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Black Alumni Weekend

Black & White Dance – 1980 Keepsake Photo

Shawn Grain Carter

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Black Excellence Personified!!!!!

1st BAW circa 1985 for Shawn and her daughter!

Shawn Grain Carter

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Black Pride!

BAW circa 1989 Sorors

Shawn, Deborah, Elaine attending AKA Sorority Reception

Shawn Grain Carter

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Black Legacy & Perseverance!

First Year Photo circa 1978

Shawn Grain Carter

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Black Excellence Personified!

 

2002 Winterball at the Double Tree Hotel in Charlottesville

Sabrina Ricks

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Interpersonal relationships and feeling like I belonged at UVA

2003 Winterball at the Double Tree in Charlottesville

Sabrina Ricks

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Interpersonal relationships and feeling like I belonged at UVA

2003 – John Legend gave a FREE concert at UVA and sold burned copies of his “Get Lifted” CD

There may have been 10-15 of us in attendance.

Sabrina Ricks

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Interpersonal relationships and feeling like I belonged at UVA

 

2001 – Halloween at the Woody Dorm

Sabrina Ricks

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Interpersonal relationships and feeling like I belonged at UVA

2002 – UVA Winterball

Reagan, Jobila, and Sabrina at Double Tree Hotel in Charlottesville

Sabrina Ricks

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Interpersonal relationships and feeling like I belonged at UVA

 

First Year Dorm Dobie-Fall 1989

Days filled with laughter, playing spades and fun!

Kelley Hodge

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Laughter, friendship, leadership and love

Kappa Diamonds Spring 1991

Jacinta Topps

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Family

Ballroom in Newcomb Hall 1979

The Muntu Dancers and I did the show The Wiz. I was the lion. We got a standing ovation for our show.

Susan Waldron

What does the BAW community mean to you?
BAW community means to me a fun and memorable event to reconnect with friends and classmates that attended UVA.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Best Line Ever – 1980 “Baby Blue”

Deborah Stroman

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Respect. Loyalty. Inspiration.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. (BAW 2017)

Deborah Stroman

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Respect. Loyalty. Inspiration.

 

Phi Beta #5 Family Forever

Mike Williams & Debby Stroman

Deborah Stroman

What does the BAW community mean to you?
Respect. Loyalty. Inspiration.

Class of ’98

Nicole Haskins

 

DJ Smitty D DJing the BAW opening party in 2022 at Alumni Hall

The BAW community means my chosen family. A community of people who love, laugh, worship, and pray together. A community of people linked together through generations by virtue of their unique experiences at the University of Virginia