Dame will work with students, faculty and employers to maintain and develop meaningful internship experiences for undergraduate students majoring in business and economics. For seven years he was president of Malco of Virginia, Inc., in Richmond before that company merged with the manufacturer Malco Products. Previously, he had owned and operated Robert F. Dame, Inc., an educational publishing company eventually purchased by Prentice-Hall. For the Richmond Small Business Development Center, Dame has conducted seminars on franchising and entrepreneurship and has been a guest speaker at University of Virginia Darden School. For two years he served on the state Department of Education Advisory Board for Proprietary Schools.
Student internships are a direct line between the world of work and the education community.
These students are trained and educated by associate and full professors, not graduate assistants, and that makes a tremendous difference in ability and attitude. Dame is no stranger to Longwood. The youngest of his nine children attended the college for two years. He and his wife, Bobby Jean, live in Amelia at a former stagecoach stop, built in 1810.