Bruce Crawford

Walter Barnes wrote English for American High Schools

John Peale Bishop published Many Thousands Gone

Van Bittner organized miners on Scotts Run

Bill Blizzard led the UMWA's struggle against Keeney's West Virginia Mine Workers Union

Bluefield Institute changed its name to Bluefield State Teachers College (now Bluefield State University)

Joseph Harned published Wild Flowers of the Alleghenies

Izetta Jewell Brown became the commissioner of public welfare in Schenectady

Oliver Chitwood published History of Colonial America

Concord gained full accreditation

Concord's name was changed to Concord State Teachers College, now Concord University

Julia Davis wrote Stonewall

UMWA eliminated the traditional wage differences between northern and southern coalfields

Cleve Bailey appointed director of the state budget

Main structure of the Buckhannon Highways Garage was built by prison labor

The administration building was built at Buckhannon Highways Garage

Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper were married

Rose Cousins went to Tuskegee Institute to try out for the Air Force training program for black combat pilots

An extension was added to the original 1927 Diamond Department Store building

Joanne Dru married Dick Haymes

West Virginia Farm Bureau Service Company was sold to Southern States Cooperative

Ruel Foster joined the faculty of WVU

Earle T. Andrews became general manager of operations of the Berkeley Glass Sand Mining Plant in Morgan County

Governor Neely appointed Howard Gore to the state's three-man Public Service Commission

Alberta Pierson Hannum wrote The Gods and One

Roy Lee Harmon wrote Around the Mountains

Homer Holt began practicing law in Charleston

Another Textile Workers of America strike occurred at Interwoven Mills

It's Wheeling Steel radio program moved to the NBC Blue Network

Johnnie Johnson left West Virginia

The first funds were allocated by legislature for libraries

Hubert Skidmore wrote Hawks Nest

Hubert Skidmore wrote Hawks Nest

The Little Beaver Lake was created with the damming of Little Beaver Creek

Joseph Long left office as president of Huntington Chamber of Commerce

The electric railway from McMechen and Moundsville were replaced by buses

Walter Martens began a partnership with his son Robert Martens

Sandy Mason died

Matilda Mason became the president of Mason College of Music and Fine Arts

Labor leader Joe Powell began work as a glass cutter for Roland Glass Company in Clarksburg.

Attorney General Abraham A. "Cousin Abe" Lilly resided in the penthouse at the Ruffner Hotel

An article by Clay Perry in the Saturday Evening Post describes four cavers trapped in the Sinks of Gandy for five hours

Col. H. Clare Hess was appointed superintendent at the State Police Academy

The National Labor Relations Board found Weirton Steel guilty of unfairly promoting its company union

The Stone & Thomas department store chain came to Charleston

The butadiene plant at Institute had capacity of 80,000 tons/year

Morris Harvey College became a self-governing independent college

The Navy named a light cruiser the U.S.S. Huntington

Volkmar Wentzel enlisted in the Air Force

A mine strike at Widen occurred

WSAZ radio began fulltime operation and assumed frequency of 930 kHz

New River State College was renamed the West Virginia Institute of Technology (now WVU Institute of Technology)

Chuck Yeager enlisted in the Army Air Corps

Hurry-up Yost retired as Michigan's athletic director

Helen Froelich married Rush Holt

United Mine Workers of America established a Welfare and Retirement Fund

Ashford General Hospital closed

Wood County Airport, Parkersburg, built

Greater Cumberland Regional Airport, at Wiley Ford, built

The Bailes Brothers moved to KWKH Shreveport

Bluefield joined the Appalachian Rookie League in baseball

Van Bittner directed the abortive drive to organize southern industrial workers

Everett Ferguson sold Browns Island to Weirton Ice and Coal Supply Company

Lew Burdette signed his first professional contract with the New York Yankees

Col. E. G. Via died

Camden Park was sold to James P. Boylin

Jim Comstock founded the Richwood News Leader

Samuel Cooper attended the World Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland

Phyllis Curtin appeared at Tanglewood Music Center

Davis & Elkins College received full accreditation

Dolores Dowling left the Army Nurse Corps as a first lieutenant

Joanne Dru starred in her first film, Abie's Irish Rose

Proposed amendment to make the Board of Education a constitutional body

First consulting forester in West Virginia began work

Patrick Gainer became professor of English at WVU

Joseph C. Gluck, eventually dean of students, vice president for student affairs and special counselor to students, began work at WVU

The third floor of the Governor's Mansion was added

Alberta Pierson Hannum's book Spin a Silver Dollar was released as a radio play

Governor Meadows reappointed Roy Lee Harmon as poet laureate of West Virginia

Hawkshaw Hawkins began working on the Wheeling Jamboree broadcast from WWVA

Johnnie Johnson began performing in Chicago

The village of Lilly was razed due to construction of the Bluestone Dam

Pare Lorentz was awarded the Legion of Merit

A new dining hall was constructed at Marshall College (now University)

Jack Maurice returned to the Charleston Daily Mail

Arnold Miller returned home from WWII

The UMWA Health and Retirement Funds were created

Ruth Ann Musick began teaching mathematics and English at Fairmont State College (Fairmont State University)

Eldora Nuzum was made managing editor of the Grafton Sentinel

Molly O'Day was signed to Columbia Records contract by Fred Rose

American Cyanamid established plant at Willow Island

The West Virginia Broadcasters Association was organized

Louis Jordan made "Salt Pork, West Virginia" a best-selling recording

The Secondary Schools Activities Commission appointed a full-time executive secretary to the board

Raymond Hayes made a trip to Fayette County

Meredith Sue Willis was born

Sam Snead won the British Open

Buddy Starcher cut his first recordings on Four Star

An appropriation of $60,000 was obtained for the West Virginia State Police Academy during the legislative session

Storer College was accredited as a baccalaureate institution

A constitutional amendment providing educational reforms was defeated

Joe Stydahar won another championship with the Chicago Bears

Festus Summers became a full-time professor at WVU

The rubber plant at Institute was closed

DuPont's Belle Works ceased production of nylon

Frank Thomas built Fayette Airport

The United Brethren merged with the Evangelical Association forming the Evangelical United Brethren Church

There were 261 United Brethren churches in West Virginia

Hobert Skidmore died

The current West Virginia Historical Society was incorporated

The West Virginia Review was sold again

There were 6,000 students enrolled in WVU

Irvin Stewart became president of WVU

George Smith died

WJLS added an FM affiliate

American neurologist Walter Freeman adapted a variation of the surgery called the transorbital lobotomy

Artist Helen Chilton was born in Pennsylvania

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

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

Elizabeth Hallanan became a member and chairman of the Public Service Commission

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