Celebrating 175 years of developing citizen leaders
We all look back fondly on our days at Longwood whether we prepared for a rewarding career, made lifelong friends or fell in love, our memories link us to the past and to other Lancers. From sunbathing on the roof of the Cunninghams to Chi Burnings, we all have something to share. So we ask you, what's your favorite memory?
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At first, the morning of September 11th seemed like an ordinary one. I had an 8 a.m. class, which was brutal for a college freshman. Not only was it early, but I also had to walk all the way from South Cunningham up the steep hill to Hull (before Brock Commons existed). Little did I […]
I lived on the third floor of the Rotunda building my freshman year. It was wonderful, I had access to the dining room, my room, and a lot of my classes without ever going outside! This was great when the snow storm came through dumping many inches of snow on us in 66. I remember […]
I lived in North Cunningham as a sophomore and main Cunningham as a junior. (Post Office was my freshman dorm-my roommate and I thought it was a mistake when we received our room assignment. Who lives in the Post Office??) When I lived in Main Cunningham, 3rd floor, most weekends were spent at U.Va where […]
My mother was Longwood class of the early 1920’s . Back then there was a lovely Mayday celebration at the amphitheater at Longwood Estate. Goodness has that ever been done again in modern times. I hate when tradition is lost!! Also, how come nobody mentioned Panty raids on girls dorms by naughty Hampden-Sydney boys back […]
I was an English major hoping to become a writer; but in the fall of 1990, I had no idea how important and influential Longwood’s music department would be to my college education. My freshman year at Longwood, I decided to tackle the “arts” requirement of my general education courses. I had a choice of […]
I lived in North Cunningham my Freshman year. The other two Cunninghams were Sophomores (Green people). As a Freshman we were Reds. We came back from dinner one night and somehow ended up with a water battle between the two groups. I don’t even remember how it got started. We had dorm mothers back then […]
Honestly, I really didn’t like Longwood very much my first two years I attended. I had reluctantly gone there because since I was a little girl and my mother had gone there (Class of 1951), All I heard about was Longwood from the time I was old enough to know what college was all about. […]
I lived in Tabb my freshman year and once the tree went up the goal was to discover the CHI Christmas Ornament. All of the girls on the hall would wait every night trying to get a glimpse of CHI and them putting ornaments on the tree. So one night we heard the chanting and […]
Living on the second floor right by the tree gave me a fantastic view of the tree and all the “Sings” around the tree. I was on Freshman Comission and we had the privilege of decorating the tree. We were really in the Christmas spirit by the time we were going home.
During the end the fall semester of my freshman year, we got a really great snow storm. I say it was really great because it was the kind that caused a delay in morning classes and was enough to play in! So, a few friends and I bundled up in what snow gear we had […]
When you send a set of close sisters to the same school, there will inevitably be differences. We quickly decided it was best to just refer to our home away from home as Longwood since one insisted it was and would always be Longwood College, while the other was just too excited to be the […]
I actually enjoyed working Thanksgiving Dinner…watching everyone else enjoy it so much, seeing everyone enjoy it with their friends, and getting to be a part of every table. It made my senior year, when I got to sit down and enjoy it myself, that much sweeter. LOVED the Baked Alaska!
Ever since the day I took a tour of Longwood as a Senior in High School (2004) I knew that I wanted to be one of the khaki-wearing, polo-shirted, name tag adorned Longwood Ambassadors. My tour guide was very animated and cheerful – just the kind of tour guide I knew I could be. However, […]
I joined SGA my freshman year as a Freshman rep and I am so glad that I did. Over the next four years I had the chance to “Dine with the Director”, serve as Class President, Lobby with Virginia21 in Richmond, represent Longwood at COSGA, attend Board of Visitors meetings, and serve on the committee […]
One early memory was that we were allowed to have a big pajama party/sleep over in the Gold room to watch the moon walk on the TV there!! Really cool!!
During Spring Weekend, my roommates and I made it to the Rotunda for a much needed brunch after a night of foolishness. We sat near the Delta fraternity.. wrong choice.. As we were eating, we saw something go through the air. It was on.. a major food fight between the Delta and some other fraternity. […]
Snow at Longwood…and I mean real snow, snow someone in VB cannot think of…that was amazing. We used to take the trays out of Dhall before they sold the trays…Sorry dining services! The year I led the history club to DC… My final color wars was my senior year and it was the first year […]
My sophomore year, I was asked to be a helper at the CHI burning and received a CHI commendation. For me, that is probably the single greatest thing that happened to me at LU. A few days later, I saw my friend Luke (CHI 2010) in Ruffner, and he gave me a bottle of CHI […]
My roommate in my sophomore year was a lovely girl named Alice Gill. She and I would go on to become life-long friends. She was a diabetic long before there were blood test kits to determine a person’s sugar level. We lived on 3rd floor North Cunningham. There was a rule that no one was […]
A few days before our graduation, my roommates and I decided that we needed photos together on Longwood’s campus. Wearing the “Longwood Alumni” shirts that we’d purchased, we spent several hours taking funny and serious shots of each other from one end of LU to the other. Of the amazing women that I had the […]
My favorite memory from Longwood was my bid day, Spring 2002. I will never forget the excitement as I put on my white tee-shirt to run to my new sisters. Little did I know those girls would become my best friends, my confidantes, and that years later we’d be each other’s bridesmaids. This is one […]
By the spring of my freshman year, I had found my niche that lasted until I graduated (and even past then). Joining Student Educators of Active Leadership (SEAL) was one of my best decisions of my life. The group of students that I met influenced me to be an even better person than I was. […]
Move in day for the class of “67 was Sept. 12, 1963. It was 85 degrees that day, ensuring that we would have a very warm welcome to Longwood and Third Floor Tabb! Most of the day was spent unloading, toting, unpacking and organizing. After bidding families good bye, and having dinner, all the girls […]
While waiting to get into the dining hall, there were often calls of “We need three” or some such number to get a table of 8. Since I came the first yera that Longwood was coed, I soon learned to be the first to grab the bowls or plates of food because if I was […]
I was a “Longwood Lady” from 1971-1974. I remember gathering with all the other students who were waiting for the doors of the dining hall (then located in Blackwell at the site of the current Blackwell Ballroom) to open at 6:00 pm for dinner. Both the lunchtime and evening meals were served family style which […]
The Saturday night, after moving in, we sat on the brick wall at the Cunninghams so that the town boys could see us. They would drive through several times whistling, yelling, some even getting out of their cars. Of course, our head mother told us not to associate with the “townies”. The Longwood Mixers were […]
Perhaps the most important thing I remember, aside from the hard work and study, and other social and student organization activities, lies in the endearing relationships experienced at Longwood. These, to me, are the most precious. They helped form me as a person and appreciate the opportunities afforded me by the whole experience. The best […]
Laying out behind Stubbs in between classes, the yummy chocolate milk in the dining hall, meeting after classes on Tuesdays (and Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays) at the Cafe, Dr. Jordan’s Archaeology classes, and hanging out in the Chapter Room…………….many days have passed since my years on campus, but not a day goes by that someone from […]
Every month “Birthday Dinner” was celebrated by having steak, baked potato and dessert was always Baked Alaska.
An amazing four years at Longwood with so many great memories; Tabb, French and Cunninghams- all gone for now! Making lifelong friends. Golf practice at the 9hole course each afternoon and losing a great parking spot each day. So many that just come flooding back. Baked Alaska, Pizza Hut, Oktoberfest.
Getting over on the campus police and getting them to issue a parking permit for a 1975 Dodge Champion 28′ Class A motor home that I would bring in ark park in the parking lot near the ball field and leave on Friday, as well as enjoying breakfast each morning at the dining hall and […]
I will always remember having meals at a table of 20. The round tables were meant to seat 10, but we somehow could always fit more. Half of my bottom would be on one chair and the other half on another chair. So much fun……
It was probably about 11PM the night before exams and a friend on my hall freshman year said she had a hunch that Chi would be leaving droppings that night. So three of us took a quick power nap and met in the hallway on the third floor of the South Hams. We started our […]
The TV soap “All My Children” was so popular that students cut classes from 1:00 to 2:00 in the afternoon. The school decided not to fight it and eliminated classes from the schedule during that time slot.
I remember the old dining hall in Blackwell, affectionately known as “upstairs” (as in “are you eating upstairs or downstairs?”). It had such a warm feeling with the wood floors (if I’m not mistaken), round wood tables and balcony seating. Even more special were the Thanksgiving dinners in there where you were served (the student […]
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