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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will be the first to say that CNU would do well to at least officially change the name to CNU.

Christopher Newport University sounds like a for profit school if you don’t know it.

Why is “Christopher” in the name?  Anyone know?

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Why is "James" in the name of James Madison University? Anyone know?[/quote]

Because it’s named after James Madison…one of the founding fathers of the country and one of the first presidents.

Was there actually a Christopher Newport?[/quote]

Wikipedia is your friend:

[i]Christopher Newport (b. 1561 – d. 1617) was an English seaman and privateer. He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was also in overall command of the other two ships on that initial voyage, in order of their size, the Godspeed and the Discovery.

He made several voyages of supply between England and Jamestown; in 1609, he became Captain of the Virginia Company's new flagship, Sea Venture, which met a hurricane during the Third Supply mission and was shipwrecked on the archipelago of Bermuda. Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, was named in his honour.[/i][/quote]

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