Dr. Harvey poses for a photo with President Barack Obama, who delivered the commencement address on Sunday, May 9, 2010, at Hampton University’s Armstrong Stadium to thousands of cheering students and their families. Here, President Obama wears a specialty jacket in Hampton University’s colors that was embroidered with his name and that of the university.
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End of an era
Hampton University President William R. ‘Bill’ Harvey is stepping down June 30 after 44 years at the helm
Hampton University, one of the nation’s first historically black institutions, was a small struggling four-year college on the banks of the Hampton River near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay when an ambitious, young Dr. William R. “Bill” Harvey Jr. from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama was chosen as president of the institution.
