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Move-In Day

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Move-In Day signifies the beginning of the academic school year for students. For freshman, it is the day where they say goodbye to living solely under their parents’ or guardians’ roof, and learn to live with people their own age. Move-In Day is typically in late August and is the first day of Freshman Orientation, which is the week before courses begin. Upperclassmen tend to move in either a few days or the day before the first day of courses.

Move-In Day, 1948
"Move-In Day," 1948, The Centennial Collection, UMW Digital Archives, University of Mary Washington.

Move-In Day, August 17, 2010
Norm Shafer, UMW Photographer, "Move-In Day," August 17, 2010, University of Mary Washington.

Sunken Road Gates

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Tagged with 1940s • 1948 • 2010s • 2014 • Class Council • Class Officers • College Ave. • College Avenue • double drive • Entrance • Gates • students • Sunken • Sunken Road • UMW

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“In 1936, financed by donations from graduating classes and private individuals (most notably Mrs. A. B. Chandler), gates were constructed below Monroe Hall at the Sunken Road entrance to the College.”¹

Although the Sunken Road Gate is not the main entrance to the University today, it is still regularly used as an entrance to the campus. The main entrance to the University is the Double Drive Gate off of College Avenue.

Class Officers In Front Of Gate, 1948 From left to right: Lois Saunier, senior class; Barbara Haislip, junior class; Carolyn Myers, sophomore class; Sara Katherine Jordan, freshman class "Class Officers In Front Of Gate," 1948, Centennial Collection, UMW Digital Archives, University of Mary Washington.	Sunken Road Gate, March 21, 2014 Jessica Reingold, "Sunken Road Gate," March 21, 2014, Personal Collection of Jessica Reingold, University of Mary Washington.

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Jepson Alumni Executive Center & Trench Hill

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Tagged with 1940s • 1948 • 1950s • 1952 • 2000s • 2010s • 2013 • 2014 • Alumni • Fountain • Hill • Jepson Alumni Center • jepson alumni executive center • Kalnen Inn • Other Buildings and Locations • structural • Trench • Trench Hill • UMW • venue

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Trench Hill was acquired by the College in 1947. The College remodeled it and designated it for academically talented students and later for the College’s first male students.¹ Eventually it became the headquarters of the Alumni Association. In 2004, it was converted to an renamed “Kalnen Inn at Trench Hill, after the alumna benefactor Elizabeth Kalnen ’37.”²

The Jepson Alumni Executive Center is 24,000-square-feet was created by incorporating an addition to Trench Hill “to create a U-shaped, tri-unit structure.”³ The gates to the Jepson Alumni Executive Center are refurbished gates from 1900 France that were commissioned by Henry Phipps, who was a business partner of Andrew Carnegie.⁴

Today, the Kalnen Inn and the Jepson Executive Alumni continue as a bed-and-breakfast and as a venue available for events.

Trench Hill, 1952 "Trench Hill," 1952, The Centennial Collection, UMW Digital Archives, University of Mary Washington.	Kalnen Inn, September 22, 2013 Jessica Reingold, "Kalnen Inn," September 22, 2013, Personal Collection of Jessica Reingold, University of Mary Washington.
Jepson Alumni Executive Center, September 22, 2013 Jessica Reingold, "Jepson Alumni Executive Center," September 22, 2013, Personal Collection of Jessica Reingold, University of Mary Washington.
Fountain at Trench Hill, July 31, 1948 Jusdon Smith Studio, "Fountain at Trench Hill," 1948, The Centennial Collection, UMW Digital Archives, University of Mary Washington.	Fountain at the Jepson Alumni Executive Center, September 22, 2013 Jessica Reingold, "Fountain at the Jepson Executive Alumni Center," September 22, 2013, Personal Collection of Jessica Reingold, University of Mary Washington.

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