Acting as the PA announcer for Longwood athletic events, Carlton “Skip” Maynard Spain has seen the transformation of a campus, five different athletic directors and the growth of the Longwood athletics department altogether. The Colonial Heights, Va. native moved to Farmville in 1988, where he announced ...
Hoping to spark courage within the audience, Sydney Trent spoke in Jarman Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 22 in front of about 130 people about her experiences growing up and now as a journalist. Trent is the Senior Editor of Social Issues at the Washington Post and is also the goddaughter of Barbara Johns and ...
College costs can be financially crippling, leaving some students without food after they’ve paid for textbooks, tuition, supplies and other fees. Many students consider food to be their most flexible expenditure when it comes to cutting expenses, leading them to be food insecure, according to Students ...
In an effort to bring change and awareness, Ashtyn Clark, president of Bare Naked Ladies along with Mackenzie Spicer, vice president of Bare Naked Ladies and Megan Garrett, who was asked by Clark to also share her story and a senior political science and economics double major, hosted a panel where ...
With over 50 people in attendance, Gamma Rho Lambda Chi Chapter's hosted the third annual drag show on Saturday, Nov. 10 in Jarman Auditorium in raise money in support for LGBTQ+ in the Richmond area, according to Braden Butka, a sophomore special education major. Gamma Rho Lambda is a multicultural ...
In the beginning, Bob Taylor searched for some sort of recreation to pass the time, and when he found it, it did nothing but spark a massive interest. “When I was a boy I deer hunted all the time. I’ve been there, done that. I didn’t like to play softball, don’t play golf, so I bought a canoe ...
“Just getting to know people. You never really know who you’ll meet. I’ll never forget my first year here; there was a girl sitting over by the pizza bar when we had one and she was in tears. I went over to her to see what was wrong. I asked her if she was home sick, which that was why she was ...
As new projects are always popping up on Longwood University's campus, Kim Bass, deputy director of design and construction, “knowing what needs to be done” is just part of her job. Bass said she manages and has a part in planning the design of new projects, assessing the needed scope of potential ...
About nine years ago, Betty Pelletier, moved back to Farmville, VA. from Connecticut. One of her three daughters, Melissa Pelletier, was working at Longwood and told her mother about the job opening at Dorrill Dining Hall (D-hall). Pelletier’s daughter is a Longwood graduate and now works in the Department ...
Looking to bring a positive attitude to her job as a Farmville Area Bus driver of two years and two months, Angela Barksdale said as being a single parent of four she is committed to providing for her family with two other part-time jobs at Hampden-Sydney College and Prince Edward County Schools. “I ...
Clint Wright hadn’t even moved to Virginia when he started at Longwood in 2009. “I can’t say that I had finished school, but I had decided that I was done with my undergrad experience and was looking for a job. My wife was eight months pregnant. And I didn’t really have a plan,” he said. A ...
Starting in 2016 from the largest donation in Longwood's history from alumna Joan Brock '64, the Brock Experiences Derived from the Yellowstone project, the Brock Experiences Longwood is continuing to build on its Brock Experience program, allowing students to travel to Yellowstone National Park ...
The problem of sexual violence on college campuses is not news to anybody, least of all the organizers and participants of Longwood University’s annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. According to the Association of American Universities, over 11 percent of students in higher education experience ...
As the buzzer went off, members of Longwood University’s faculty gazed at the score board with satisfaction, showing a substantial double-digit win. Longwood Hearts Basketball (LHB) is an annual game held in Willett Hall, where a team of the school’s faculty members faced off against a team of students ...
Longwood’s Got Talent is a talent show held in the Jarman Auditorium of Longwood University each year as the campus wide program for the Cox Hall and Wheeler Hall residential buildings. Each year, the event has a different theme. For the show that was held this past Friday, the theme was diversity. ...
As many, especially Christians, know, Lent is the time for observing the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, starting on Feb. 14 (Ash Wednesday) and continuing for six weeks. This time period ends three days before Easter Sunday, when Jesus is said to have risen from the dead after his crucifixion. A total ...
There's an orchestra in front of the stage, the lights are starting to dim, and a man steps on stage with red shiny shoes telling the audience they are here for a comedy. “Overall this has been the best production I’ve ever been involved with,” said second-year theatre performance ...
Longwood University put itself on the political map by hosting the vice presidential debate before the 2016 presidential election. However, that is not the only political activity on campus. There clubs for both Democrats and Republicans at Longwood, along with other political organizations like the ...
The Citizen Leadership Institute is one of Longwood University’s departments for fulfilling its goals of developing its students as citizen leaders. It is similar to many of the credited courses at Longwood, and has a similar classroom environment. Laura Parker is the assistant director of leadership ...
Some of the latest changes to Longwood University are not in the physical construction of the campus, but the new potential courses that are being made available to students. The Brock Experiences program was started in 2016 as a way of making traveling courses that will take trips all over the United ...
