Virginia Western Community College’s Radiography Program celebrated 50 years of graduates at a reunion program, “Decades of Excellence,” on Friday, May 31.
Attendees from those five decades reminisced over displays from the College and program archives with past pinning ceremony programs, newspaper clippings and framed photos. Radiography Program Head Susan Nolley led tours to show alumni who remembered Anderson Hall what the program’s classroom and laboratory space looks like in the Fralin Center for Science and Health Professions.
A common thread among speakers and attendees was praise for the bedrock of the program, its succession of directors: John Lamanca from 1971-1976; the late Rita David from 1976-1994; Shirl Lamanca from 1994-2012; Mary Loritsch from 2012-2015; and Nolley, from 2016 to the present.
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