Winter 2019

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2019 Alumni Medallion Recipients

The highest and most prestigious award given by the Alumni Association.

Profiles By Claire De Lisle M.B.A. ’21

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There is an image that is woven into Kiya Winston Tomlin's '96 mind like a well-made garment. It's crisp and unforgettable.

By Ashley K. Speed

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Go Like You'll Stay Forever

The legacy of Coach Jimmye Laycock '70

By Ben Kennedy '05

Online Feature

125 Years of Football

By no means a complete history, but rather a high-altitude view of the great teams, players, games and coaches of the last century and a quarter of W&M Football.

By Peter M. Kalison '57

By & Large

It's a Bird, It's a Lion, It's the Griffin

During Homecoming & Reunion Weekend, William & Mary Athletics unveiled the new Tribe Plaza.

By W&M Alumni Magazine

Alumni Focus

To Affinity and Beyond

Want more William & Mary in your life? I did, and I found answers in my involvement with my local alumni chapter.

By Kirsten Shiroma Quackenbush '05
Regional Engagement Committee Chair, Alumni Association Board of Directors

From the Brafferton

Moving Forward Together

William & Mary's 326-year history is impressive. Through wars and depredations, William & Mary has risen to national recognition as a premier institution of higher education.

By Katherine A. Rowe
William & Mary President

By & Large

Splendor in the Grass

In the 1930s, disease and a deadly hurricane wiped out the eelgrass that had flourished in the shallow bays along Virginia’s Atlantic coast. The coastal waters lay barren for decades. Then along came a gardener

By Sara Piccini

Pay It Forward

Opening Doors

Virginia Mister Scholarship named after first woman law student

By David F. Morrill M.A. '87

By & Large

Provost Halleran to Step Down

After nearly a decade as William & Mary’s provost, Michael R. Halleran is stepping down at the end of the 2018-19 school year.

By W&M Alumni Magazine

By & Large

Ascending the Ranks

The Raymond A. Mason School of Business makes a big leap in the rankings

By Sara K. Eskridge

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Ground Broken

On Oct. 17, President Katherine A. Rowe and Athletics Director Samantha K. Huge broke ground on the new multi-use Tribe Field Hockey Center.

By W&M Alumni Magazine

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Together We Rise

Alumni giving is moving the university forward

By University Advancement Staff

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London to Williamsburg

Mike London was recently named the new head coach of the William & Mary football team.

By Ashley K. Speed

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Board Notes

Report from the fall meeting of the WMAA Board of Directors

By John S. Kane

By & Large

Cast Your Vote

Meet your WMAA Board of Directors nominees

By W&M Alumni Magazine

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Annual Review & Accolades

This new awards and review process is a way to honor and award regional alumni chapter/affinity group boards

By W&M Alumni Magazine

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Nominations for 2019 Honorary Alumni

This new awards and review process is a way to honor and award regional alumni chapter/affinity group boards

By W&M Alumni Magazine

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2018 Homecoming Grand Marshal

Ruth Weimer Tillar ’45 celebrated her 77th Homecoming this October and served as the grand marshal.

By Claire De Lisle M.B.A. ’21

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Inauguration and Re-Investiture

The annual Charter Day event, which will be held on Feb. 8, 2019, in Kaplan Arena at 3:30 p.m., celebrates the university’s founding by British royal charter in 1693.

By University Communications Staff

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New Name for ITPIR

The Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations, or ITPIR, has a new name: W&M Global Research Institute.

By University Communications Staff

Tribe

Rock Band of Brothers

In a special Homecoming & Reunion Weekend concert, Chip Esten ’87, P ’22, star of “Nashville,” and his band N’Est Pas played for a crowd of hundreds in the Sunken Garden.

By W&M Alumni Magazine