Category: UVA

Bill

William Stone Weedon (July 5, 1908 – May 13, 1984), was a scholar, university professor (philosophy, mathematics, logic, linguistic analysis), and U.S. Navy Officer.

William Weedon was an individual not bound by conventions. He was a member of the Albemarle Garden Club at a time when the club had only one other male member.[8] He won a Blue Ribbon Prize in a flower arrangement contest by placing a solitary rose inside a horse’s skull.–Wikipedia

May 4, 1972 UVA

guerrilla theater
On the 2nd anniversary of the Kent State shooting unknown individuals stage guerrilla theater on the UVA lawn.
protestor
At this point it had been four years since the My Lai massacre, but the poster “Q. And Babies? A. And Babies…” was persistent.

UVA May 24, 1981

George H.W. Bush gave UVA’s commencement address in 1981. Lots of hand made signs greeted him:
STOP U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIRD WORLD HUNGER AND TORTURE
U.S. GUNS KILL U.S. NUNS
THIRD WORLD RIGHTS
IRA
STOP THE NIXON NONSENSE
HUMAN SERVICES NOT MISSLES
Stop the Nixon nonsense? Nixon had been out of office for seven years.

The text of Bush’s speech is available. Of interest to the Charlottesville City Council, Bush spoke about the importance of basic civility in dealing with each other in public affairs.

UVA Graduation 1981

WHY DOES THE U.S.GOV’T SUPPORT THE JUNTA IF THE PEOPLE OF EL SALVADOR DON’T
HUMAN SERVICES NOT MISSILES
IRA
JOBS for PEACE not for WAR
REAGAN FIELD SCOREBOARD DOLLARS 1, DECENCY 0
U.S. GUNS KILL U.S. NUNS
VOODOO ECONOMICS…
(must be #Charlottesville)

Slow way home

schoolchildren in Okinawa
saw a movie yesterday written by UVA professor Leonard Shoppa,

poster
  In Japan, 98 percent of children walk to school every day, unaccompanied by a parent.  In the United States, just 13 percent of children walk or bike to school, and most are driven to school by a parent.

smart cae
The Slow Way Home explores this divergence, examining how American families have largely given up on keeping our streets and public spaces safe enough for children, while Japanese communities have mobilized to keep their streets safe and walkable, not only for children but for everyone in society.

Cabell Hall

troopers and Secret Service on the roof
State troopers and secret service scan the UVA graduation crowd, 1981. George Herbert Walker Bush was in his first term as Vice President. Can’t remember what he talked about that day.
I have squirrels on my roof sometime.
If you can dig up text of the speech, please send my way.