There are a number of recent additions to the FTP personal papers collection. The number of boxes in the collection has gone from 9 to 29 since the finding aid was originally created in October 2012. This is mainly due to a processing decision that instead of processing each collection individually we would put them […]
This post is Part 2 of 2 parts. Part 1 can be read here. Fairfax, Virginia George Mason College’s New Home in 1964 Once moved from its original location in Bailey’s Crossroads, George Mason College would now operate out of it’s new quarters in Fairfax. The first four buildings were quite spartan in […]
This post is Part 1 of 2 parts. Part 2 can be read here. Bailey’s Crossroads, George Mason’s First Campus During the summer of 1957 University of Virginia President Colgate W. Darden announced the University’s temporary leasing of an old elementary school building at Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia. This building would house the newly created University […]
In anticipation of the “Playwrights in Mind: A National Conversation” conference being held at Mason June 9-12, I thought it appropriate to introduce two playbills I find fascinating in Special Collections. Buck White and La Strada were two short-lived plays with big stars that opened and closed in December of 1969. La Strada opened and […]
Well, the answer to that often-asked question may very well be… George Mason. At 26-6, Mason has compiled its best pre-NCAA Tournament season record to date, and for several weeks the Patriots have been included in various lists of the top-30 teams in the nation. Though it fell in the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament semi-final, […]
