It is near impos­si­ble to get a nation, let alone the world, to com­mit to a new lifestyle unless it has been done before and proven to be suc­cess­ful. After over 50 years in real estate and devel­op­ment, Fred Spain ’58 is in the midst of show­ing the nation how it’s done.

ALUMNI PROFILE: Linda Broy­hill ’71
BY LEIGH ANN COLEMAN ’09
Linda S. Broy­hill ’71 knew exactly where she wanted to con­tinue her edu­ca­tion after high school. How­ever, the Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia (UVA) at that time didn’t allow women to attend for their first year. Her father tried to con­vince her to attend The Col­lege of William & […]

As years pass, change is inevitable for both the Col­lege as well as its grad­u­ates. How­ever, for many for­mer stu­dents who called Wes­ley home, the mem­o­ries cre­ated on cam­pus have endured the test of time. For a par­tic­u­lar group of alumni from the Class of 1959, the 50th anniver­sary of their Wes­ley grad­u­a­tion is quickly approach­ing. Three mem­bers of the class for­merly known as the “Three

Mus­ke­teers”— Sara “Sally” (Kendrick) Cavanagh, Roval­dia “Val” (Megee) Hyde and Edna “Edie” (Whit­tle) Rogers — have planned to make the trip back to Wesley’s cam­pus this Octo­ber, as they have every five years, to relive a time in each of their lives when they not only found each other but also found themselves.

“Those were pretty try­ing days at Wes­ley, par­tic­u­larly in the finan­cial sit­u­a­tion of the Col­lege, but the entire com­mu­nity was there to sup­port Wes­ley and that shows even today,” Richard Gor­don ’59 remarked about his time on cam­pus. Gor­don came to what was then Wes­ley Junior Col­lege after spend­ing a year at Duke Uni­ver­sity. For Gor­don, Wes­ley was not just a place of edu­ca­tion, but one that changed him for the bet­ter and was an impor­tant step­ping stone in his life’s journey.