Alumnae Relations
Hollins University
P.O. Box 9629
Roanoke, VA 24020-1629

Highlights

• Photo Gallery
• Online Photo Store
• President Gray announced a $5 million gift from Susan Gager Jackson ’68 and her husband John to establish the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins. Read more…
• Largest class in attendance: 1958 with 53 attendees – representing 36 percent of the class
• 25^th Reunion remarks given by Anne Helm Galvin ’83  
• 50^th Reunion remarks given by Wyndham Robertson ’58
• Celebration of the 20^th Anniversary of the Jamaica Service Project with a discussion by Ruth Claytor ’96 and Kelley McElmurray Pruitt ’93, a slideshow covering the last 20 years, and a reception.  
• Hollins Women Save History: four alumnae who are leading historic preservationists shared stories about their efforts for Mount Vernon, Stratford Hall, Colonial Williamsburg, and historic Charleston, South Carolina. The panelists were Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’68, Nancy Nash Campbell ’58, Brandy Culp ’98, and Stuart Lewis Smith ’58.
• Taisie Berkeley ’70, photographer, Fulbright Scholar, and great-great-granddaughter of Hollins’ founder Charles Lewis Cocke, gave a talk and slideshow of her work with India’s poorest women. Her photographs are on display in the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.
• Agnes Gant Harrison ’38 returned for her 70^th Reunion at Hollins!
• Future Reunion Dates
• Class Web sites
  
  

Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees
Serena N. Beedie ’93 – basketball
Tris Berryman Casillas ’88 – soccer
Christie Laming ’98 – fencing
Justine Bailey Lynch ’58 – multiple sports
Mary Cheek McCullough ’58 – tennis
Marcy Grill ’73 – lacrosse (posthumous)

• Previous inductees
  
  

Pat Thomas Bain Award
Kitty Clark Stroud ’58
The Bain Award is presented at reunion to the individual or group whose efforts have achieved a significant increase in Hollins Fund participation.

The Rath Award
Wyndham Robertson ’58
The Rath Award is given annually to an alumna or alumnae whose participation in the life of Hollins has been extraordinary and whose personal investment of time and effort in the institution over the years represents the very best of the Hollins spirit.

Distinguished Alumnae Award
Jane Bassett Spilman ’53, Nancy Nash Campbell ’58, Elizabeth Vann Hobbs ’58, Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’68
The Distinguished Alumnae Award honors individual alumnae who have brought distinction to themselves and to Hollins through broad and inspiring personal or career achievements; local, national or international volunteer service; or significant contributions to society.

The Class of ’58 has also raised $38,000 in gifts and pledges for the Class of 1958 Memorial Fund.  Many of these gifts have come from the families of deceased alumnae.