Moody Hall Dedication - Moody Family Archive Films

This television news coverage captures Mary Moody Northen attending a dedication ceremony of Moody Hall at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia, on October 18, 1969. Moody Northen was the first honorary female alumna of the prestigious military college, which did not admit its first class of female cadets until 1997. The daughter of William Lewis Moody Jr., Mary Moody Northen ran the Moody Foundation after her father’s passing and established her own Mary Moody Northen Endowment in 1964.