VT mourns loss of first Black student, Irving L Peddrew III yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Irving L. Peddrew III of Hampton, Virginia, died May 11 at age 88. He enrolled at Tech in 1953 and arrived only to find that he could neither live nor eat on campus. Now a dorm at Tech is named for him and for another student, a man who was the first to graduate from Tech.
Virginia Tech community mourns loss of Irving Peddrew III wdbj7.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wdbj7.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.