Chuck Howley

West Virginia began dismantling system of black education after the desegregation ruling by Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education

Bill Campbell married the former Joan Dourif

The end of private education at Storer College in Harpers Ferry

New campus for Appalachian Bible Institute opened in Bradley

Gray Barker wrote his best-known book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers

Blackwater Lodge opened at Blackwater State Park

Boundary dispute between West Virginia and Virginia involving Monroe, Giles, and Alleghany Counties

Chauncey H. Browning was Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court

Cabell Huntington Hospital first opened for business

Lodge at Cacapon State Park was completed with a restaurant and banquet hall

The "golden" trout was spawned with regular rainbow trout at state fire hatchery

Charles Town Opera House was condemned

City National Bank was organized in Charleston

Roy Clarkson joined Department of Biology at WVU

Mine at Bishop exploded

Chapman Revercomb last Republican to be elected to the Senate in West Virginia

Associated Dry Goods bought the Diamond Department Store

Elizabeth Drewry helped pass constitutional amendment allowing women to serve on juries in West Virginia

Pete Everest graduated from Armed Forces Staff College

Pete Everest flew the X-2 at Mach 3

Ruel Foster wrote Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American Novelist

Charleston's Garnet High School closed

The state Board of Education authorized the construction of the student center, Pioneer Center, at Glenville State College

Joseph C. Gluck became pastor of the Forks-of-Cheat Baptist Church

The U.S. Government approached the C&O with proposal to build an "emergency relocation center" at the Greenbrier for reassembly of Congress

Davis Grubb wrote Shadow of My Brother

Minnie Buckingham Harper's second husband John B. Paterson died

Hazel Atlas Company operated 12 plants across the U.S.

Sam Huff played with the New York Giants to win a championship game

The peak patient population at the Huntington State Hospital was 1,460

The federal Interstate Highway Act was passed

Jean Lee Latham won the Newbery Award for Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham won the Newbery Award for Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

The Library Services Act by Congress enabled the Library Commission to acquire federal funding for public libraries in West Virginia

Clagg and Britton produced an atlas of West Virginia emphasizing historical factors and statewide economic data

Camden Eli "Cam" Henderson died

William Marland tried to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat

G. Ogden Nutting started his newspaper career as a reporter and news editor for the Martinsburg Journal

Mason College of Music and Fine Arts merged with Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

Thomas Miller graduated from the WVU College of Law

The West Virginia Mountain State Gospel Singers Corporation was chartered

Alfred Knobler opened the new Pilgrim Glass plant on Walker Branch Road in Ceredo

The community of Port Amherst received that name

The Pruntytown Industrial School for Boys was reintegrated

The N&W was West Virginia's last steam powered railroad

Mary Lee Settle wrote O Beulah Land

The Mann's Creek Railroad line closed

Planning for Sutton Dam continued

Direct distance telephone dialing was introduced in Wheeling and Moundsville

The Greenbrier art colony was reopened with the work of Gladys Tuke and Jeanne Eleanore Coyne

Cecil Underwood became a leading spokesman for the Republican Party

A silicones products plant was built in Sistersville

Andre Van Damme founded the Charleston Ballet

Jerry West led East Bank High School to the state basketball championship

The West Virginia Publishing Company changed name to West Virginia Education Foundation

The timber flooring of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge was replaced with open steel grid

West Virginia Institute of Technology was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Katherine Johnson's first husband died of a brain tumor

Ellie Schaul moved to West Virginia

Reorganization changed name from AG&E back to Appalachian Power

Leroy Allen became president of Bluefield State College (now University)

Ruby Bradley became a colonel

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company was sold to Clinchfield Coal Company

Clarksburg Park Board developed Buffalo Lake into a public recreation area

Dale Brooks released "The Ambridge Boogie" on Cozy Records

Phyllis Curtin sang Susannah at the Brussels World's Fair

Phyllis Curtin sang with the Charleston Symphony Opera

Ellis Dungan returned to the Ohio Valley, settling in Wheeling

State superintendent of schools became a Board of Education appointee

National Radio Quiet Zone surrounding Green Bank observatory was established by the Federal Communications Commission

Jack Fleming became announcer for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Follansbee rolling and annealing facilities were sold to Wheeling Steel

"Biggie" Goldberg was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame and the West Virginia Sports Writers Hall of Fame

Davis Grubb wrote The Watchman

Alberta Pierson Hannum wrote Paint the Wind

The school year was interrupted by an anti-integration school bombing at Osage near Morgantown

A new dormitory was constructed at Marshall College (now University)

The need for local graduate education was articulated by officials at Union Carbide Corporation and other Kanawha Valley chemical concerns, and Kanawha Valley Graduate Center was founded

John Matheus retired from West Virginia State College (now University)

Jack Maurice won the Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing

The McClain Printing Company was incorporated

McClain Printing Company published its first book, Chronicles of Border Warfare by Alexander Scott Withers

Mildred Mitchell-Bateman became superintendent of the Lakin State Hospital

Moncove Public Hunting and Fishing area was purchased by the West Virginia Conservation Commission

Ohio Valley Speedway was built

Construction on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory began at Green Bank

Marble King Factory moved to Paden City

Jennings Randolph flew from Morgantown to Washington on a plane fueled with gasoline made from West Virginia coal

William Revercomb left U.S. Senate, defeated by Robert C. Byrd

Leonard Riggleman led Morris Harvey to accreditation

Fred Schaus guided WVU's basketball team to a No. 1 national ranking at the end of the regular season

Festus Summers co-authored with Charles Ambler the second edition of West Virginia: The Mountain State

Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) was accredited by the North Central Accreditation Agency

Jerry West played on the WVU team that finished No.1 in the nation

Jerry West was a second-team All-American in basketball

West Virginia Yesterday and Today was adopted as a state textbook

The West Virginia turnpike was included in the Interstate highway system

A water ski show moved from Tennessee to Hinton

Aunt Jennie Wilson was discovered by Patrick Gainer

Elizabeth Gilmore helped organize the Charleston chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Patch Adams graduated from George Washington University

Appalachian Volunteers took over many county anti-poverty programs

Walter Barnes retired from serving as president emeritus of the Folklore Society

Maurice Brooks published The Life of the Mountains

Robert C. Byrd was elected secretary of the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus

The state capitol building annex was torn down

Marmet Hospital became part of General Hospital (now Charleston Area Medical Center)

Samuel Cooper was named West Virginian of the Year by the Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail

Fine arts building and dining hall were finished at Fairmont State College (now University)

Frank George was featured on his first recording

Grave Creek Mound State Park created

Charles Haden served on the Monongalia County Board of Education

Charles Haden first became a member of the faculty of WVU College of Law

Sam Huff retired from the Washington Redskins

Charles James II modernized the James Produce Company with computers and refrigerated trucks

Hugh Curry became president of Kanawha Valley Bank

Ellie Mannette migrated to the U.S.

Catherine Marshall wrote Christy

A new dormitory was constructed at Marshall University

The Marshall University Library was remodeled and expanded

John Brooks Cottle died

Mountaintop removal mining began in West Virginia

Ruth Ann Musick stopped serving as editor of the West Virginia Folklore Journal and retired from Fairmont State

John Norman became involved in medical research concerning organ transplants

Eldora Nuzum was named president of the Association of Newspaper Editors of West Virginia

A par-3 nine-hole golf course opened opened at Pipestem State Park

Otis Rice served as president of the West Virginia Historical Association

Jay Rockefeller married Sharon Percy

The Soupy Sales Show was taken off nationally

West Virginia Legislature recognized the Secondary Schools Activities Commission as a legal entity

Clarence C. Elmore, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control commissioner, was indicted on charges of income tax evasion.

Red Sovine wrote "Phantom 309"

Miles Stanley returned to West Virginia from Washington

West Virginia adopted a corporate net income tax

Reported 7,100 people were employed in textile-related jobs in West Virginia

A nine-hole golf course opened at Twin Falls State Park

Cecil Underwood announced his candidacy for governor

C. W. Ferguson III became circuit judge

The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy was incorporated

West Virginia crime rate became the lowest in the nation

George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children won the Koussevitzky and UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers awards

The old Fesenmeier Brewery was closed

Clyde Ware filmed No Drums, No Bugles

David Lindsay caught a 9lbs 12oz smallmouth bass

Marie Boette published Singa Hipsy Doodle and Other Folk Songs of West Virginia

Founder Marian Herndon McQuade was elected vice-chairman of the West Virginia Committee on Aging and was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging

Davis Grubb wrote The Barefoot Man

John Knowles wrote Paragon

Dora Ruth Parks retired

Ownership of the Linger Chair Factory went back to James G. Linger

Bob Addis set a Guinness World Record for "stalagmite sitting"

Happy Retreat was added to the National Register of Historic Places

The Energy Crisis occurred

The original Fiestaware was discontinued

West Virginia Library Commission expanded its construction project to include the Instant Libraries building program

The Buffalo Creek Memorial Library was the first Instant Library

The Supreme Court of Appeals held that the system of funding justice of the peace courts from fines was unconstitutional in State ex rel. Reece v. Giles, J.P.

An additional 2,500 acres were acquired for Kanawha State Forest

Maryat Lee founded EcoTheater in Hinton

A program was established between the Library Commission and Marshall University to train library personnel in small and remote libraries

The Lilly Brothers toured Japan

Chuck Kinder wrote Snakehunter

Governor Moore names A. James Manchin head of the Rehabilitation Environmental Action Program (REAP)

Dan Maroney served as international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union

The Palace of Gold began construction in the Hare Krishna community

M. Blane Michael operated a solo law practice in Petersburg

Mildred Mitchell-Bateman became the vice president of the American Psychiatric Association

The Mountain Artisans Quilting Book was published by Macmillan Publishing

Molly O'Day and Lynn Davis started a gospel record program at WEMM-FM Huntington

Allegheny Wood Products was formed

Congress created Conrail through the Regional Rail Reorganization Act

Joe Powell directed the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education.

The Prato Rio house was added to the National Register of Historic Places

Dallas Bailey became president of Salem International University

Mary Lee Settle wrote Prisons

The Shepherdstown historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places

Harold M. McNeill became president of West Virginia State College (now University)

John D. Rockefeller IV became president of West Virginia Wesleyan College

Jeff Holland Cook became conductor of the Wheeling Symphony

WVU at Parkersburg Jackson County Center opened

Clyde Ware directed the West Virginia-set film, When the Line Goes Through

J. Holmes Morrison became president of One Valley Bancorp of Virginia

The Kimball War Memorial was gutted by fire

Donna Jean Boley was the only Republican among 34 state senators

The Governor's council on Literacy was created

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published Shiloh

Roger Howdyshell died

Dave McCullough began to create several color designs of marbles for a limited run each spring and fall

The Marlinton Opera House was acquired by the Pocahontas County Landmarks Commission to be restored

Louise McNeill published Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems

The Department of Mines was renamed the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training

A floodwall was built at Williamson to protect the town from the Tug River

Moncove Lake State Park was created

Walter Dean Myers received the Coretta Scott King Award for his books

The National Bank of Commerce changed its name to Commerce Bank

A television version of Night of the Hunter was produced

Noah Cottrell died

The Philippi bridge's exterior was reconstructed