Arch Moore

William "Wally" Barron enlisted in the U.S. Army

Great Britain recognized black lung as compensatory injury

Blakeley was purchased and rehabilitated by Raymond J. Funkhouser

Florence Blanchfield succeeded Col. Julia Flikke as Colonel

The legislature changed the name of Bluefield State Teachers College to Bluefield State College (now University)

Work suspended on Bluestone Dam because of WWII

Sawmill at Cass sold to Mower Lumber Company of Charleston

James B. Griffin described the Clover Archiological Site in The Fort Ancient Aspect

Name changed from Concord State Teachers College to Concord College

Artemus "A.W." Cox began serving as president of the board of trustees of Morris Harvey College

Fairmont State Teachers College became Fairmont State College

Floodwall in Huntington was completed

Construction of the Science Hall at Glenville State College was completed

Legislature changed the name from Glenville State Teachers College to Glenville State College

Alberta Pierson Hannum wrote The Mountain People

James Lowell McPherson succeeded Roy Lee Harmon as poet laureate of West Virginia

The Concord College He-Man Club did not meet during the war years

Standard Oil combined its gas subsidiaries under Consolidated Natural Gas

Jehovah's Witnesses won the U.S. Supreme Court decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

Johnnie Johnson entered the Marines as one of the first African-Americans admitted to the Corps

Howard B. Lee retired from law practice

Clara Johnson became the executive secretary of the Library Commission

Jack Maurice served in the U.S. Navy Reserve

Ken and Faith Reynolds McClain bought the Parsons Advocate Newspaper

Frank McEnteer was made chief engineer of the construction division of the U.S. armed forces in the Middle East

Clarence Meadows was elected to a full term as 10th Circuit judge

Raleigh County experienced its peak output of coal production during World War II.

Alex Schoenbaum settled in Charleston

Legislature authorized a return to the name Shepherd College

Joe Stydahar joined the navy

Festus Summers became president of the West Virginia Historical Society

Construction began on Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston

Navy assigned the name Huntington to another cruiser

Legislature changed the name of West Liberty State Teachers College to West Liberty State College

Florence Blanchfield became superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps

WSAZ radio affiliated with the Blue Network

Frankie Yankovic enlisted in the Army

Jonah Edward Kelley was drafted into the army

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

Voters approved a $3 million bond to build Cabell Huntington Hospital

Rush Holt was defeated in the election for governor

Elizabeth Kee was elected a full term into the House of Representatives

Harley Kilgore was reelected to the U.S. Senate

William Casey Marland was elected governor

After claiming the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, William Revercomb was defeated by incumbent Harley Kilgore

W. W. Trent was reelected state superintendent of schools

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

Elizabeth Hallanan was elected to the House of Delegates

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

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

Pearl Buck founded the Pearl S. Buck Foundation

French Carpenter record, Old-Time Songs and Tunes from Clay County, West Virginia, released

Ted Cassidy secured television role on The Addams Family

Maryland Pimlico Race Course installed lighting to compete with newer tracks

C&O acquired the Western Maryland Railroad

Swimming pool at Chief Logan State Park opened

Congress passed the Civil Rights Act

Roy B. Clarkson published Tumult on the Mountains: Lumbering in West Virginia, 1770-1920

Legislature enacted law that authorized election of delegates to a state constitutional convention

Work began at Parkersburg to make U.S. 50 a four-lane highway

Ellis Dungan married Elaine Runner

North Hall was completed at Fairmont State College

Part four of Flora of West Virginia was published

The Food Stamp Act was passed, making the program permanent

U.S. Forest Service published reports on West Virginia forests, stating that 74% of the state was forested

Harry B. Heflin retired as president of Glenville State College

An addition to the Pioneer Center at Glenville State College was completed

The Hazel Atlas Corporate Headquarters in Wheeling was donated to the West Liberty State College

Homer Hickam graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in industrial engineering

Ella Holroyd was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by Concord College

Sam Huff began his career with the Washington Redskins

Schools in West Virginia were considered fully desegregated

Don Redman died

A radiocarbon date estimated the Kanawha Madonna to be around 350 years old

Elizabeth Kee retired from Congress

John Knowles wrote Double Vision: American Thoughts Abroad

Supreme Court ruling State ex rel. Smith v. Gore required equal apportionment in the election of delegates to a constitutional convention and derailed a move to draft a new state constitution

The number of state senators was set at 34

The U.S. Library Services Act was amended to provide funds for library education and library construction

Hartman Hall was built at Beckley College (now Mountain State University)

The National Bank of Commerce purchased the old Kanawha County library property in Charleston

The N&W acquired the Nickel Plate in a merger that included the Wabash Railroad, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, the Akron, Canton & Youngstown and the Pittsburgh & West Virginia

John Norman joined the surgical team at Boston City Hospital

Oscar Mairs and Hillis Youse recorded the Luther Elkins petroglyph site.

Joe Powell became state director of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO.

Leonard Riggleman retired as president of Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

Chuck Ripper quit Standard Printing & Publishing Co to be full-time freelance artist

The Rock Lake Pool remained racially segregated after the Civil Rights Act

Jay Rockefeller came to West Virginia as a poverty volunteer with Action for Appalachian Youth

The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey first began extensive excavation on the St. Albans archeological site

The Soupy Sales Show weekday morning show debuted in New York

Lawmakers created a 17th state senate district in Kanawha County

Bill Campbell beat Ed Tutwiller in golf in the U.S. Amateur Championship Final

Miles Stanley organized the AFL-CIO Appalachian Council

Western Pocahontas Corporation and Pocahontas Land Corporation donated land for Twin Falls State Park

Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) began offering an associate degree in nursing

The Valley Falls State Park area was acquired by the state

Cyrus Vance became deputy secretary of defense under Robert McNamara

The federal Economic Opportunity Act was signed into law

Wheeling Dollar Saving & Trust acquired South Wheeling Bank and Trust

The state purchased the old Wheeling Custom House and leased it to the West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation.

Charles Gabor became conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra

Henry Aaron left Wheeling

C. Donald Robertson ran unsuccessfully for governor

West Virginians ratified the Modern Budget Amendment to the state constitution

Republican Arch A. Moore Jr. was elected state's 28th governor.

Richard Nixon was elected president

Jim Sprouse ran unsuccessfully for governor

Chauncey H. Browning 's son, Chauncey H. Browning Jr., was elected state attorney general

Jay Rockefeller was elected Secretary of State

Congress passed the National Passenger Railroad Act, creating Amtrak

Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The West Virginia Department of Public Institutions (now Division of Corrections) leased the Anthony Correctional Center for use as a correctional center for juvenile males

Dr. Edward V. McMichael, state archeologist, left the Geological Survey

Lincoln County attracted many back-to-the-land settlers

Catholic Workers farm established in Lincoln County

Gray Barker published The Silver Bridge

The historic Berkeley Springs spa was transferred to the Department of Natural Resources

Maurice Brooks received the Order of Vandalia from WVU

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

Cabin Creek Quilts began as a self-help quilting cooperative

Clay County population dropped to 9,330

Bernard Coffindaffer suffered from mental and physical breakdown

Legislative Improvement Amendment ratified

Dennis Harrah was an all-state center on the Stonewall Jackson High School football team

George Daugherty took the stage name "The Earl of Elkview"

Wild boars were released by the Department of Natural Resources as a game species for reclaimed surface mines

M. Blane Michael served as assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York

Morgantown Glassware Guild closed

John Norman was named the Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail West Virginian of the Year

Phase I of the WVU Personal Rapid Transit project was completed

William Page Pitt retired

Nick Rahall graduated from Duke University

Cecil Roberts began working at Carbon Fuel's No. 31 mine in Winifrede

C. Donald Robertson was indicted on federal charges of taking kickbacks on FHA low-income housing assistance

An extended care facility was added to St. Francis Hospital

Alex Schoenbaum and Ray Danner merged their companies to form Shoney's Big Boy Enterprises

The first permanent building of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College was dedicated in Williamson

Leon Sullivan was appointed to the board of directors of General Motors

Both Honey in the Rock and Hatfields and McCoy were performed by Theatre West Virginia

The woolen mill in Parsons closed

ACTION became the federal agency that oversaw VISTA and the Peace Corps

Charleston returned to the International League in baseball

An editorial advisory board for the West Virginia History was created

The Coliseum basketball arena was completed at WVU

Robert Kreis instituted Wheeling Symphony's first concert tours

Bill Withers released his first album, Just As I am

WVU at Parkersburg separated from WVU to the state's first community college

Chuck Yeager was assigned as U.S. defense representative to Pakistan

John Zontini was inducted into the West Virginia Sports Writers' Hall of Fame

Barry Vance began spending summers painting in the Shenandoah Valley

Clyde Ware's second novel, The Eden Tree, was published

Charles Haden was elected State Supreme Court Justice

Voters approved Better Highways Amendment

West Virginia voted Republican in presidential elections

Jim Sprouse was elected to the state Supreme Court of Appeals

Arch A. Moore Jr. became the first governor to succeed himself under the Governor's Succession Amendment

Patrick Gainer retired as professor at WVU

Glenville State College celebrated its centennial

The Greenbrier Military Academy closed

Perry Gresham wrote Campbell and the Colleges

Deliverance was made into a movie, furthering hillbilly stereotypes

William Hoffman wrote A Walk to the River

S. L. Jones' work was discovered at Pipestem State Park by folk art collector Herbert Wade Hemphill Jr.

Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital was completed in Lewis County

Harold Harvey and others began work to promote a state Libertarian Party

Reported 80% of states population had some sort of library service

Frederic J. Glazer became executive secretary of the West Virginia Library Commission

Little Beaver State Park was established

The Louie Glass Company was sold by Margaret Wohinc

Arden Cogar Sr. cut a 10x10 vertical white pine in 14.45 seconds

Louise McNeill published her second collection of poems

M. Blane Michael was appointed special U.S. assistant attorney, Northern District of West Virginia

Agnes Reeves Greer died

The Coty American Fashion Critics' Award recognized Mountain Artisans as helping to spur the American crafts movement

The Mountain Institute was founded as the Woodlands Institute

O'Dell Hall was built at Beckley College (now Mountain State University)

The Mountaineer mascot figure was first used in commerce

Milan Puskar left Mylan Pharmaceuticals

The Mystery Hole became a Fayette County roadside attraction

John Norman went to the Texas Heart Institute

Logging in Otter Creek ceased when an effort began to have the area designated a wilderness area

A state highway marker was erected to commemorate the Pinch Reunion

Aerial tramway began operation at Pipestem Resort State Park

Former Attorney General C. Donald Robertson pleads guilty to charges involving kickbacks on federal housing assistance

Pricketts Fort was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Announcer Jack Fleming first referred to the West Virginia University marching band as the "Pride of West Virginia" during the Peach Bowl broadcast

Legislation authorized the state Department of Education to create Regional Education Service Agencies (RESAs)

The Shenandoah Corporation bought the Charles Town Race Track

Title 9 federal legislation mandated school and college athletic programs for girls and women

Stonecoal Lake was built

Mel Street recorded "Borrowed Angel"

The Wells Hotel building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Cecil Underwood was named president of Bethany College

Grand Central Mall, West Virginia's first shopping mall, was built at Vienna

Uncle Homer Walker was featured in the documentary film Morris Family Old-Time Music Festival

Jerry West was named most valuable player in NBA all-star game

Jerry West played in the NBA championship

West Liberty lost its Wheeling and Weirton branch campuses

The West Liberty branch campus in Wheeling became West Virginia Northern Community College

Warren S. Lewis led the major updating of the old seminary grounds at Hilltop Baptist Center

A new hospital opened in Weston

Charles L. Currie S.J. became president of Wheeling College (now Wheeling University)

Robert Kreis left Wheeling Symphony leading way to guest conductors

Bob Wise became involved in community redevelopment from the Buffalo Creek disaster

Bill Withers won a Grammy for "Ain't No Sunshine"

Carol Miller graduated from Columbia College

Robert C. "Chuck" Chambers elected to House of Delegates from Cabell County

A. James Manchin was reelected secretary of state

Earl Ray Tomblin elected to the Senate

Thomas McHugh elected to the Supreme Court

West Virginia voted Republican in presidential election

Ken Hechler was elected West Virginia secretary of state

Jay Rockefeller was elected to the U.S. Senate

Alan Mollohan beat Jim Altmeer to remain in the House of Representatives

Voters approve the state lottery amendment

A. James Manchin ran for state treasurer

John Raese lost to Jay Rockefeller in his bid for the US Senate.

Ken Hechler began service as secretary of state

The Glenville State College Pioneer Center was renamed the Heflin Center in honor of the president

A 1,000-vehicle parking lot and visitor complex was built outside the lower town at Harpers Ferry

West Virginia was reapportioned from four congressional districts to three following the 1990 census

The Hatfield-McCoy Trail Coalition was formed

Harold Hayslett's article "Shaping Blocks for Cello Sides" was published in The Journal of the Violin Society of America

Jordache Enterprises purchased Heck's for $1 and assumption of large debts

The Itmann Company Store was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Pare Lorentz was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History

Melvin Lentz cut through a 20-inch ponderosa pine in 19.76 seconds with a one-person crosscut saw

Reported 128,168 manufactured homes in West Virginia

The B&O Shop in Martinsburg closed

The Martinsburg Evening Journal changed from an afternoon to a morning newspaper and changed its name to Morning Journal

Kathy Mattea was named the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist of the Year

The first video lottery machines were installed at the Mountaineer Race Track

Vicky Bullett played professional basketball in Italy until 1997 and was a four-time all-star in the Italian League.

The Middlebourne Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places

Commerce Bank was bought by Huntington Bancshares becoming Huntington Banks

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project lost congressional support

Ohio Valley College absorbed Northeastern Christian Junior College

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake was published in Great Britain

West Virginia Lottery director Elton "Butch" Bryan and Ed Rebrook, counsel for the Lottery, were convicted of insider trading and sent to prison

Walton High School and Spencer High School were consolidated into Roane County High School