Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

University of Virginia Fall Convocation Addresses, Accession #RG-30/9/2.061, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These speeches were transferred from the University of Virginia Office of Major Events to the University of Virginia Library on various dates.

Scope and Content

The collection contains copies of seventeen addresses delivered at the University of Virginia, 1976-1998, 2002, 2015. There are speeches delivered by Bernard Mayo, 1976; Hugh Scott, 1977; William Styron, 1983; Charles McDowell, 1984; Robert M. O'Neil, 1985; Norman A. Graebner, 1986; Henry Abraham, 1987; Richard Rorty, 1991 (incomplete); J. Jackson Walter, 1992; Rita Dove, 1993; R. K. Ramazani, 1994; Richard Guy Wilson, 1995; Bonnie Guiton Hill, 1996 (draft and revised); Jahan Ramazani, 1997; Robert L. Kellogg, 1998; Janine Jagger, 2002; and, Gregory B. Fairchild, 2015

The collection also contains a tape of the Styron address.

There is also a speech delivered by University of Virginia president Robert M. O'Neil to incoming students in 1986.

The collection includes a list of convocation speakers, 1976-1998, compiled by the University of Virginia Office of Major Events.

Arrangement

The speeches are arranged in chronological order.