In 2001, the university granted the Woo Woo Alumni chapter its initial charter. HEX: #FFCC33, No official state colors are listed the state legislature's State Symbols webpage, Proposed in 2016 in honor of the musician, Proposed in 2013; motion died on the table, This page was last edited on 14 September 2020, at 21:47. Shandra Claiborne, a former Woo Woo, led the team for one year following the retirement of Johnson. In 1984 the marching band was renamed the “Trojan Explosion” under the direction of Harold J. Haughton, Sr. and the music department began to grow. West Virginia Dr. Abdullah previously served as provost and senior vice president at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla. President Abdullah is a Chicago native who is the youngest African American to receive a Ph.D. in engineering. The logo is to appear in two colors and in these pairs: PRIMARY blue (PANTONE 2728) and orange (PANTONE 158), SECONDARY blue (PANTONE 287) and orange (PANTONE 166). Until 1992, he was the only black ever elected to the United States Congress from Virginia (elected in 1888), and he was the great-uncle of the famed writer Langston Hughes. Virginia State University (VSU or Virginia State) is a historically black public land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. In the first academic year, 1883–84, the University had 126 students and seven faculty (all of them Black), one building, 33 acres, a 200-book library, and a $20,000 budget. It is accessible via Interstate Highways 95 and 85, which meet in Petersburg. This list includes graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Virginia State University. The squad focuses on community service as well as promoting school spirit. Crayola designed a crayon for the state of Utah with this color, as part of their state color collection. The two-year branch in Norfolk was added to the college in 1944; the Norfolk division became a four-year branch in 1956 and gained independence as Norfolk State College in 1969. The Virginia Cavaliers colors are Jefferson Blue and Rotunda Orange. [7] This recording was third in the series, which aspired to produce a recording each year of the works of this black composer who was a former faculty member and co-director of the Black Man in American Music Center. This is the official list for each state's colors. The navigation menu for the "About VSU" section is: Color plays a critical role in ensuring the overall impact of the University’s identity. The university has a 231-acre (0.93 km2) main campus and a 412-acre (1.67 km2) agricultural research facility known as the Randolph Farm. The university is only two and a half hours away from Washington, D.C. to the north, the Raleigh-Durham- Chapel Hill area to the southwest, and Charlottesville to the northwest. 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