LONG & FOSTER CHAIRMAN, WES FOSTER APPOINTED TO VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE’S
(VMI) PRESTIGOUS BOARD OF VISITORS
VMI Football Complex Named in Foster’s Honor:
Fairfax, VA - McLean resident P. Wesley Foster, Jr., (73), founder and chairman
of the Long & Foster Companies and a 1956 graduate and longtime supporter of
Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va., was recently appointed by Virginia
Gov. Tim Kaine to a four year term on Virginia Military Institute’s prestigious
governing body, The Board of Visitors.
Young P. Wesley Foster, jr.
as a VMI Cadet
P. Wesley Foster jr., Founder, Chairman and CEO,
Long & Foster Companies
As a cadet, Wes Foster was a guard on the Keydet varsity football team for three
years. As a first class cadet, he was a member of the Honor Court, president of
the Officer of the Guard Association, and Corps editor of the cadet yearbook, The
Bomb. Foster has served on the Board of Trustees of the VMI Foundation and the Board
of Governors of the Keydet Club. He is the recipient of the Foundation’s highest
honor, the Distinguished Service Award. In September 2006, the renovated VMI football
complex on the Lexington, VA campus was dedicated and named in his honor.
Upon graduation from VMI, Foster was commissioned into the U.S. Army. After military
service, he joined Kaiser Aluminum and ran the company’s national program in 15
cities, promoting aluminum building products with home builders.
After selling more than $1 million in residential real estate annually for five
consecutive years in Fairfax County, he founded Long & Foster in 1968 with his
partner, Henry A. Long. In July 1979, he became sole owner when he bought out his
partner. More...
Background Information:
The Long & Foster® Companies is comprised of Long & Foster® Real Estate,
Inc., Prosperity Mortgage® Company, Long & Foster Settlement Services, Long
& Foster Insurance Agency, Inc. and VISION® Relocation Group®. The firm also
has the following divisions: relocation services, new homes, property management,
leasing services, resort rentals, the Home Service Connections® group, and commercial.
Long & Foster® Real Estate, Inc. is the largest privately-owned real estate
firm in America. The firm has 260 residential real estate sales offices throughout
Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
West Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey, with 19,000 sales associates and
annual real estate sales for 2006 of $38.2 billion. Sales for all the Long &
Foster® Companies totaled $65.1 billion for 2006.