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The 2011 annual meeting of the Virginia Forum will be jointly hosted  
by next-door neighbors Virginia Military Institute and Washington and  
Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.  A draft of the program will be  
available soon on the Virginia Forum website.

The registration fee for the 2011 Virginia Forum is $75 ($50 for  
graduate/undergraduate students) until 11 March.  The late  
registration fee after 11 March is $90.

Registration fee refund policy:  a $35 processing fee will be charged  
for refunds requested before 18 March.  No refunds will be granted  
after 18 March.

An online registration system will be available through the Virginia  
Forum web page by 31 January 2011.  An email notification will be sent  
to this same Virginia Forum list as this announcement when the online  
registration system opens.

Those interested in attending the Forum should register early, as a  
maximum of 250 persons will be registered.

The conference will provide box lunches on both Friday, 25 March, and  
Saturday, 26 March, as well as a heavy hors d’oeuvre evening reception  
at Evans Hall, Washington and Lee University, on Friday.  There will  
also be midmorning and midafternoon coffee breaks on Friday and  
Saturday.

Conference attendees should book their rooms separately.

Rooms have been blocked at Best Western Hotel (540-458-3020) and  
Holiday Inn Express (540-463-7351).  The conference rates for those  
two hotels is $70 plus tax per night.  To obtain the conference rate,  
tell the hotel your block code is VAF.

There are limited rooms available, so please reserve yours as soon as  
possible.  Unreserved rooms will revert to hotel control at midnight  
on Thursday, 24 February.  After that date there is no guarantee rooms  
or the conference rate will be available.

Information about other hotels and bed-and-breakfast opportunities in  
the Lexington area is available at

www.lexingtonvirginia.com

Several downtown bed-and-breakfast lodgings are within walking  
distance of VMI and WLU.  Lexington is a very safe town for  
pedestrians by day or night.

Book rooms early;  Lexington has many visitors and they all have to  
sleep somewhere.
  
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