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From the website of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, http://www.odu.edu/ao/facultyhandbook/index.php?page=ch02s68.html:
"The flag of the university has a royal blue background, with the
seal of the university in color in the center. The proportion of the
length of the flag to the width is 3 to 2, and the proportion of the
width of the flag to the diameter of the seal is 2 to 1. If a fringe
is used, it shall be gold and shall be 1/20th of the length of the
flag."
"The president shall be responsible for establishing policies
governing the display of the flag."
The seal is described as follows:
"The central portion of the seal is a modified and simplified
version of the Stuart arms, royal arms of the Stuart rulers of
England at the time Virginia became known as the Old Dominion.
Included therein are the shields of the kingdoms of England,
Scotland, Ireland, and France, the last of which England still
claimed at the time. Over this is placed the coat of arms of the
College of William and Mary, granted by the Herald's College in 1694,
to indicate the origin of the university. Within concentric circles
around the shields are the name of the institution and the date of
its founding as follows: 'Old Dominion University 1930.' "
Also:
"The university colors are blue (PMS 540) and silver and were
selected to be highly distinctive and unique to Old Dominion
University. In applications where silver may not be used, grey (PMS
429) should be substituted."
Official image of the seal is at
http://www.odu.edu/ao/upublications/seal.jpg.
Ned Smith, 25 November 2005
The university seal is based not on the royal arms of Great Britain
(certainly not England!) but on the arms used by the Colony of Virginia, and
before that by the Virginia Company: white with a red St. George's cross between
crowned shields of the then-arms of England (France Modern quartering England)
in the 1st and 4th quarters, Scotland in the 2nd, and Ireland in the 3rd.
Joe McMillan, 25 November 2005
