Hazel R. Stamps, Viola Johnson, Hazel N. Robinson, Ida Ruth Robinson.
These nurses and others were remembered during the third community gathering at the former Richmond Community Hospital on Sunday morning.
Dear Mary DePillars: Thank you on behalf of myself, the citizens of Richmond, and history generally for your beautiful letter for a critical cause. I pray that it may help to save this valuable landmark. I join you in beseeching Virginia Union University to save the Richmond Community Hospital building.
As an alumna of Virginia Union University and a longtime resident of Richmond, I find it hard to believe, and digest, that my beloved alma mater is so callously dismissing the intrinsic value of this landmark, Richmond Community Hospital, in an historic part of the city, which includes the neighborhood that produced so many of the leaders entrenched in the uplifting of the Black community.
During his 19 years as dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Murry DePillars nearly doubled the school’s enrollment to 2,400. He grew its endowment and its