Faculty and Adminstration Group Portrait, West Virginia University
Date:
1960-1970
Description:
Seated, first on left Hans McCord; Bill Thompson, standing last on right; Chuck Haden, State Representative, standing sixth from left; John Pyles, standing fifth from left; Dr. Paul A. Miller, President of West Virginia University, seated, head of table.
Harry Heflin Accepts Departmental Assistance Grant
Date:
1967
Description:
'DEPARTMENTAL ASSISTANCE GRANT- Gulf Oil Company has given the chemical engineering department at West Virginia University a $1,000 unrestricted Departmental Assistance grant. Dr. Harry Heflin, left, University vice-president of administration and finance, accepts the grant from R.K. Pearson, recruitment adviser at Gulf's Philadelphia Refinery. The grant is one of 95 that Gulf is making this year to selected departments of many universities and colleges.'
President Taft attends West Virginia University President Thomas Hodges' Inauguration
Date:
1911/11/01
Description:
'PRESIDENT TAFT VISITS MORGANTOWN, NOV. 1, 1911- President William Howard Taft, front row center, delivered the inaugural speech Nov. 1, 1911, when Thomas Edward Hodges became president of the University. Pictured in front row, left to right are Daniel B. Purinton, Gov. W.E. Glasscock, President Taft, Mr. Hodges and Dr. I.C. White. Pictured at left on porch are (unknown) Frank Cox, left, and Henry Green, the editor of The Post. The first two men pictured in the back row could not be (named, third unsure) is James L. Lakin, fourth Maj. Butts, hero who lost his life in sinking of Titanic; fifth, a Mr. Sigwart; sixth George C. (Rodgers-unsure); seventh, H.C. Batton; eighth and ninth, unidentified: tenth, Harry Carspecken; and others, M.L. Brown, William Williams, (unknown), Benjamin Rosenbloom, Frank B. Trotter and Dr. A.M. Buckhannon. The men in uniform were members of Gov-(the rest is unclear).