When we were in college at William and Mary in the 1960s, the alumni affairs office was in the Brafferton building, across from the President’s house on the College Yard. I think. I didn’t know any alumni and I certainly never wondered about the location of the office that dealt with alumni.
In 1972, the Alumni Association moved to this location, and the building was renamed the Alumni House. Over the years, the building was expanded to be more functional for Alumni events. In 2020, a major renovation of the building was completed, adding 33,000 square feet to the building and making it one of the largest social gathering spaces on campus.
We don’t have any memories of this newly renovated building because we haven’t actually been inside it yet. The renovation began before the pandemic and was finished during the pandemic year. I have taken a “virtual” tour of the building, and it has just begun to reopen to events over the past several months. Homecoming events will be in this building on October 5-6 of this year, and Literacy for Life is holding its Reading Between the Wines fundraiser there in October, so I’ll be there for these events.
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How nice. And the location of your brick is in a similar location to your dorm room--in your first year, I think. Kind of nice.