Meet Virginia Tech's
All-American
Donors
The All-American donors you see below do more than cheer on their favorite Hokie team. Each year, thousands upon thousands of them support excellence in the classroom, in the lab, and all across campus by making a gift to The Campaign for Virginia Tech: Invent the Future. That support plays a critical role in our continued success, and strengthens our reputation as one of the nation’s finest institutes of higher learning.
Browse their cards and read their stories here, and then find out how you can be a part of our All-American Team of donors.
Name: Shannon Clarke
Class Year: 1997
Major: Consumer Studies
Favorite Hokie Color: Orange
Why I support Virginia Tech academics: “Virginia Tech has given me so many opportunities and memories. I feel it is important to give back.”
Name: Al Bowman
Class year: 1958
Major: General Business
Favorite Hokie color(s): Maroon and Orange
Why I support Virginia Tech academics: “It’s a good school. My daughter and son in law went, and now my granddaughter is going here.”
Name: Michele Lewis
Class Year: 1996
Major: HNFE
Favorite Hokie color(s): Maroon
Hometown: Blacksburg
Why I support Virginia Tech academics: “I love VT - I graduated from grad school here and now I have the pleasure of teaching over 400 phenomenal students at VT every semester.”
Name: Becky Britain
Class year: 1997
Major: Communication, Political Science
Favorite Hokie color(s): Maroon and Orange
Why I support Virginia Tech academics: “Alumni giving is so important to ensure that programs have what they need to provide the best education to students today.”
Name: Bob Bowden
Class year: 1963 (Ph.D)
Major: Physics
Favorite Hokie color(s): Maroon
Why I support Virginia Tech academics: “Events of recent years have moved many of us to redo and rededicate our service to the university.”
Name: Wayne Robinson
Class year: 1981
Major: Finance
Favorite Hokie color(s): Maroon
Why I support Virginia Tech academics: “It’s only right that I would continue to invest in a university that gave me so much.”
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