RBC Graduates & Graduate Books

May 2006
Food for Thought! RBC Graduates and Graduate Books @ your library^®

The Richard Bland College Commencement Ceremony
will be held on Friday, May 12 at 6pm.

The speaker for Commencement this year will be Gene R. Nichol . He is the 26th President of The College of William and Mary.

For more information, consult his online biography from The College of William and Mary web site.

The library's Graduate Books program allows proud parents, friends and relatives
to fund the purchase of books for the library in the name of an RBC graduate.

A minimum donation of $30 is made to the library by a loved one or friend of a graduating student.
The library staff orders a book in honor of the graduate.
A book plate is added to the book noting the name of the graduate, the name(s) of the donor(s), and the year of graduation from RBC.
The special RBC graduate receives honorable mention in LION (the RBC Library catalog) and on the library web site!
As a special bonus for the graduating class of 2006, the RBC graduate whose friends/family have made a donation to the library may stop by to pick up a complimentary copy of a Parks Duffey print of the campus from the Friends of the RBC Library.

In February of 2001 The Friends of the Richard Bland College Library commissioned Parks Pegram Duffey III to paint the Richard Bland College campus. For eight months Mr. Duffey visited the campus, solicited input from faculty and staff, and worked on a canvas that evolved into a painting that includes architectural renderings of buildings, whimsical remembrances of people and events, and an overall lovely depiction of the campus.

Parks Duffey print

Graduates whose family and/or friends have contributed a minimum of $30 to the RBC Library's Graduate Books program will be eligible to pick up a complimentary 27.5" x 22" Parks Duffey print of the campus.

Amy Shay & Deb Vroman with framed Duffey print

Many thanks to The Friends of the RBC Library for providing the complimentary prints by Parks Duffey, and sincere thanks to Pat Tukiendorf in the President's Office who promotes the event by mailing letters to graduating students and processes all donations to the Graduate Books program!