Lawrence, of Greenwich, Conn., joined the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University on Oct. 22, 2009, during the board's fall meeting.
Lesbians, sex and incest, oh my! The 2009 Flournoy Playwright Festival features the works of Lucy Thurber, including Where We're Born, which focuses on life in a small, working-class town, where "family relationships are maintained by a delicate balance between desire and dependency." Where We're Born runs from Thursday to Saturday, Nov. 5-7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Keller Theatre.
After playing quarterback for four years down the street at Virginia Military Institute, Bob Mitchell entered law school at Washington and Lee in 1962. While he was in law school at W&L, Bob coached the VMI freshman team. A few weeks ago, Bob was featured in a story in the Washington Times, which was taking […]
Washington and Lee University journalism professor Toni Locy, who spent 25 years covering legal issues for major newspapers, has created a course based on some of the great trials in American history.
Jayson Blair, who was at the center of a major journalism scandal as a New York Times reporter in 2003, will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University’s 48th Journalism Ethics Institute on Friday, Nov. 6. The title of Blair’s talk is “Lessons Learned.” The public is invited to the presentation at 5:30 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater, Elrod Commons.
The latest issue of Chicago Lawyer has a Q and A with Washington and Lee law alumna Carrie M. Risatti of the Class of 1999. Carrie is a prinicpal with the Chicago law firm, Much Shelist where she is a member of the firm's real estate practice. In the Chicago Lawyer article, Carrie recalls working […]
Ollie Cook, a 1960 graduate of Washington and Lee, recently advanced to the quarterfinals in his age group, 70 and above Singles Diamond Master Division, of the Waterford Crystal World Handball Championships in Portland, Ore. Ollie, 71, an attorney who is currently of counsel with the Peabody, Mass., firm Smerczynski & Conn, was one of […]
Last April, we blogged about Dr. Harry Neel, a member of the Class of 1928 who was featured in a story that appeared in the Albert Lea Tribune in Albert Lea, Minn. Sadly, the same newspaper reported that Harry died on Wednesday after suffering a broken hip on Sunday. Here's a tribute to Harry published […]
David Hanson, a 2000 graduate and an all-conference shortstop for the Generals' baseball team, likes to get to the source of things. That, at least, is what David told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer about his decision to paddle a canoe down the Chattahoochee River from Helen, Ga., in the northern part of the state to Florida's […]
If you haven't begun watching the new Wall Street Journal video feature, the News Hub, you're missing the anchoring skills of Washington and Lee alumna Kelly Evans, Class of 2007 and an economics writer for the Journal. Considering this is a newspaper and not a TV network, The Hub is a pretty ambitious undertaking, not […]
Caesar Andrews, Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at Washington and Lee, will discuss "Journalism's Best Hope: Talent" in a public lecture at 5 p.m. on Nov. 4 in the Stackhouse Theater of the Elrod Commons.
In his new book, The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity, Washington and Lee University journalism professor Doug Cumming argues that what distinguishes journalists who got their start in the South is their primary motivation: less a matter of an informed citizenry and more a question of finding a literary outlet.
A new study by a Washington and Lee University professor shows that consumers do not distinguish between officials seals of approval and licensing agreements in which nonprofits lend their names and logos to a company for use in advertising.
Washington and Lee music professor Terry Vosbein's new CD, "Progressive Jazz 2009," has been getting strong reviews since its recent release. Release by Max Frank Music, the CD, which features the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra and was recorded earlier this year during a concert at the University of Tennessee, pay tribute to big band leader Stan […]
In 2007, Washington and Lee alumnus Michael Kirshbaum was dying. He suffered from an auto-immune disease of the bile ducts called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis that had poisoned his liver for 13 years. Then, on June 19, 2007, he received a liver transplant that saved his life. Now, Michael, a member of the Class of 1971, […]
Washington and Lee University professor Domnica Radulescu was awarded the Library of Virginia's 2009 fiction prize for her novel, Train to Trieste, during a banquet in Richmond on Saturday, Oct. 17.
Back in April we blogged about the poetry of Washington and Lee alumna Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon of the Class of 1993. Now we can report that Lyrae has just been named a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry for Open Interval, her latest book of poems. On the National Book Foundation Web site, […]
Kate Shellnutt, a 2008 graduate of Washington and Lee, is currently pursuing her master's degree at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, and she's found a particularly interesting way to combine her two undergraduate primary interests — journalism and religion. In fact, you may have read one of Kate's stories in a major newspaper already. In […]
Pam Luecke, the Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism at Washington and Lee University, will address a workshop for journalists on covering economic issues on Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Richmond.
The Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee is nothing if not resourceful. Take, for instance, what CKWL coordinator Jenny Sproul did back in August when she received a donation of chicken feet. Rather than turning up her nose at the unusual gift, Jenny learned how to make chicken stock out of the feet. More recently, […]
Richard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University, will give a lecture in the Johnson Lecture Series at Washington and Lee University on Monday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Millhiser Moot Court Room in the Law School.
Some of us remember watching Kevin McClatchy on the basketball court, not the stage. During his undergraduate days at Washington and Lee, McClatchy, a 1985 graduate, was a guard who captained the Generals in the 1984-85 season and majored in journalism. That was then. Now he's a veteran of stage and screen with an impressive […]
The Autumn 2009 issue of Kappa Alpha Theta magazine features a wonderful article on Washington and Lee alumna Alexandra Schaerrer of the Class of 2002 and her work with The School of St. Jude in Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa. The piece refers to Alexandra's work with Head Start during her undergraduate days at W&L, quoting […]
So maybe this is yet another reason that Budget Travel has tagged Lexington as one of its 10 coolest small towns. On Saturday, Lexington is staging its Second Annual Plein Air Paint Out. The term "plein air" comes from the French en plein air, meaning "in the open air." The Impressionists were particularly interested in […]
As one of the guests at Washington and Lee's 250th anniversary celebration in May 1999, Kitty Dunlap received a small pot containing a spruce seedling from the Christmas tree farm at Skylark, W&L’s property on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The symbolic seedling, as Kitty remembers, was to remind everyone to pay attention to their roots. […]
Washington and Lee senior Hiba Assi is featured in the current issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, in a story about the Hope Fund, a program that provides scholarship funding for Palestinian refugees to study in the United States. As the story in O explains, Hiba is one of six daughters of a family from […]
Is the level of political discourse any different now than in years past? Are the word angrier? Is the media more obtrusive? Has the competition between political parties made the president's job impossible? During a fascinating panel discussion that was co-hosted by Washington and Lee and held at the University of Virginia's Miller Center last […]
As we have noted in the past, Domnica Radulescu's debut novel, Train to Trieste, has already been recognized with numerous honors and lots of positive reviews. Now the novel is a finalist for the annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Competing in the fiction category, Domnica, professor of romance languages, is one of three finalists […]
As a dentist, Bob Gatling of the Class of 1972 has seen his share of teeth close up. But one day last month he was shocked at the sight of the teeth of the 13-foot, 800-pound alligator that he and his buddies had just pulled into their boat on the St. Johns River near Palatka, […]
Scott Broom's particular brand of reporting is generally known as "backpack journalism"— the notion being that a reporter carries everything from a pencil to a laptop to a video camera and takes a story from start to finish with the tools in his backpack. Scott's been doing just that with a great deal of success […]
The College of Idaho is inaugurating Washington and Lee alumnus Marvin Henberg as its 12th president today in Caldwell, Idaho. No doubt, those who knew Marvin during his student days when he was known as Swede and served as student body president and won a Rhodes Scholarship would be quick to tell the folks at […]
The American Bar Association Journal has embarked on a cool new project that is anything but buttoned down. It's called the Legal Rebels Project, and it's designed to profile 50 innovators and the innovations that they're undertaking to remake the legal profession in response to the economic meltdown. The project is using lots of social […]
As a Washington and Lee student in the late 1990s, one of Jagger Harvey's favorite courses was an environmental studies class then taught by current W&L President Ken Ruscio. Today Jagger, a biology, natural sciences and mathematics major in the Class of 1998, is applying some of those early lessons to his current career as […]
With health care reform the center of contentious debate these days, Washington and Lee law professor Robin Fretwell Wilson discussed a different aspect of health care — bioethics and research involving human subjects — today when she appeared on the National Public Radio talk show, Virginia Insight. You can listen to the program above. Wilson […]
The 139th anniversary of the death of Robert E. Lee will be observed on Monday, Oct. 12, when the Lee Chapel and Museum at Washington and Lee University presents a lecture by noted Civil War historian Gary Gallagher at part of its yearly Remembering Robert E. Lee program.
The October issue of Budget Travel magazine has a feature on America's 10 Coolest Small Towns. Lexington is right there between Cayucos, Calif., and Beaux Bridge, La. What constitutes cool in the magazine's view: "Every now and then, you stumble upon a town that's gotten everything right—great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. […]
Each week on Forbes.com, CEO and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes conducts a one-on-one video interview with "the investment world's most influential strategists, forecasters and money managers." This week Washington and Lee alumnus and trustee Warren Stephens took a turn answering Forbes' questions. Warren is a 1979 graduate who is president and CEO of Stephens, Inc., an […]
If you're up for some bloody humor, the early reviews promise that two Washington and Lee actors, Rob Mish, director of the Lenfest Center, and senior Kevin Mannerling, who are performing this weekend in the Lime Kiln Theatre production of Dracula or How's Your Blood Count, both give boffo performances. Rob plays two separate roles […]
When she graduated from Washington and Lee in 2007, Liane Carlson won a distinguished Fulbright grant to study in Germany. After that year abroad, she returned to enter graduate school at Columbia University, where she’s pursing her goal of earning a Ph.D. in religion with an emphasis on the philosophy of religion. Liane got a […]
Journalist and U.S. health care expert Shannon Brownlee will deliver the opening address of this year's Johnson Lecture Series at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the Stackhouse Theater. Brownlee's talk is titled "After Reform: How We Can Transform Medicine, Improve the Nation's Health, and Avoid Going Broke."
Bruce Rider of the Class of 1966 is an inveterate letter-to-the-editor writer. And he gets published a lot. Until recently, it wasn’t always easy for Bruce to read his own letters once they were printed, because of his deteriorating eyesight as the result of damaged retinas. But now that Bruce has an Amazon Kindle, he […]
William Hoffman ’53, the acclaimed fiction writer and the recipient of a 1995 honorary degree from Washington and Lee, died on Sept. 13, in Farmville, Va. He was 84. Among his 14 novels, four short-story collections, one play and numerous published stories is the novel Tidewater Blood, which won the Hammett Prize for literary excellence […]
The Summer 2009 edition of W&L: The Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine should be arriving in mailboxes shortly if it hasn't already. (A mailing house error delayed delivery of the issue.) You can, as always, view the entire contents of the magazine on line, and you can also view several individual features on line as […]
Michael Applebaum, a 1990 Washington and Lee alum, won an Emmy Award last weekend when the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honored the creative arts in a ceremony in Hollywood. Applebaum is a veteran cinematographer who has been behind the camera for seven seasons of The Survivor and had previously been an Emmy nominee […]
The third-floor TV studio in Reid Hall got a major makeover during the summer, and viewers of programs produced in the studio will notice a vastly different backdrop for Rockbridge Reports as well as other programs shot in the studio, including W&L Sports Weekly. A three-year, $1.75-million grant rom the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation also […]
Four Washington and Lee athletes wee honored last week with induction into the Hall of Fame. The new inductees are: Gibby McSpadden, wrestling, Class of 1956 Glenn Kirschner, football, Class of 1984 Rebekah Prince, swimming, Class of 1996 Nathan Hottle, water polo and swimming, Class of 1997 The athletes were honored at a banquet on […]
On this eighth anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks members of the Washington and Lee family can pay tribute to Commander Robert Allan Schlegel, a 1985 alumnus of W&L who was killed at the Pentagon, and James Andrew Gadiel, a 2000 alumnus who was killed in the World Trade Center, by signing the guest book […]
Washington and Lee University has been awarded a $200,000 accelerator grant as part of the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility.
Classes start at Washington and Lee today, so W&L junior Marshall Olszewki is back in Lexington after spending an interesting weekend in Ulm, Germany, where he won a bronze medal in the world competition for Lei Tai — full-contact Kung Fu fighting. We wrote about Marshall earlier this year, when he won his division at […]
Washington and Lee University President Kenneth P. Ruscio challenged members of the W&L community to renew their commitment to the values that he said are at the heart and soul of the University during his convocation address that officially opened W&L's 261st academic year.
What, exactly, is Washington and Lee alumnus Brian Castleberry of the Class of 2004 doing in Rwanda? He figured you might ask. So his fascinating blog, titled A Thousand Hills and a River, has a page devoted to "What Am I Doing Here?" The short answer is that Brian, who majored in economics and mathematics, […]
A panel of distinguished academics and journalists will examine questions of partisanship and the Obama presidency in a program co-sponsored by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, Washington and Lee University, and the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation on Oct. 2 at the Miller Center in Charlottesville.
Louis Fisher, Specialist in Constitutional Law with the Law Library of the Library of Congress will deliver the University's Constitution Day address at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Stackhouse Theater. All members of the University community and the public are welcome. The title of Fisher's Talk is "Judicial Supremacy: Neither the Intent nor the Reality."
The National Law Journal leads its story about legal education reform with the Washington and Lee School of Law's new third-year curriculum. Here's a link to the story titled "Reality's Knocking." Among the other schools that were cited for new law curricula are UCLA, Indiana University, Duke, and the University of California at Irvine. But […]
On Saturday as the 473 members of Washington and Lee's Class of 2013 picked up their room keys and hauled their belongs into their residence halls, several paused long enough to say why they had chosen W&L into the lens of a Flip Cam. There were no real surprises with the answers: beautiful campus, welcoming […]
Washington and Lee University welcomed 473 members of its Class of 2013 to the campus on Saturday, Sept. 5, for the start of a five-day orientation.
The North Carolina Bar Association has honored Washington and Lee law alumnus Walt Hannah of the Class of 1950 with the dedication of the Walter L. Hannah Justice Fund. Walt ws the first associate of the Greensboro firm, which was called King, Kleemeier & Hagan when he joined in 1955. As the article in the […]
About 150 entering Washington and Lee first-years dropped their belongings off in Lexington on Sunday and joined up with 40 upperclass leaders to head out on The Leading Edge, the University's pre-orientation program. Leading Edge has two tracks: Volunteer Venture and Appalachian Adventure. In the case of the latter, students are either backpacking or backpacking […]
The Lettie Pate Evans Foundation has given Washington and Lee University $1 million toward the renovation and restoration of Newcomb Hall-the first of the historic Colonnade buildings to undergo the extensive improvement planned for all of them.
Faculty and administrations from 29 liberal arts colleges from around the country along representatives of three national educational organizations will gather at Washington and Lee University this month for a two-day conference on the role of faculty at liberal arts colleges.
