Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Gaston Caperton graduated from the University of North Carolina

David Selby earned a masters from WVU

Eldora Nuzum retired from the Elkins Inter-Mountain

The North Central Association approved baccalaureate degrees in business administration, elementary education, liberal studies, and psychology at Ohio Valley University

Henry Payne was runner-up for the Mencken Award

Charlotte Pritt left the state Senate

Dyke Raese was inducted into the WVU Hall of Fame

The National Labor Relations Board ruled on unfair labor practices in the Ravenswood Strike

Richard Freeland re-entered the recording business when he started Freeland Records

Otis Rice became vice president of the West Virginia Historical Education Foundation

Jay Rockefeller successfully backed the Coal Act to ensure continued funding of the UMWA health insurance

Cynthia Rylant was awarded the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for children's fiction for Missing May

Fred Schaus was named to the WVU Hall of Fame

William Hoffman wrote Follow Me Home

"Who'll Watch the Homeplace" named Song of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association

A new hospital for the mentally ill was opened in Lewis County

The Libertarian Party regrouped under leadership of John K Brown

Henry Louis Gates wrote Colored People

Henry Louis Gates wrote Colored People

Pinckney Benedict published The Dogs of God

Pinckney Benedict published The Dogs of God

Luxury skyboxes were added to Mountaineer Field

The Racetrack Video Lottery Act passed

John Nash was honored with the Nobel Prize in Economics for his dissertation

Arden Cogar Jr. cut a 13-inch vertical white pine log in 15.01 seconds

Joe Manchin first decided to run for governorship

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

Governor Gaston Caperton's family bought Seely Pine Furniture

The boarding-house prison that held Mother Jones was demolished by its owners

Bhaktipada (Keith Gordon Ham) was imprisoned

Bishop T. D. Jakes relocated to Texas to head a church and national media ministry

The Sisters of Saint Joseph entered into a joint venture with Columbia HCA

Marshall University defeated Montana for the NCAA 1-AA football championship

Jim Sprouse served as state chairman of Charlotte Pritt's campaign

The Sweet Springs resort was sold to private hands

Tamarack opened

Construction on an expansion on the Tolsia Highway began

S. L. Jones died

A second structure was added to West Virginia Graduate College at its new location in South Charleston

The West Virginia Graduate College became Marshall University College of Graduate Studies

Kenneth E. Smith became the third generation to run the McClain Printing Company when George Smith retired

Attorney General Darrell McGraw was involved in a suit against the tobacco industry that settled the state to $41.5 billion over 25 years

An additional 626 acres was added to Moncove Lake State Park to provide more hunting lands

The Sporting News named Randy Moss college football's top receiver

The Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center was built at the College of West Virginia (now Mountain State University)

Walter Dean Myers received the Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Book Award for Harlem

The National Conservation Training Center was completed

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was awarded the Appalachian Medallion by the University of Charleston

Joe Powell retired as president of the West Virginia Labor Federation

The Pride of West Virginia received the Sudler Trophy as the nation's No. 1 college marching band

The Shavers Fork Coalition was formed

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service established the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown

Marshall moved from Division 1 AA to Division 1 A

Meriluco was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

The first female trooper resigned from the State Police

Stone & Thomas closed the Charleston store

Anna Marsh caught a 50.37-inch 49.75 lb muskellunge in Stonecoal Lake, setting state record for weight

Toyota built an engine plant at Buffalo

Robert C. Byrd was awarded the West Virginia Distinguished Service Medal

West Virginia National Guard was activated in support of peacekeeping mission to Bosnia

Major renovations took place at Yeager Airport