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The Gunston Ledger and Broadside student newspaper listing its editors and staff. O.M. Wood making repeat appearances often as a caricature.

The first appearance of O.M. Wood in the student newspaper, the Gunston Ledger, was for an editorial called "The Devil's Advocate."

Back page text reads, "Pray for Obscene Mail" not associated to any of the articles in the student newspaper. A sign of pent up newspaper editors or reference to something else?

The first issue of the Gunston Ledger in which O.M. Wood is the head editor. Taking the lead during student protests over the possible firing of Dr. James Shea jr.

A call between the president of the University of Virginia, Colgate Darden Jr. and Charles Mann Jr. calling for the creation of a new higher education institution in Northern Virginia. Darden asked Mann to head a committee to explore the feasibility…

A series of papers written by Charles Mann Jr. from his point of view depicting the years 1949 to 1957 and his work in the early years of George Mason University and its predecessor, the Northern Virginia University Center. He served as the Chairman…

Instead of creating a full-fledged branch college of NOVA, an extension center was established with the emphasis on adult education and college-level instruction. It was fought for and approved in 1949, with organized classes beginning in 1950. By…

In 1954, the Advisory Council for the Northern Virginia Center was formed to advise the University on the operation of the center and to explore possibilities of its expansion to a branch of the University of Virginia. Due to a change in rules…

At the 1956 General Assembly Session, representatives from the Northern Virginia Delegation brought forth their case to submit a resolution creating a Northern Virginia branch of the University of Virginia. Mann added a point of the branch only…

A photo of the 1985 championship winning team.