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==Events==  
==Events==  
At the 1938 commencement exercises in June, the University officially dedicated [[Alderman Library]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/six-moments-uva-history-documented-newly-expanded-digital-archive|title=SIX MOMENTS IN UVA HISTORY, AS DOCUMENTED BY NEWLY EXPANDED DIGITAL ARCHIVE|last=|first=|publishdate=June 23, 2016|publisher=UVA Today, THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=Feb. 10, 2021}}</ref>
At the 1938 commencement exercises in June, the University officially dedicated [[Alderman Library]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/six-moments-uva-history-documented-newly-expanded-digital-archive|title=SIX MOMENTS IN UVA HISTORY, AS DOCUMENTED BY NEWLY EXPANDED DIGITAL ARCHIVE|last=|first=|publishdate=June 23, 2016|publisher=UVA Today, THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=Feb. 10, 2021}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title= Jefferson’s Clock To Tick Off Hours Again After Long Silence|url= http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2756891/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2756893/5457.5/849/1/1/0 |author=Staff Reports|pageno=1|printdate= |publishdate= Monday January 31, 1938|accessdate=August 19, 2022, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm}}</ref>
==Deaths==
==Deaths==
 
*[[July 3]] &ndash; [[Mary-Cooke Branch Munford]] dies in [[Richmond]] and is later buried at Hollywood Cemetery. An individual who had devoted much of her life to activism for women's rights, civil rights, women's suffrage, and education in Virginia, Munford was the namesake for Munford Hall, a building that served as the [[University of Virginia]]'s first female dorm and today composes a part of the school's International Residential College.
*[[September 15]] &ndash; [[Fredrick W. Twyman]], sixty-six, former mayor, a member of the present city commission, and long a leader in civic and commercial development, died at 10:35 o’clock this morning at his home on Rugby Road, after an extended illness.
==Images==
==Images==
 
==References==
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Events

At the 1938 commencement exercises in June, the University officially dedicated Alderman Library.[1]


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Deaths

  • July 3Mary-Cooke Branch Munford dies in Richmond and is later buried at Hollywood Cemetery. An individual who had devoted much of her life to activism for women's rights, civil rights, women's suffrage, and education in Virginia, Munford was the namesake for Munford Hall, a building that served as the University of Virginia's first female dorm and today composes a part of the school's International Residential College.
  • September 15Fredrick W. Twyman, sixty-six, former mayor, a member of the present city commission, and long a leader in civic and commercial development, died at 10:35 o’clock this morning at his home on Rugby Road, after an extended illness.

Images

References

  1. Web. SIX MOMENTS IN UVA HISTORY, AS DOCUMENTED BY NEWLY EXPANDED DIGITAL ARCHIVE, UVA Today, THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, June 23, 2016, retrieved Feb. 10, 2021.
  2. Web. Jefferson’s Clock To Tick Off Hours Again After Long Silence, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, Monday January 31, 1938, retrieved August 19, 2022, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm. Print. page 1.