Virginia Tech pays tribute to author Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was honored on Tuesday night at Virginia Tech in an event sponsored by Tech’s Center for the Arts and the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University. She was presented an award in the Pamplin Hall atrium before her appearance in Burress Hall. | Stephanie Klein-Davis, The Roanoke Times
The two-hour tribute Tuesday night to American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison may have left the author, as she said, speechless for the first time.
But the dozens of famous guests and the near-capacity Burruss Hall audience was Virginia Tech saying loud and clear something like: “We may be known for engineering and Hokie football, but now we are the $94 million Center for the Arts.”
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