Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Abstract Lucy Lee Lancaster was born in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1905 and lived there until she died in 1989. She was one of the first women admitted to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (popularly known as VPI), and after graduating in 1925, she went on to earn her MLS from Columbia University Library School. She worked at the VPI library for the rest of her career. The Lancaster papers contain biographical materials, family papers, genealogy research,...

Dates: 1915 - 1989

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Lane Hall, Virginia Tech

Collection — Frame 1

Identifier: Art-096

Scope and Contents

unframed watercolor; not VTF number

Dates: n.d.

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Records of William E. Lavery, Third Executive Vice-President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute,

Collection

Identifier: RG-04-03

Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence and other official records of Lavery during his year as Executive Vice-President before becoming President of the University. Collection includes materials concerning budget matters, Board of Visitors, Computing Center, Computer Science, Community Colleges, each of the Colleges, Building Committee, Institutional Research, Task Force for Innovative Approaches to Instruction, University Council and Commissions, V.P.I. Industry Center, and Virginia Public...

Dates: 1968 - 1974

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

Records of the Office of the President, William E. Lavery,

Collection

Identifier: RG-02-12

Abstract

William Edward Lavery (1930-2009) was president of Virginia Tech from 1975 to 1987. The collection contains mainly incoming and outgoing correspondence (1975-1987) concerning college activities and issues of Lavery's administration including admission and records; commencement exercises; inaugural activities; homecoming; the Alumni Association; faculty and student affairs; speeches and speech material.

Dates: 1975 - 1987

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech

John A. N. Lee Papers,

Collection

Identifier: Ms-1973-005

Abstract

Correspondence, computer programs, publications, and meeting notes all relating to Lee's work for the National Bureau of Standards to develop a standard for the BASIC programming language. Included in the papers are a survey of twenty-seven descriptions of BASIC and a collection of published works relating to the language up to 1973. Also contains records (1977-1990) from the editorial staff of the Annals of the History of Computing.

Dates: 1973 - 1990

Found in: Special Collections, Virginia Tech