New HokieBird statue honors the Class of 2020 Published Friday, Apr. 16, 2021, 5:19 pm Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com A new HokieBird statue honoring the Class of 2020 stands at the sidewalk leading from the Visitor and Undergraduate Admissions Center to the Inn at Virginia Tech and Holtzman Alumni Center. Photo by Ryan Young/courtesy Virginia Tech. There’s a new HokieBird statue on campus, and this one honors a special group of Virginia Tech graduates — the Class of 2020. In February, several masked construction workers and administrators gathered on campus — at the sidewalk leading from the Visitor and Undergraduate Admissions Center to the Inn at Virginia Tech and Holtzman Alumni Center — to install the newest HokieBird statue.