Faculty and Others at Commencement, West Virginia University
Date:
1954
Description:
Left to right: President Irvin Stewart, C. E. Hodges (Board of Governors), E. J. Van Liere (medicine), P. I. Reed (dean of journalism), Professor Koehler (chemical engineering). Photo taken by Jack Hodge, first black graduate of West Virginia University.
Jack Hodge, West Virginia University, Class of 1954
Date:
undated
Description:
The first black graduate of WVU in 1954, Hodge became a journalist and subsequently a newspaper editor at the News American in Baltimore. He also taught at Howard University in Washington D. C.