Dedication defines Virginia Tech Cadet Jillian Skahill as she prepares to commission into the U.S. Army
Published Saturday, May. 8, 2021, 1:08 pm
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Cadet Jillian Skahill will commission into the U.S. Army’s Military Police Corps and in November head to her first duty station in Germany. Photo courtesy of Adrea Thomas Photography.
Cadet Jillian Skahill has been an integral part of four years of Virginia Tech football games. But you probably didn’t notice her. You weren’t supposed to.
Conrad was born on August 1, 1837, in Fairfax Court House and was the son of Nelson Conrad and Lavinia M. Thomas Conrad. He attended Fairfax Academy and Dickinson College, which awarded him a bachelor’s degree in 1857 and a master’s degree in 1860. Conrad became a lay Methodist preacher and taught at a private school in Georgetown, District of Columbia, before establishing the Georgetown Institute, a boys’ school there.
After the Civil War began, Conrad made no effort to conceal his Confederate sympathies, which had attracted the attention of United States government authorities even before the institute’s commencement exercise in June 1862, when his students made fiery pro-Confederate speeches, and he ordered the band to play “Dixie,” to uproarious applause. On August 2 he was arrested on charges of communicating with the enemy and recruiting students for the Confederate army. Conrad was locked up in Old Capitol Prison and later paroled pending exchange. Many years afte
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Black Cadet Organization at Virginia Tech provides community for all cadets
Published Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, 9:43 am
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Cadets, from left, Elsie Boateng, a sophomore in Air Force ROTC majoring in biochemistry; Hannah Browne, a junior in the corps’ Citizen-Leader Track majoring in applied economic management; and Caylor Scales, a senior in the Citizen-Leader Track majoring in national security and foreign affairs, recruit new members to the Black Cadet Organization during Corps Fest in October 2020. Photo by Wesley Yeung for Virginia Tech.