Spring 2016 Issues

Ashley Crute

Alumna named to lead University Career Services

Spring 2016

Ashley Jarrett Crute ’10 is the new associate director of career services. Crute had been an assistant director in George Mason University’s school of business since June 2012. Her first…

Megan Clark ’05 (l) is sworn in as the first African-American and the first woman to serve as commonwealth’s attorney in Prince Edward County as her mother Dr. Theresa Clark looks on. Susan O’Prandy Fierro ’94 (r) is the first woman to hold that position in Prince George County.

Two alumnae make history by winning top prosecutor jobs

Spring 2016

Two alumni recently made history by being elected the top prosecutor in their localities. Megan Clark ’05 is the first African-American and the first woman to serve as commonwealth’s attorney…

Wendi Strickland ’04 (left) and Jessee Helbert ’04, M.Ed. ’05, ‘took a leap’ to start Branches of Life.

Branching Out

Spring 2016

Friends turn caring into a career with business devoted to adults with intellectual disabilities Persons of Interest As students at Longwood, Jessee Helbert ’04, M.Ed. ’05, and Wendi Strickland ’04,…

Nationals Park,Washington, D.C.

Professional baseball serves as backdrop for upcoming alumni events

Spring 2016

If you enjoy the national pastime and getting together with fellow alums, two upcoming events are made for you. Longwood Alumni Day with the Washington Nationals will be held at…

Tracie Linden Leeper ’01 and her husband, Gard Leeper, made a $10,000 gift to Longwood’s Speech, Hearing and Learning Services in memory of their son, Jack.

Remembering Jack

Spring 2016

Alum’s gift in memory of son will help other children with developmental delays Children with developmental delays who seek help from Longwood’s Speech, Hearing and Learning Services (SHLS) have a…

Class Notes

Spring 2016

1960s Edith Withers ’67 was named Volunteer of the Year by the Northumberland Family YMCA in March 2015. She was recognized at the Peninsula Metropolitan YMCA’s annual dinner in Hampton….

In Memoriam

Spring 2016

LISTED IN ORDER OF CLASS YEAR Maude Beckham Foster ’38 Oct. 3, 2015. Mildred Gibboney Horner ’38 Jan. 3, 2016. Ivey Hale Lewis ’41 Jan. 16, 2016. Lena Butterworth Harper…

President & Mrs. Reveley at LCVA Gala 2016

From the President

Spring 2016

The pair of lead stories in this issue of the magazine connects and commemorates two deeply consequential times in the history of Longwood’s campus. The first is the “Great Fire”…

Fight Like the Devil by Dan Davis ’05, Chris Mackowski and Kristopher White book cover

In Print

Spring 2016

books by alumni, faculty, staff and friends Fight Like the Devil by Dan Davis ’05, Chris Mackowski and Kristopher White Part of the Emerging Civil War Series, this book examines…

New book shows medieval surgeons surprisingly skilled

Spring 2016

At the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403, future King Henry V was shot in the face with an arrow that lodged six inches deep into the back of his skull….