Virginia State Garden Week, an initiative which began in 1929, opened up historic homes and gardens to visitors across the state. Among those opened were the University’s Pavilion gardens, the President’s House, as well as Monticello and Monroe’s Ash Lawn.
This selection of important University happenings tells of an orgy in the Webb Lounge, presented by the Counselor’s Committee on Human Sexuality, as well as a reassignment of lawn residents to the McKim Nursing Dormitory after condemning the lawn for inadequate facilities and pestilence.
Renowned writer and poet Maya Angelou gave an address to a full crowd in Old Cabell Hall, in which she spoke on education, literature and her own life and writing.
The contribution will fund several “key initiatives,” including new need-based scholarships and the construction of the new Bill Gatton Technology and Data Analytics Hall.
