This past Friday, April 26 2013 marked the inauguration of Mason’s sixth president, Dr. Ángel Cabrera. The event was a ninety-minute celebration of both old and new, both tradition and innovation. Beginning with a staid traditional procession accompanied by an orchestra and choir, the ceremony ended with a rousing recessional by the Mason pep band, […]
This post is a continuation of the the original post entitled Mason Inaugurations Through the Years. Dr. Robert Krug became George Mason University’s third president although he never interviewed for it. The unexpected resignation of President Vergil Dykstra in April 1977 came as a surprise to many, but to none more so than Vice President […]
George Mason University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) and Digital Projects and Systems departments have created a new resource by which users can learn about the history of the university through narrative essays and digital objects, such as audio and video files, photographs, and textual documents. George Mason University: A History was built on the Omeka […]
What issues were on the minds of Northern Virginians during the beginning of the 1980s? A collection of public service broadcasts recorded by George Mason University’s GMU Radio offers some clues. “Frankly Speaking” was a series of weekly radio shows which featured discussions about current topics of interest. A recently-processed collection, the “Frankly Speaking” Radio […]
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 […]
