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TODAY The Virginian-Pilot turns 150.For decades, we have been honored and proud to be your local news source covering and engaging the community in ways not even imaginable 150 years ago.

Who would have thought in 1865 that by the 150th anniversary The Virginian-Pilot would reach 554,200 adult readers in print weekly and have over 9.5 million page views a month on our website with about 40 percent of those coming from mobile devices?

Who would have thought that we would be engag-ing our readers not only on our own platforms but also where they are on social media?

Back in 1865, The Nor-folk Virginian (The Vir-ginian-Pilots predeces-sor) defined its mission to stimulate immigra-tion, to attract capital and to awaken the ener-gy and enterprise of our fellow citizens. Today at The Virginian-Pilot we see our role as serving as your trusted source of lo-cal news and information to inform, improve and in-spire this community.

We have helped shape this region, and you helped shape us. As we look to the future we know it is criti-cal for us to keep in mind what matters to our read-ers, to look for new ways to

re-engage this community and to include readers in the conversation.

What this means for us is developing a richer un-derstanding of our read-ers priorities, values, experiences and perspec-tives to provide news and information that resonates and helps our readers to live better lives.

Just about two weeks ago we launched Piloton-line.com on a new, respon-sive platform. With this change we have made it easier for you to access the news you care about and find the stories that every-one is talking about and sharing with their friends.

We have a rich history of award-winning design and photography from phe-nomenal photographers and artists, and our new site now celebrates this

work with better photo and video displays through-out the site. While the plat-forms are changing, our role is not. Whenever, wherever and however you choose, we will continue to provide you news and in-formation that matters to you whether in print, on our website, a mobile app, video or through social media.

This year has been a special time for us to pause and reflect on what The Virginian-Pilot has meant to our readers.

Weve used this mile-stone anniversary achieve-ment as an opportunity to travel back in time to re-mind readers of the big-gest stories, events and people that have affected our coverage and our com-munity.

Our trip down memo-ry lane recalled the rich history of our area told through the lens of the mil-itary, arts, sports, crime, disasters, politics and noteworthy people.

When we started cele-brations in February, kick-ing off monthly themes and reproductions of orig-inal front pages readers began to reach out to us

NOTE TO READERS

PAT R I C H A R D S O NP U B L I S H E R

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Proud of our past and looking to the future

150 years of news

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1876-1885 ...............40

1886-1895 ...............48

1896-1905 ..............50

1906-1915 ...............54

1916-1925 ................56

1926-1935 ...............58

1936-1945 ..............60

1946-1955 ..............62

1956-1965 ..............66

1966-1975 ...............70

1976-1985 ...............74

1986-1995...............76

1996-2005 .............80

2006-2015 .............82

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to share their stories and memories of growing up with The Pilot.

I remember one particu-lar conversation with a lo-cal business leader about the experience being a Pi-lot carrier while growing up. Often these conversa-tions would evolve to ques-tions about the future of this, and all, newspapers.

What would strike me in these conversations was the level of expressed con-cern for our future and how would we survive.

While we are in an un-precedented time in our industry fighting to ensure the future of our journal-ism we are also evolving. A strong and vibrant news-

paper is the backbone that brings people, informa-tion and ideas together and helps to enhance the quali-ty of life of a community.

The work our journalists do matters and it matters now more than ever. It is hard for me to imagine 150 years from now a thriving community without The Virginian-Pilot in some way, shape or form.

Our challenge for the fu-ture is not the journalism but finding the right eco-nomics to support it. We are optimistic about the future of The Virginian-Pilot and our industry.

Today, as we celebrate 150 years of publication we have compiled for you a special collection of the Pilots biggest stories of

each decade, significant milestones and key people who are an important part of our personal history, as well as other stories and photos that capture the es-sence of who we are and where weve been.

I hope you enjoy this special package we have put together for you, our valuable readers, as we come to a close of our yearlong anniversary cel-ebration and continue our focus on the future em-bracing innovation and change to ensure The Vir-ginian-Pilot lives on anoth-er 150 years for the next generation of Pilot read-ers.

Thank you for your sup-port.

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ONE OF THE FIRST FEMALE REPORTERSto work for the Ledger Dispatch was Stella Andrews Upshur. She began working for the paper in 1918, at age 51, as a general assignment reporter and later entered the womens department of the newsroom, covering society and womens activities in Norfolk. Upshur worked for the Ledger for nearly four decades, retiring at age 89.

The first African Amer-ican to work on the news staff of the Virginian-Pi-lot was George Linyear. He was hired July 5, 1963, to work as a graphic touch-up artist for the news de-partment. The first Afri-

can American reporters on staff were Coatie L. Brin-kley Jr., for the Ledger and Marvin Leon Lake for the Pilot.

Both started working for the papers in 1969.

Ledger-Dispatch first

published color comics on Sept 28, 1907.

The Virginian- Pilot was the first and only newspa-per to report on the news of Orville and Wilbur Wrights astonishing feat of a manned, powered flight on Dec. 17, 1903, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

News of the flight was leaked to reporters at The Virginian-Pilot hours af-ter it happened. Working off the tip, Pilot newsmen rushed to report the event and the original story pub-lished on Dec. 18, 1903, con-tained many errors.

A century later, on the an-niversary of the flight, The Pilot ran a front page sto-ry, correcting many of the errors that appeared in the original story.

Virginian-Pilot report-er Edward Keville Glennan was the first to photograph Eugene Elys successful

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Eugene Elys first flight off a ship, in 1910, from the deck of a ship, which was anchored near Old Point Comfort off the coast of Norfolk.


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attempt at making a ship-to -shore flight. The civilian pilot made history on the morning of Nov. 14, 1910, when he flew his airplane off a ramp attached to the deck of the Birmingham. Glennan witnessed the event and took the picture.

The first Parade maga-zine was added as a supple-ment to the Sunday edition of the Virginian-Pilot in Au-gust 1951.

The first female manag-ing editor was Sandra M. Rowe, in November 1983.

The first African-Ameri-can publisher was Maurice Jones, in April 2008.

The first female publish-er was Patricia Richardson, in September 2014.

The Virginian-Pilots first staff photographer was Charles Borjes. He started work at the paper in 1913 and shot pictures for about 40 years before re-tiring.

Norfolk Landmark re-porter Watson Boyle was

the papers first Washing-ton correspondent in 1882.

The Virginian-Pilot won its first Pulitzer prize in 1929 for Louis Isaac Jaffes editorial entitled An Un-speakable Act of Savagery.

The first computer, an IBM 1620 computer system was installed to speed the typesetting operations. The Virginian-Pilot and Ledger Star were among the first 20 of the nations 1,700 daily newspapers to use the IBM computer system, in August 1964.

The Pilot produced its first full color special ad-vertising section in Septem-ber 1963. The 12-page full color ad for Home Furni-ture Company marked the first time a newspaper in Virginia had produced such a section in full color.

The Virginian-Pilot opened a state capital news bureau in Richmond. It was the first bureau opened by a newspaper headquar-tered outside of that city. A direct teletype connected the Richmond bureau with

the Virginian-Pilot news-room in Norfolk in Septem-ber 1963.

The Virginian-Pilot pub-lishes its first tabloid mag-azine targeted at teens in August 1966. Action mag-azine was published every other Saturday and was de-voted to reporting news and features of special interest to young people.

For the first time, the Sunday edition of the Vir-ginian-Pilot was sold at newsstands in Hampton, Newport News and Wil-liamsburg in March 1977.

The tabs , which expand-ed and emphasized local news were introduced city by city: Virginia Beach Beacon in March 1962;

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Norfolk Compass in March 1976; Suffolk Sun in 1976; Currents in 1977.

The first newspapers rolled off the presses at the newspapers new building on Brambleton Avenue on Oct. 18, 1937.

The first female news-paper carriers started de-livering papers in the fall of 1972, after the Virgin-ia state code under child la-bor law was changed to al-low girls older than 13 to be newspapers carriers.

Newspaper veteran Rich-ard J. Gonder was named the papers first public ed-itor in September 1974. Gonder was responsible for monitoring accuracy and fairness in news content of the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger Star.

In the early months of 1981, the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger Star joined 10

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The experimental ser-vice was provided by Com-puServe Inc. and ended in June 1982.

In December 1994, The Virginian-Pilot begins pub-lishing top local stories and classified advertising to Pi-lotonline.com, the papers supplement for computer users.

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HISTORIC FIRSTS

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THE SARGEANT MEMORIAL COLLECTION

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In the past 25 years, The Pilot family has lost some giants. To honor Frank Batten, Guy Friddell and George Tucker in this anniversary issue, were re-running abridged versions of their staff-written obituaries. This originally ran on Sept. 11, 2009.

By Earl SwiftThe Virginian-Pilot

He was a son of privilege, the heir to a family fortune, a man whose life, in other hands, might have been mea-sured in dollars and cents.

Instead, Frank Batten forged a legacy not on what he made but what he created.

From errand boy he rose to publisher of The Virginian-Pilot and its afternoon sister, then parlayed his newspa-

pers into an adventuresome media company with glob-al reach.

He helped lead the fight for integrated schools in Nor-folk, midwifed Old Domin-ion University into being, commanded The Associat-ed Press and its far-flung correspondents, and defied a legion of doubters to create The Weather Channel.

He also lavished endow-ments on schools and uni-versities and co-founded a

scholarship program that guaranteed college educa-tions to inner-city children.

And with a resolve that characterized all he did, he survived throat cancer and overcame the loss of his voice, then persevered through a succession of ail-ments and injuries late in his life.

Batten, who was 82, died Sept. 10, 2009.

He left behind a region significantly changed by his presence.

He could very easily have just led the good life and not dealt with the problems of the city and the state, said Harvey Lindsay, a Norfolk real estate developer, civic leader and friend of Battens for nearly 60 years. But he chose to become very in-volved and to do things that have helped so many people.

I think he was certainly one of the great Virginians of the century.

Louis D. Boccardi, retired

president and chief execu-tive officer of The Associ-ated Press, called Batten a teacher and a leader and a visionary.

Bruce Bradley, retired publisher of The Virginian-Pilot, called him the embodi-ment of hard work, humil-ity and innovation.

Until its partial breakup in 2008, Battens Landmark Communications Inc. was one of the countrys largest privately held media com-panies.

At its height, the company employed more than 10,000 people throughout the Unit-ed States and Europe, and annual revenues approached $2 billion.

Such measures of success were never Battens, how-ever.

The thing I think Im most proud of, he said in a 2000 interview, is developing what I think is a first-rate

JOURNALISTS Frank Batten

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to the fore most publicly in 1982, when Batten embarked Landmark on its most auda-cious venture: the creation of a coast-to-coast, 24-hour cable TV channel that broad-cast nothing but weather in-formation.

The Weather Channel be-came Landmarks highest-profile property and a main-stay of cable systems around the country. When the com-pany announced plans to sell the channel, its website and an associated weather data firm in January 2008, it made headlines around the coun-try.

The sale to NBC Univer-sal and two private-equity firms reportedly netted $3.5 billion.

As bold as that endeav-or was, Batten may have matched it in 1988, with his role in creating the Access College Foundation.

With auto dealer Joshua

Darden Jr., he founded a pro-gram that helped acquire col-lege scholarships for Norfolk and Portsmouth high school students in need who earned decent grades, had good at-tendance and stayed off drugs through high school. It also provided qualified students with cash awards to meet expenses not cov-ered by scholarship money.

The foundations potential client list was daunting.

Moneys always an issue when you have a program that is promising a college education for an unlimit-ed number of people for an unlimited time, said Anne Shumadine, a past founda-tion chairwoman. But when you help people grow and im-prove themselves, everyone benefits. Thats one thing that Frank has really im-pressed upon me.

Over 20 years, the pro-gram has helped more than 70,000 graduates from South Hampton Roads obtain $200

million in college aid.Batten also created the

Landmark Foundation, which has funneled millions of dol-lars to educational charities and other nonprofit organi-zations.

His philanthropy reached a peak in his last years, dur-ing which he donated $100 million to U.Va. the larg-est gift in the universitys history to create its first new school in more than half a century, the Frank Bat-ten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

His 2008 gift of up to $70 million to Culver Academies followed an earlier donation of $20.8 million; taken sep-arately, let alone together, they were among the largest ever to an American second-ary school.

He contributed $20 million toward a new Norfolk library and $7 million to the Virginia Zoo. His largesse also boost-ed U.Va.s Darden Graduate School of Business Adminis-

tration, to which he donated $60 million, and numerous other colleges and charities. In March 2003, Batten made contributions totaling $170

million to educational insti-tutions including ODU, Vir-ginia Wesleyan College, Hol-lins College in Roanoke, and the Harvard Business School.

I think all of his philan-thropy is characterized by his desire to make a real dif-ference, said Linda Hyatt Wilson, former executive di-rector of the Landmark Foun-dation.

That money isnt going to be swallowed up as part of a huge endowment.

Batten stepped down as Landmarks chairman in 1998, handing over control of the company to his son. By that time, Frank Batten Jr. was well-grounded in the companys businesses, hav-ing worked in the newsroom and in advertising in Roa-noke and as publisher of The Virginian-Pilot, the Ledger-Star and a Landmark paper in Kentucky.

Pilot writer Dave Mayfield contributed to this story.

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This article was originally published on July 21, 2013

By Earl SwiftThe Virginian-Pilot

NORFOLK

He found poetry in toma-toes, corn bread, in old dogs and the scent of magnolia blos-soms. He found romance, ad-venture and inspiration in the past and its stories. He found dignity, and decency, in prac-tically everyone he met.

And in a newspaper career that spanned 60 years, Guy Friddell found a place in his-tory: He died July 20 at age 92, one of Virginias favorite con-temporary writers.

Literary, lyrical and uncom-promisingly liberal, Friddells

thousands of columns for The Virginian-Pilot and its late sis-ter, the afternoon Ledger-Star, earned a wide and devoted fol-lowing and established him as his communitys conscience. His subjects included politics, which he developed into an ex-pertise in Richmond before joining The Pilot in 1963, as well as the pleasures of fam-ily, the wonders of nature, the genius of the Founding Fathers and, by no means least, his own legendary mis-adventures.

Those wearied by war, crime and pestilence found respite in his words and loved him for them. So prized were his columns that for decades they appeared in both the Nor-

folk and Richmond papers, through an arrangement un-heard-of for competitors. Frid-dell attracted a passel of na-tional and state honors, won the General Assemblys of-ficial thanks, and was name-sake to the Virginia Press As-sociations top writing award. He was also a popular speak-er, the author of eight books, and a mentor to generations of journalists.

He was as impressive, if not more so, off the page. Hes a great American, said Marjo-rie Mayfield Jackson, execu-tive director of the Elizabeth River Project and Friddells friend for decades. Just on how to live full-out in gen-erosity, in courage, in tak-ing full delight in the good things about life. To hold noth-ing back.

He focused on what was important, the second of his three sons, Malcolm P. Mac Friddell, said, on figuring out what was right, and doing it.

He is, by nature, very gen-

tle, but when something was important to him, he was fe-rocious, and very, very stub-born, said his oldest son, Guy R. Rusty Friddell III.

He would not compromise. He wouldnt let go. Hed just bash into it until he got it to yield.

Friddell, who had suffered from dementia and declining

physical health for several years, died in his sleep.

Guy Raymond Friddell Jr. was the first of two children born to an Atlanta insurance salesman and his homemak-er wife, and by age 10, Junior was producing his own weekly newspaper for the residents of his familys suburban neigh-

borhood. He obtained his first formal newspaper training at Henry W. Grady High School for Boys and, after his parents moved north in 1936, at Thom-as Jefferson High School in Richmond.

On the eve of World War II, Friddell started classes

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at the University of Rich-mond, where he joined the staff of The Collegian. It was there that his course in life was set: His newspapering skills earned him the nick-name Scoop and the admi-ration of classmates; his intel-lect earned the respect of his professors; his personal style attracted attention from both.

Romance demanded his at-tention as well. At a 1942 mix-er, Friddell asked the daughter of Richmonds legendary ath-letic director, Malcolm Mac Pitt, to dance. The coach had been a multisport athlete; his son was a multisport athlete; his daughter, Virginia, athletic herself, was a huge sports fan; and here was a suitor from the other disciplines, as his son Rusty put it.

The pairing sparked. It may have been that he put such a pursuit on that, he pre-vailed when, by all rights, he should not have, Rusty the-orized.

Virginia Pitt would become Gin to generations of read-ers.

Not yet, however. First, Friddell was drafted.

With peace, Friddell made his way home. In a day or so, I called Gin, he recalled, whom I had written only twice in four years.

They must have been some letters: Shed been waiting. He returned to school, got his degree, did a year of on-the-job training at the Lynch-burg News, and married Gin in 1947.

The newlyweds moved to New York, where Friddell pur-sued his masters degree at Columbia Universitys School of Journalism. He worked for the Journal News in Nyack and Gin taught school before they returned to Richmond, where Friddell got a job as publicity director for the Vir-ginia Museum of Fine Arts.

He joined the News Lead-er in 1950. Within a couple of years he was writing about politics the statehouse, the governors office, the con-gressional delegation and

it wasnt long before he was a bona fide political sage, known for stories at once incisive, au-thoritative and poetic.

And on the side, he turned out columns scores of them, each better than the last.

The Friddell of those col-umns, and those of the next half-century, was well-inten-tioned, kindly, even innocent, an everyman whose troubles sprang from a barrage of dis-tractions.

Just blame it on the day, balmy, almost to the point of being a summers day, a March 1979 column opened, so that the sun played across your shoulder blades and made you think about laying off and doing nothing, which I was aiming to do, starting out the door, when my wife thrust $10 at me and said pick up a rib roast for the company coming to dinner.

And I sincerely meant to do it, but, on the way to the store saw a vegetable stand and, be-cause the day was so sunny, in-stinctively turned the car that way, my hand acting almost on its own accord.

Gin starred in many, serv-ing as Greek chorus, an ad-monishing voice of common sense, a stern arbiter of jus-tice. Regular readers shared her exasperation and savored Friddells rope-a-dope de-fenses. The literary Guy re-garded her with a blend of af-fection, respect and mild fear.

The flesh-and-blood Frid-dell may have done the same, though above all, he clearly adored her: She figured in vir-tually every conversation on which he embarked.

In time, the couples three sons were added to the cast Rusty, born in 1951; Mac, in 1952; and Winn Cullen, in 1955. It was not a Norman Rockwell household: The boys called him Guy or Guybo, and her Gin, from the start. In his parenting, Friddell was more a co-conspirator than a disciplinarian.

When a firmer hand was required, he was apt to take a back-door approach. Thus, when Winn grew his hair long at college, Friddell didnt tell

him to cut it, he merely told him that he looked like Eliza-beth Barrett Browning. That prompted me to make one of my first trips to the library to look her up, Winn said, and the resemblance was uncan-ny, unfortunately.

Unconventional though they were, Friddells accounts of the familys dramas struck a resounding chord with read-ers, no doubt in part because of the pains he took with his writing.

He had no hobbies, ever, Rusty said. No personal pur-suits of any nature. Never went out to play cards, play golf. It was either something involving us, that would im-prove our lot, or it was the work.

Friddells first book, Jack-straws (1961), amassed a few dozen of his early Richmond columns. Two other collec-tions, I Hate You I Love You (1965) and Opinions of an Old Contrarian (1997), were to follow.

In 1963, The Virginian-Pi-lot lured him to Norfolk. His columns soon became a hit. Considering their brevity most ran 800 words or less they had a remarkably unhur-ried air. Even those on politics were steeped in folksy gentil-ity, a conversational calm that belied Friddells firebrand leanings.

He strayed from his sub-jects, often as not, to illustrate a point or play on words or re-count some long-faded his-torical footnote, and it was in these detours that the breadth of his learning became appar-ent. One 1994 column, osten-sibly about tomato sandwich-es, traipsed through Einsteins theory of relativity, the great physicists grooming, main-taining good relations with ones spouse, plate tectonics and a reference to architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Friddells reputation rested not only on his yarns, but on his scattershot, completely ad hoc approach to life. He was perpetually distracted. Hed


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