African-American Elementary School Where Dr. Alex L. Wade Taught, Morgantown, W. Va.
Description:
Small brick schoolhouse with gabled entrance. Stansbury Hall is visible in the right side of the photograph. In the 1940s and 50s, West Virginia University used this school as a grade school for training eductaion majors. It was called the WVU Laboratory Elementary School. The building was an African-American school prior to WVU's use of the building.
Students in a Lab at University High School, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1958
Description:
Teachers and pupils in University High School lab. At the time University High School was a division of West Virginia University for training teachers. Pictured in the photograph are, from left to right: Fred Truban, Carol Reynolds, Michael Caruso, and Scottie Riffle. Girl in background unknown.
Morgantown High School Play Rehearsal, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1959
Description:
Morgantown High School rehearsal for Wilder's play 'By the Skin of Our Teeth'. In order from left to right, the people in the photo are Marsha Sanders, Donna Crisswell, and Jim Roberts.
The people in the picture appear to be science fair officals or judges. From left to right, Scott H. Davis, Carroll Palmer, Betty Alamong, and John Bensenhaver.
Suncrest Junior High School Majorettes, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1964-1965
Description:
A photo of Suncrest Jr. High School Majorettes. First row from left to right is Harriet Harworth, Karen Suarez, Katy Muffly, Pam Gorman, and Nikki Dorhavich. Second row from left to right is Charlene Hockenberry, Katharine Pike, Kay Toben, and Nancy Fleming.
Two male students, Bill Gainer 'left' and Rick Defere 'right' are playing table tennis at the triad graduation festival. Dave Smith is watching in the background 'far left'.
'This was the last female seminary in Morgantown. It was owned and operated by Mrs. E.L. Moore, mother of Susan Maxwell Moore. Mrs. Moore had been the principal of Woodburn Female Seminary located where Woodburn Hall now stands. This last seminary was on the corner of High and Foundry Streets, facing High Street. It burned in April 1889. Back row left to right are: Mrs. Sarah Moore (grandmother), Mrs. Elizabeth Deven McGee, Mrs. E.L. Moore, unidentified, Mrs. M. J. Brand, Willa Brand, George M. Brand, and Lieutenant Will Moore of the Navy. Front row left to row are: Mrs. Will Moore (Lois), Willie Moore, Elizabeth Thomas, Mrs. M. Sweeney, and Susan Maxwell Moore.'
Students pose in front of Woodburn Seminary in Morgantown, West Virginia. 'Woodburn Seminary was used by West Virginia University until February 1873, when it burned.'