Mike Callahan escorted his wife, Shirley, to their second prom, 53 years after escorting her to her senior prom at Anacostia High School in Washington, D.C. The 17th-annual Alpha Phi Omega prom, themed "An Evening Under the Sea" and held in the Alice Haynes room Wednesday, drew 40 senior citizens from the Richmond community, said junior Kim Pham, a brother in Alpha Phi Omega.
The Richmond Revolution, Richmond's new Indoor Football League team, signed three former University of Richmond football players to its 27-player roster for the 2010 season. Alumni Ryan Mace, Richmond College '05, Stephen Howell, RC '07, and Sherman Logan, RC '08, will make their Revolution debuts at the city's Arthur Ashe Jr.
The University of Richmond hosted the 2009 Bonner Congress for the first time since the conference's 1997 inception, giving 170 Bonner Scholars from colleges across the United States an opportunity to further their service projects and combat student apathy on their campuses. Edward Ayers, Richmond's president, and Wayne Meisel, president of The Corella and Bertram F.
Joe Hoyle, associate professor of accounting in the University of Richmond's E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, was named to Accounting Today magazine's "Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting" list for 2009. The list, which Accounting Today has been compiling for nearly 20 years, includes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and the Chief Executive Officers of firms such as KPMG and Ernst & Young, as well as other professors and professionals who have affected the field. The article noted Hoyle's Web site, cpareviewforfree.com, which provides review materials and practice exams to help people prepare for the CPA exam.
T-shirts bearing messages such as "Stop the violence" and "We will fight back" hung from a clothesline on the lawn outside the Boatwright Memorial Library on Tuesday afternoon as part of the Clothesline Project, a movement to raise awareness about violence against women. The project, which is supported once a year by Women Involved in Living and Learning, gives students affected by violence an opportunity to express their emotions on a shirt.
Students will not be able to bring their parents and siblings to a University of Richmond home football game this coming Family Weekend because of conflicts between the university's and the football conference's schedules. Officials at the university's Office of Parent Programs schedule Family Weekend two to three years in advance, wrote Lisa Van Riper, assistant vice president for communications, in an e-mail.
The cadets of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps stood in the parking lot outside of Atlantic House at 6:50 a.m.
The University of Richmond's endowment rebounded during the last six months, increasing in value by approximately 11 to 12 percent, according to university officials. That rebound followed a roughly 14 percent drop during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2009, said Srinivas Pulavarti, president of Spider Management Company, the university's investment office. The endowment's preliminary market value as of August 30, 2009, was approximately $1.5 billion, Pulavarti said. The endowment comprises approximately 40 percent hedged equities, 6 percent real assets, 30 percent absolute return, 5 percent real estate and 20 percent cash or opportunistic investments, he wrote in an e-mail. The endowment's good standing is due to investments' high hedged exposure and very little exposure to market risk, Pulavarti said.
During the first few weeks of classes, officials at the University Police Department have increased the number of patrols to prevent alcohol-related illnesses and injury among students. Contrary to campus rumors that undercover officers perform the patrols, they will be lead by officers in uniform, said Capt.
As the newly appointed interim dean of the Robins School of Business, Robert M.
