President Falwell calls for a third lane on Wards In an informal meeting of Lynchburg-area college presidents and city government officials, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell mentioned interest in widening Wards Road to three lanes each way on the stretch of road from the River Ridge mall entrance and U.S. 460. The meeting — which took place Sept. 21 at […]
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A conversation with the university’s most sought-after leader “Okay, Tré, you can come on back now,” his secretary said. For a moment, I felt as if I was back in the eighth grade. I walked through the door and rounded the corner. “Hi, Tré,” President Jerry Falwell said. All of a sudden, memories of my days in grade school left […]
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President loses 75 pounds Just 48 hours before the 2012 Commencement, President Jerry Falwell, Jr. experienced symptoms of what he later found out to be a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) — a miniature stroke. “There was numbness in my hand, my face started to droop, and Becki noticed that I was drooling,” Falwell said. “I told her I didn’t have […]
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