Jesco White

Otis Rice received the first Virgil A. Lewis Award of the West Virginia Historical Society

Cynthia Rylant won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for nonfiction for Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds

St. John's Chapel near Sweet Springs resort in Monroe County was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the Lynnside Historic District

Congress created the National Scenic Byways program to recognize national and state roads of special scenic value

Leon Sullivan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Andrew S. Rowan Memorial Home was closed

Jerry West was named to the WVU Sports Hall of Fame

The West Virginia National Guard was activated during the Gulf War

The Whipple Company Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

A flood wall was built at Williamson

Meredith Sue Willis wrote Quilt Pieces

Melvin Wine was chosen as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts

Laurence Yep published The Star Fisher

Michael Smith received an honorary doctorate of music degree from Alderson-Broaddus College

Snowshoe purchased Silver Creek

James Jett was a member of the U.S. sprint relay team that won a gold medal at the Olympic Games

Marshall University football team defeated Youngstown in the national championships

Samuel Starks home was place on the National Register of Historic Places

Reported 130 outdoor sculptures in 36 West Virginia counties

Rod Thorn was inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame

The Linde Division of Union Carbide was spun off to form Praxair

The New River Fellowship purchased a meeting house

West Virginia Radio Corporation acquired WCHS-FM

James Rowley was elected president of the West Virginia Historical Education Foundation

West Virginia State College (now University) received full accreditation from the North Central

Columbia West Virginia facility was built in Craigsville

WVU at Parkersburg awarded its first BS degrees in business administration

John P. Carrier became president of West Virginia Institute of Technology (now WVU Tech)

Alex Mooney ran unsuccessfully for New Hampshire legislature

Tunney Hunsaker retired from the police force

Conchata Ferrell was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Ohio Valley College expanded

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake was published in Brazilian Portuguese

Jayne Anne Phillips published Shelter

Jayne Anne Phillips published Shelter

The Rural Electrification Administration was abolished

Chris Sarandon married Joanna Hall Gleason

Michael Smith founded Rocketown Ministries

West Virginia became the third state to file suit against the tobacco industry to recover costs for smoking-related illnesses

The Tri-State Racetrack installed 400 video lottery slot machines

Hinchcliff Lumber Company added a scragg mill

Union Carbide's silicones products plant at Sistersville was sold

The present Unitarian Universalists building in Charleston was dedicated

The United Carbon Building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Melvin Lentz became wood chopping champion

Ginny Hawker began serving as president of West Virginia State Folk Festival

The West Virginia Lottery Commission approved the first 400 video slot machines at Wheeling Downs

The first open heart surgery in the area was performed at Wheeling Hospital

The Howard Long Wellness Center opened at Wheeling Hospital

Meredith Sue Willis wrote The Secret Super Powers of Marco

Meredith Sue Willis wrote In The Mountains of America

Tommy Thompson left the Red Clay Ramblers

A bridge on U.S. 19 south of Summerville was renamed the Ralph Eugene Pomeroy Memory Bridge.

An addition was added to Ruby Memorial Hospital

William R. Haden announce retirement from presidency of West Virginia Wesleyan College

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel entered a relationship with the Severstal North America

WHIS radio was owned by Triad Broadcasting

Don Whitlatch lived in Parkersburg

The Public Service Commission approved three projects

Bob Wise accepted a job in Washington

Bill Withers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

WJLS was owned by First Media Radio of Massachusetts

George Connard Wolfe lived in Standard

Woody Williams was West Virginia's last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from WWII

Charles Bayless became president of WVU Institute of Technology

Major renovations took place at Yeager Airport