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This page from the June 8, 1926, Board of Visitors meeting notes the plan to use an additional faculty residence for a women's dormitory and the hope of expanding the existing women's dorm dining room.

This set of pages from the Septemer 18, 1921, Board of Visitors meeting notes the need for funds for a women's dormitory on campus and the use of the President's residence for such a purpose.

This is a photograph of the first five full-time women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (left to right): Mary Ella Carr Brumfield, Ruth Terrett, Lucy Lee Lancaster, Louise Jacobs, Carrie Taylor Sibold. An additional seven women enrolled…

This is an email exchange between Carmen Bolt and Glenn Bugh about a research project on Virginia Hummel.

This newsletter contains articles about the department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech, and a biography on Virginia Hummel. Attached is a newspaper with an additional article about Hummel, as well as an obituary.

Eight pages of handwritten notes from Lucy Lee Lancaster about the admission of full-time women students, early achievements, and "firsts."

Two pages of notes created by Lucy Lee Lancaster with highlights from women's history on campus.

An early history of women students on campus (note: this history does not cover much of the history of part-time women students before 1921) from about 1921 to the early 1960s.

This document provides a brief history of the home economics and human resources departments for women. It describes how certain buildings came to be, how the women lived at VPI for the first time, and what they studied, a well as President Burruss'…