Dr. Harvey greets singer Lionel Richie at Hampton University. While the date of this photo is uncertain, Mr. Richie flew to campus from Los Angeles at his own expense, he said at the time, to emcee Hampton University’s 125th anniversary celebration on April 1, 1993. He told a local newspaper that he and Dr. Harvey had a long-standing friendship dating back to their days at Tuskegee Institute when Mr. Richie was a student and Dr. Harvey was an administrator.
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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.
