Elsie Clapp

Berkeley Club Beverages was established

Ruby Bradley joined the Army Nurse Corps

Maurice Brooks received an M.S. from WVU

Pearl Buck moved permanently back to the U.S.

State Department of Public Welfare established Camp Fairchance

Earl Core began as curator of the WVU herbarium

Dolores Dowling graduated from Huntington's St. Mary's Hospital School of nursing

Paved road, private cars, and bus service replace the streetcar

Serious work on Eleanor began

George Bird Evans began writing shooting books based on shooting journals

A decline in membership left only 40 churches belonging to the African Methodist Episcopal denomination

Death of William G. Baldwin

Walter Barnes wrote The Photoplay as Literature Art

William "Wally" Barron married Opal Marie Wilcox

Betty Bartholomew earned a teaching certificate and A.B. in botany from WVU

Charleston and Huntington remained the only West Virginia cities in the Middle Atlantic League of baseball

The state purchased the initial three tracts of land to form Bear Rock Lakes near Wheeling

Van Bittner became Midwestern director of the Committee on Industrial Organization's campaign to unionize steel workers

Henry Lake Dickason became president of Bluefield State Teachers College (now Bluefield State University)

Matthew Wesley Clair, Sr. retired as bishop of the Midwest black conferences of the Methodist Episcopals

Artist Ellie Schaul was born in Cambridge, Massachussetts

Eleanor Roosevelt stayed at the Aracoma Hotel in Logan

Morgantown Municipal Airport opened

Small airplane took off from Latrobe and landed in Morgantown in rural airmail experiment

Annie Bartlett's works were exhibited at the New York World's Fair

Tournament was moved to Mountaineer Field House in Morgantown

Charleston's Municipal Auditorium was built

Ordnance Center reopened in South Charleston

Oliver Chitwood published John Tyler, Champion of the Old South

John Harrington Cox published more folk songs, Traditional Ballads Mainly from West Virginia and Folk-Songs Mainly from West Virginia