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A group portrait of Mountainlair staff: Mrs. John Mascali, Secretary to the Director (Bottom row middle) and  Ruth Conklin, Foodservice (Bottom row far right) are identified.

253. Mountainlair Staff, West Virginia University

254. Barefoot Mountaineer During Football Game

Lou Garvin, Mountaineer.

255. Mountaineer Lou Garvin, Cheerleader and Dog

United States Army Corporal Thomas W. Bennett, a Morgantown native, was a Conscientious Objector, but he willingly served his country as a medic in the Vietnam War. Bennett was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his gallantry in action, only the second known Conscientious Objector to receive the Medal. While under heavy fire and eventually at the cost of his own life, he relentessly gave life-saving aid to the wounded. Bennett was killed in Pleiku Province, Republic of Vietnam, February 11, 1969. He was 21 years old.

256. Thomas W. Bennett, Morgantown, W. Va.

Billy Scott Sirk, Conservation Officer, in uniform.

257. Billy Scott Sirk

Bell of the U.S.S. West Virginia before installation on the campus of West Virginia University.  The bell was dedicated on December 7, 1967, and joined the mast of the U.S.S. West Virginia in Memorial Plaza.

258. U.S.S. West Virginia Bell Prior to Installation, Morgantown, W. Va.