
Women in the Barracks
Silver Gavel Award, Honorable Mention
Scribes Merit Award
In June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line of graduates who received their degrees at the “West Point of the South” included women who had spent four years at VMI.
For 150 years, VMI had operated as a revered, state-funded institution—an amalgam of Sout...
Silver Gavel Award, Honorable Mention
Scribes Merit Award
In June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line of graduates who received their degrees at the “West Point of the South” included women who had spent four years at VMI.
For 150 years, VMI had operated as a revered, state-funded institution—an amalgam of Sout...