Farmville is a town in Prince Edward and Cumberland counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 7,473 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Prince Edward County.
Longwood University is a public university in Farmville,Virginia. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary and colloquially known as Longwood or Longwood College,it is the third-oldest public university in Virginia and one of the hundred oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Previously a female seminary,normal school,and college,Longwood became coeducational in 1976 and gained university status on July 1,2002.
Union Presbyterian Seminary is a Presbyterian seminary in Richmond,Virginia,and Charlotte,North Carolina,offering graduate theological education in multiple modalities:in-person,hybrid,and online.
Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School,in Farmville,Virginia.
John Goode Jr. was a Virginia attorney and Democratic politician. He served in both the United States Congress and the Confederate Congress,and was a colonel in the Confederate Army. He was Solicitor General of the United States during the presidency of Grover Cleveland. He was known as "the grand old man of Virginia".
WMLU is an American non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve the community of Farmville,Virginia. The station is owned and operated by Longwood University.
Willett Hall is an academic facility and previously served as a 1,807-seat multi-purpose arena in Farmville,Virginia. It was built in 1980 and was home to the Longwood University Lancers men's and women's basketball teams until 2023. On December 3,2016,the basketball court was named after former Longwood basketball player Jerome Kersey,officially making the hardwood Jerome Kersey Court.
Walter Taylor Reveley III is an American legal scholar and former lawyer. He served as the twenty-seventh president of the College of William &Mary. Formerly Dean of its law school from August 1998 to February 2008,Reveley was appointed interim president of William &Mary on February 12,2008,following Gene Nichol's resignation earlier that day,and was elected the university's 27th president by the Board of Visitors on September 5,2008. While president,Reveley continued his service as the John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence at the law school.
Elaine Cagas Quijano is an American television reporter. Formerly with CNN,she is now an anchor with CBS News.
Richard V. Hurley was the ninth president of the University of Mary Washington.
Longwood House is a historic home located at Farmville,Prince Edward County,Virginia,and functions as the home of the president of Longwood University. It is a 2+1⁄2-story,three-bay,frame dwelling with a gable roof. It features Greek Revival style woodwork and Doric order porch. Longwood House has a central passage,double-pile plan. It has a two-story wing added about 1839,and a second wing added in the 1920s,when the property was purchased by Longwood University. The house is located next to the university golf course,and since 2006,athletic fields used by the Longwood Lancers.
The United States elections of 1788–1789 were the first federal elections in the United States following the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In the elections,George Washington was elected as the first president and the members of the 1st United States Congress were selected.
Walter Taylor Reveley II served as the 18th president of Hampden-Sydney College from 1963 to 1977. Founded in 1775 with other colonial colleges,Hampden-Sydney is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in America. During Reveley's presidency,a time of significant social and political unrest throughout the country,the faculty increased by more than 40 percent,the student body grew from roughly 500 to 800 and the endowment doubled. Major construction projects,including a science center and a library addition,were completed,and the college celebrated its bicentennial. He also oversaw the modernizing of the curriculum and the integration of the College.
Patrick Finnegan was a United States Army brigadier general,and the president of Longwood University. Finnegan served 39 years in the U.S. Army,retiring in 2010 after serving as the 12th dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy. Following his Army career,he was appointed as the 25th president of Longwood University in 2010. Finnegan stepped down as president in 2012 for health reasons and returned to private life.
Scott Griffith Aldrich is an American college basketball coach and lawyer. He is the current head coach of the Longwood Lancers men's basketball team.
Reveley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jeff Eric Schapiro is an American newspaper reporter and political commentator. A New York City native,he moved to Richmond,Virginia in 1979,shortly after graduating from Georgetown University,and covered politics and policy out of United Press International's news bureau there. One of the most prominent political journalists in the state,he has worked for the Richmond Times-Dispatch since 1987,where he currently writes a twice-weekly column,and he regularly appears on radio and television. In 2015,he was honored by Virginia Commonwealth University's Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture by being inducted into their Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. W. Taylor Reveley IV,the president of Longwood University,has called him "a giant in the field of journalism in the state."
Carrie Sutherlin was an American educator and college president. She was president of Arlington Hall Junior College and Chevy Chase Junior College.
