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Honors Summer Research fellows announced

| May 15, 2013

Eleven Sweet Briar students have been awarded Honors Summer Research Fellowships for 2013. Among them are rising juniors Ashley Baker, Fumin Li, Dolores Gallagher, Moriah Donaldson and Amy Kvien; rising seniors Kaitlyn Cartwright, Rebecca Dalley, Anna Donko, Katlyn Fleming and Lilian Tauber; and soon-to-be graduate Jennifer Gray.

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Delta Phi Alpha inducts two new members

Delta Phi Alpha inducts two new members

| May 13, 2013

On Tuesday, May 7, Sweet Briar College’s Lambda Eta Chapter of the Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society initiated two new members. The ceremony took place during a dinner at Main Street Eatery in Lynchburg.

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Daughter’s future good return on investment

Daughter’s future good return on investment

| May 10, 2013

For Bill and Debbie Booth, college is a family matter. Since the day daughter Alyson visited Sweet Briar for the first time, the Booths’ life has been pretty much all pink and green.

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’83 alumna elected head of Maryland GOP

’83 alumna elected head of Maryland GOP

| May 9, 2013

Diana Duffy Waterman ’83, first vice chair and interim-chair of the Maryland Republican Party, was elected to fulfill the remainder of former Senator Alex X. Mooney’s term through the 2014 elections.

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Historic trust supports slave cabin preservation

Historic trust supports slave cabin preservation

| May 9, 2013

Sweet Briar College has been awarded a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation Fund to preserve and interpret a circa 1840s cabin on the College’s campus.

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Retired economics professor dies

| May 8, 2013

The Sweet Briar community was saddened to learn of the death of William “Bill” Lewis Hostetler II, associate professor of economics and director of the business management program emeritus, on Saturday, May 4, 2013.

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Sophomore collects books, prize money

Sophomore collects books, prize money

| May 7, 2013

Camille Reding ’15 is this year’s winner of the Nicole S. Basbanes ’04 Student Book Collecting Contest.

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Witherow appointed director of alumnae relations and annual giving

Witherow appointed director of alumnae relations and annual giving

| May 3, 2013

Melissa “Missy” Gentry Witherow ’80 has been appointed director of alumnae relations and annual giving at Sweet Briar College.

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Sweet Briar seeks new home for Tusculum house

Sweet Briar seeks new home for Tusculum house

| May 2, 2013

Sweet Briar College has announced it is seeking a new home for Tusculum, the mid-18th-century house of Maria Crawford, the mother of College founder Indiana Fletcher Williams.

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Librarian honored by endowed scholarship

Librarian honored by endowed scholarship

| May 2, 2013

The University of Alabama has honored Sweet Briar alumna, Kate Ragsdale, who was a longtime employee of the university’s library.

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