Elizabeth V. Hallanan

167th moved to Martinsburg

Huntington's Memorial Field House hosted the state boys basketball tournament

Bluestone State Park joined state park system

Clarksburg constructed Buffalo Lake

Legislature considered declaring TV cable companies to be public utilities subject to regulation by Public Service Commission

Sutton Dam completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Cedar Creek State Park joined state park system

Petersburg fish hatchery noticed different color trout in hatchery's rainbow trout

Judge Ben Moore ruled against racial discrimination at Sky Chief Restaurant at Kanawha (now Yeager) Airport

The black bear became the state animal

Croatian Cultural Club founded in Benwood

Mutation of normal-colored rainbow trout was discovered

Lester Hayes Jr. caught a 52.5 inch, 43 pound muskie in the Elk River

Gunner Gatski earned All-Pro honors in football

The Night of the Hunter was adapted to film

Storer College was closed

William Hoffman wrote his first novel, The Trumpet Unblown

All institutions of higher learning in West Virginia except Glenville State had enrolled African-American students

Coach Cam Henderson left Marshall College (now University)

Bernard McDonough bought the O. Ames Company in Parkersburg

Logan County surpassed McDowell County as the leading coal producing county in the nation

Mildred Mitchell-Bateman was invited to return to Lakin State Hospital after leaving to further studies

Green Bank was chosen for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Pardee & Curtin built the first all-electric single-band sawmill in the state at Curtin, Webster County.

Otis Rice served as president of the West Virginia Historical Society

Leonard Riggleman became the Charleston Gazette's West Virginia Man of the Year

West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission adopted its current name

West Virginia State and Bluefield State integrated the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Sumner School closed after the Brown v. Board of Education decision

William P. Tams retired

Theatre West Virginia was founded as the West Virginia Historical Drama Association

Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) built its first dormitory

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations combined as AFL-CIO

Billy Edd Wheeler received a B.A. in English from Berea College

Lawrence R. McHugh, S.J. became president of Wheeling College (now Wheeling University)

George Wolfe was discharged from the army

The 130th Troop Carrier Squadron (130th Airlift Squadron) was formed

The West Virginia Lobotomy Project ended

The Sugar Grove site was selected for a radio telescope

Tunney Hunsaker moved to Fayetteville

Robert C. Byrd was reelected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Cecil Underwood became West Virginia's youngest governor, and the first Republican governor since 1932

Arch A. Moore Jr. was elected to Congress

West Virginia voted Republican in presidential elections

C. Donald Robertson was elected to the House of Delegates from Harrison County

Milton Ferguson ran unsuccessfully for governor

The legislature created the Department of Mental Health

Kyle McCormick was appointed by Governor Underwood as the state historian and archivist

Discrimination against blacks in state's public places continued, according to West Virginia Human Rights Commission, including in the coal mines.

West Virginia purchased an additional 44 acres

A flood claimed 22 lives in West Virginia

A 65-site campground opened at Blackwater Falls State Park

The Army Corps of Engineers completed a dam on Elk River at Sutton

Marshall College became a university

Charleston's Davis Child Shelter orphanage closed

W. E. "Ned" Chilton III became publisher of the Charleston Gazette

Accident classified as a "disaster" changed from when 5 died to 3 or more

Bruce Crawford retired from the West Virginia Advertising Company

Reported 90% of West Virginia crimes were nonviolent

Phyllis Curtin made her Metropolitan Opera debut

Julia Davis wrote Legacy of Love

Douglass High School closed in Huntington

Joanne Dru was featured on Guestward Ho!

Ann Flagg moved to Chicago

Grafton National Cemetery reached its capacity of 2,119 graves

Charles Haden began practicing law with his father in a firm, Haden & Haden

Charles Hodel was named the Charleston Gazette's "man of the year"

Joseph Hodges was appointed coadjutor bishop with the right of succession to Archbishop John Swint of the Diocese of Wheeling

The gate house at the Huntington State Hospital entrance was removed

The coal seam at Kaymoor was worked out

Sam Mallison published Let's Set a Spell

Kyle McCormick left the position of state historian

Howard Gray passed presidency of the Meadow River Lumber Company to his son

Morgantown Glassware Guild made a line of elegant stemware for the White House for the Kennedy administration

Milan Puskar started Mylan Pharmaceuticals

Okey Patteson married Dorothy R. "Bebe" (Reuter) Warden.

The Omar riverboat was given to West Virginia

Eleanor Roosevelt began serving as U.S. representative to the United Nations

St. Francis Nursing School in Charleston closed

David Selby appeared in Honey in the Rock

The Salvation Army sold the Sunrise mansions and grounds to the Sunrise Foundation

The New River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship was established

Cyrus Vance was named general counsel for the Department of Defense

Charleston baseball joined the AAA International League

The Hinton Jaycees turned the water ski show into a full festival

WSAZ was sold out-of-state

Leonard C. Nelson became president of West Virginia Institute of Technology

Matthew Reese joined the Democratic National Committee as deputy chairman

Billy Cox met James "Jimi" Hendrix at the service club in Fort Campbell

The two Fairmont daily newspapers moved toward one paper with two editions

Goldenseal magazine was founded

Patrick Gainer published Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills

Patrick Gainer published Witches, Ghosts and Signs

Excavation conducted on Grave Creek Mound by the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey identified a moat surrounding the mound

The C&O requested authority to abandon the Greenbrier Division line

A preservation conference in Wheeling launched plans for a grassroots organization dedicated to supporting and promoting historic preservation

Joseph Hodges was recognized for distinguished service in the ecumenical cause by the West Virginia Council of Churches

William Hoffman wrote A Death of Dreams

Kanawha textbooks protest continued, fueled by the involvement of extremist groups such as the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan

Robert F. Baronner became president of Kanawha Valley Bank

The Keith-Albee Theater was divided so three different movies could be shown simultaneously

Jim Muscia sold the Logan Banner to the Smith Newspapers

The Red Clay Ramblers' first successful musical, Diamond Studs, opened in Chapel Hill and moved to New York

Gray Barker published MIB, The Terror Among Us

Former Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company was bought by Helme Tobacco Company

Jennings Boyd was inducted into the National High School Coaches Hall of Fame

Bramwell was named to the National Register of Historic Places

Charles Town Race Track sold to Rapid America Corporation

Huttonsville Presbyterian Church celebrated its 100th anniversary

W. E. "Ned" Chilton III gave a speech to Southern Newspaper Publishers Association

Columbia Gas of West Virginia became Mountaineer Gas Company

Little Jimmy Dickens was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame

Running buffalo clover was rediscovered in West Virginia

Even the Heavens Weep documentary was released by WPBY

Fostoria Glass was sold to Lancaster Colony Corporation

Greenwood Chapel was added to the Greenwood Cemetery in Wheeling

Farming ends within the original Irish Tract

State Supreme Court ruling Pittsburgh Elevator Company v. West Virginia Board of Regents permitted the legislature to waive the state's sovereign immunity

A study commission made its recommendation regarding legislation addressing the Mandolidis Decision

A group of volunteers led by a West Virginia University professor George Longenecker formed West Virginia Botanic Garden, Inc.

1,600 boxes of artifacts and 73 boxes of documents were moved to Delf Norona Museum in Moundsville

A 10-month walkout by steelworkers at Wheeling-Pittsburgh began

Franklin Cleckley declined to run for reelection to state Supreme Court