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Article: L. DOUGLAS WILDER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER WILSON'S LEGACY.(FRONT)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 8, 1996
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The unveiling of the new L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center at Norfolk State University was a very special show. But it was made poignant by the fact that it represented NSU President Harrison B. Wilson's swan song.
While the 1,900-seat, $10 million center is named for the first black governor of Virginia since Reconstruction, it is really a monument to Wilson's tenacity and dogged determination that his school should have what other major universities have: a first-class performing arts center.
Wilson, who will retire next July after 22 years at NSU, coaxed funds for the center out of Wilder during a trip to Africa.
``He twisted my ...