Radford President Donald Dedmon, Virginia Senatorial candidate John Warner, and actress Elizabeth Taylor on the campus of Radford University, May 1977, accompanied by faculty, staff, and students.
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died on March 23 at age 79, was married to John Warner from 1976 until 1982. Taylor accompanied Warner on a visit to Radford in May, 1977, prior to his election to the U. S. Senate. Warner was elected to the Senate from Virginia in 1978 and served until 2009. Taylor, of course, enjoyed a long career in film and on the stage that included such roles as 1943’s National Velvet (filmed when she was 12), the film version of Tennessee Wiliiams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) , Cleopatra (1963), and her 1966 Academy-award winning performance in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Taylor, John Warner, and Donald Dedmon, May 1977
Sources: The photos are from the Radford University archives, the information about Elizabeth Taylor is from the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (accessed through McConnell Library’s online Gale Virtual Reference Library)
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