Seated, second from left, Dr. Ruel Foster; Standing, third from left, Red Brown; fourth from left, President Thomas Cady; Fifth from left, William G. Martin.
Harry Heflin with Professor Emeritus of Political Science Irvin Stewart, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1968
Description:
Left to Right: Mrs. Stewart, Irvin Stewart, Professor Emeritus of Political Science; Harry Heflin, Vice President of Administration and Finance, Former Acting President.
Faculty Member at Commencement, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1968
Description:
Left, Dr. Ruel Foster, Chairman of English Department; On the Right: Irvin Stewart, Professor of Political Science and wife; Harry Heflin, Acting president and wife.
Harry Heflin, Earl L. Core and Wesley Bagby at Graduation, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1968
Description:
Harry Heflin (standing, left), acting president; Earl L. Core (standing, right), Professor of Biology; and Wesley Bagby (seated), Professor of History at a graduation ceremony.
Thomas W. Bennett and Grandfather Floyd Bennett, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1968
Description:
Thomas Bennett, a Morgantown native and a Conscientious Objector, willingly served his country as a army medic during the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, posthumously for his gallantry in action, becoming only the second known Conscientious Objector to earn the Medal. While under heavy fire, he relentessly gave life saving aid to the wounded, eventually costing him his own life. He was killed in Pleiku Province, Republic of Vietnam, February 11, 1969. Bennett was 21 years old.
'The Genesis of the Book' Mural at West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va
Date:
ca. 1968
Description:
The mural documents the development of the book through out history and was designed and created by WVU faculty member and local artist, Josephine Mather Aull. It was commissioned by the WVU Book Store and dedicated in the fall of 1968. Though the photograph is black and white the mural is in color. See the Printed Ephemera Collection, P18181.