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Founding Professors

Among professors active in the
preliminary planning of the Society
were Raleigh C. Minor, Richard
Heath Dabney, and Albert H.
Tuttle. First faculty members to be
elected, in addition to these,
included William Monor Life,
Charles W. Kent, John Staige Davis,
and William M. Thornton.

James M. Page, last Chairman of
the Faculty, and Edwin A.
Alderman, new first President of
the University, were early new
members. Equally impressive were
the first honorary members to be
elected from the alumni: Thomas
Nelson Page, Armistead C. Gordon,
the Reverend Arthur S. Lloyd, Dr.
Woodrow Wilson, and the Hon.
John Sharp Williams. Among the
student "founding fathers" are
many names of later distinction:
for instance, Thomas Pinckney
Bryan, of Richmond, Armistead M.
Dobie, of Norfolk, John W.
Wayland, of Harrisonburg, and
Robert H. Webb, of Suffolk.