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Walter Stephenson Newman (July 20, 1895 – June 29, 1978) was the tenth President of Virginia Tech, serving from 1947 until 1962. Newman brought an impressive body of experience to the job when he took over as president on September 1, 1947. An alumnus with a master’s degree in agriculture, Newman had been a pioneering vocational agriculture teacher in Virginia, a member of the VPI agricultural education faculty, state assistant superintendent of public instruction, state supervisor of agricultural education, and president of the Richmond Chapter of the VPI Alumni Association. In 1925 Newman along with three other agriculture teachers at VPI, Henry C. Groseclose, Edmund Magill, and Harry Sanders, had founded a club for farm boys at the school that in 1928 became the National FFA Organization.
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20 July 1895 Woodstock, Virginia
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28 July 1978 (aged 83)
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