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Belinda Childress Anderson (born June 21, 1954) is an American academic administrator who served as the 11th president of the Virginia Union University from 2003 to 2008. She is its first female president. Anderson was later dean of the Norfolk State University college of liberal arts and a professor of history and interdisciplinary studies.
The institution was founded on September 18, 1935, as the Norfolk Unit of Virginia Union University. [5] Eighty-five students attended the first classes held in 1935. Mr. Samuel Fischer Scott, an alumnus of Virginia Union and Portsmouth native, served as the first director with the primary focus of maintaining the solvency of the scho
The two wings comprising GOB–South were converted to upscale apartments in 2002, [5] while GOB–North is the home of the Roanoke Higher Education Center. [6] The Passenger Station was converted into offices when passenger service ended in the city in 1971, and was vacant from 1992 until being purchased by the Center in the Square foundation ...
William "Dick" Price Football Stadium is a 30,000-seat, multi-purpose stadium located on the campus of Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. [2] It opened in 1997. [2] The home of the Norfolk State Spartans football team, it was named in honor of former athletics director and head football and track coach Dick Price. [2]
It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanoke is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of the Virginia–North Carolina border and 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Washington, D.C., along Interstate 81.
North Cross School is an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory day school in Roanoke, Virginia for children from age three to twelfth grade. The school was founded in 1944 in Salem, Virginia .
Lucy Addison High School was an all-African American high school founded in 1928 during Jim Crow racial segregation in Roanoke, Virginia.. Named after Lucy Addison, a pioneering African American educator and first principal of the segregated Harrison School, Lucy Addison High School became Roanoke's second all-African American secondary educational institution. [1]
Raleigh Court is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in southwest Roanoke along U.S. 11 (Memorial Avenue/Grandin Road). It borders the neighborhoods of Greater Deyerle on the west, Wasena on the east, Cherry Hill, Mountain View and Norwich on the north and Franklin-Colonial and Grandin Court on the south. [1]