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MAC to Millennium, University of Maryland Archives
WAM
(Workstations at Maryland) Labs (2004)-there are 287 computers and
11 printers in Workstations At Maryland (WAM) facilities on campus
Washington Hall-constructed in 1940; named for Washington County, Maryland
Wasserman Library-College of Library and Information Services library; located in Hornbake Library, South Wing; named for Paul Wasserman, founding dean and professor of the College of Library and Information Services
Water, bodies of-there are two catch basins and four fountains on campus; Paint Branch Creek also travels through the northern portion of the university's acreage, and Guilford Run flows along part of the southern border.
Water Polo-The women's water polo squad will begin varsity competition in spring 2004 in the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC). As a club team facing intercollegiate competition, the water polo team finished ninth in the United States in 1998.
Waterways-a number of campus buildings are named for rivers and other bodies of water in the state of Maryland, including the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac, Patuxent, and Severn rivers
Weinermobile-May 2001 graduate LaToya Morgan is the first Terrapin known to have driven the Oscar Mayer company's 27-foot-long Weinermobile. Ms. Morgan, a communications major, will be on the road with the Weinermobile from summer 2001 to summer 2002, traveling an average of 500 miles per week.
White, Charles E., Memorial Library-constructed in 1975; located inside the Chemistry Building; named for Charles E. White, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry
Wicomico Hall-constructed in 1954; named for Wicomico County, Maryland
Williams, A. V., Building-constructed in 1988; named for Albert Vaughn Williams, road contractor and alumnus, class of 1917
Willow oaks (2004)-69 of these trees line McKeldin Mall.
Wishing Well-located on the grounds of the Rossborough Inn.
W.M.U.C.-among the oldest campus radio stations in the world; established in 1937; located in the South Campus Dining Hall.
Women students-the 1917 Reveille, as the
yearbook was then known, touted Elizabeth Hook and Charlotte Vaux as the
first women to matriculate officially at the University of Maryland in
1916; Miss Hook received a B.S. in entomology in 1920 and Miss Vaux a
two-year degree in agriculture in 1918; evidence recently uncovered in
the files of President Harry Clifton Byrd, and confirmed in a commencement
program, identifies an earlier bachelor's degree recipient, Grace B. Holmes
in 1919; unlike Miss Hook, Miss Holmes did not spend her entire collegiate
career in residence at the university, so Miss Hook is usually recognized
as the first female to graduate with a four-year degree.
The first female student to attend classes at the Maryland Agricultural College was probably Flora Iris Darling who took the short course in floriculture in 1907.
Woods Hall-constructed in 1948; named for Albert
F. Woods, president of the Maryland Agricultural College and University
of Maryland, 1917-1926
Worcester Hall-constructed in 1959; named for Worcester County, Maryland
Wrestling-first organized in 1938; became a varsity sport in 1940; national and conference powerhouse in the 1950s and 1960s
