2008 Awards
William M. E. Rachal Award
Best overall article in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 2008
Caroline E. Janney, "'One of the Best Loved, North and South': The Appropriation of National Reconciliation by
LaSalle Corbell Pickett" vol. 116, no. 4
Past Rachal Award Winners
C. Coleman McGehee Award
Best article by a graduate student in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in
2007–8
John A. Ragosta, "Fighting for Freedom: Virginia Dissenters' Struggle for Religious Liberty during the American
Revolution"
Past McGehee Award Winners
Richard Slatten Award
Excellence in Virginia biography in 2008
James R. Sweeney, ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (University of
Georgia Press, 2008)
Past Slatten Award Winners
President’s Awards for Excellence
Outstanding service by VHS staff in 2008
Jennifer M. Guild, media relations specialist
L. Paige Newman, assistant archivist
Katherine S. Wilkins, reference librarian
Lora Robins Award
Leadership, foresight, and generosity in collecting the evidence of Virginia’s history in 2008
William R. Berkley
Past Robins Award Winners
Howson W. Cole Award
Long and dedicated service
Lawrence I. Steed, Virginia House
Patricia Rodman and Martin Kirwan King Volunteer of the Year Award
Outstanding service in 2008
Ethel Mezger, Education Department
Brenton S. Halsey Award
Excellence in teaching in 2008
Lindsay Crump Porzio, Bon Air Elementary, Chesterfield County
Bobby Chandler Student Award
Outstanding high school history student in 2008
Leah Tams, Clover Hill High School, Chesterfield Country
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