{"id":768,"date":"2011-09-16T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T14:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=768"},"modified":"2011-09-16T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T14:57:20","slug":"a-fitting-farewell-for-wyndham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/a-fitting-farewell-for-wyndham\/","title":{"rendered":"A fitting farewell for Wyndham"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>$2 million scholarship fund in her honor<\/h2>\n<p>Wyndham Robertson \u201958 knew something was up. After all, when you\u2019ve served your alma mater as a trustee for thirty-one years, they won\u2019t just let you ride off into the sunset when you announce your plans to retire. Besides, her fellow trustees warned her to get dressed up. So when Robertson arrived with her dashing date, Chuck Whittingham, on the lawn of the library named for her on the evening of May 20, she suspected there would be a few accolades before the night was over.<\/p>\n<p>She expected to see her colleagues on the board\u2014she had spent all day with them in meetings. But then she started spotting former trustees, old friends and classmates, and then a whole delegation of her family\u2014brother Julian Robertson, sister Blanche Bacon, nieces, nephews, and their children. And this was all before she walked inside the library, where the Frances McNulty Lewis Reading Room had been transformed into an elegant dining room.<\/p>\n<p>Click an image to view larger:<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-768 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/robertson_guests.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/robertson_guests-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Wyndham Robertson farewell dinner\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/robertson_kenan.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/robertson_kenan-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Wyndham Robertson and Betty Kenan\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/robertson_niece.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/robertson_niece-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Wyndham Williamson\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/robertson_setting.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/robertson_setting-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Honoring Wyndham Robertson &#039;58\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wyndham_240x160.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wyndham_240x160-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Wyndham Robertson &#039;58\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The evening held more surprises: a loving roast from Lisa Long \u201972, Tom Kenan, Buffy Morgan \u201960, and Julian Robertson. Anne Faircloth M.A. \u201900 gave a moving tribute to the close friendship Wyndham shared with her late mother, Nancy Faircloth \u201952, and presented Wyndham with a cigarette case that had belonged to her mother, although she said in doing so she hoped not to encourage septuagenarian smoking.<\/p>\n<p>And more surprises: a frame to hold a portrait the trustees have commissioned Annette Polan \u201967 to paint of Wyndham, and the biggest news of the evening\u2014a new $2 million Wyndham Robertson Scholarship Fund and a scroll containing the names of the 200 donors who had contributed through the previous day. Others have been added to the list since then.<\/p>\n<p>It was an evening of love, appreciation, fond memories and looking ahead\u2014for Wyndham Robertson, who is taking a break after more than three decades as an active trustee, which included stints as board chair and more recently as chair of the campaign that raised $162 million; and for Hollins, which will be learning to live without her valuable day-to-day involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyndham Robertson honored for serving her alma mater as a trustee for thirty-one years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giving","tag-summer-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}