College of Pharmacy Student Group on Visit to Calco Chemical Plant, Willow Island, W. Va.
Date:
1953/04
Description:
Group portrait of West Virginia University College of Pharmacy students visiting Calco Chemical Plant in Willow Island, W. Va. See A&M 977 for correspondence regarding this trip. Kneeling: Robert Lewis, Donald Douglas, Samuel Argentine, Benton Smith, William Hammett; Standing: William Shumate, Rudy Harman, Robert Robinson, Jack Riggs, Herbert Rothlisberger, Calco Rep.
Cadet Cannoneers in Battery Formation in Woodburn Circle, West Virginia University
Date:
1876
Description:
"WVU cadets stand for inspection beside the new $4000 Armory built in 1873. University Ave had not been built yet so the white fence delineates Woodburn Circle. Martin Hall includes an entrance porch with a balcony.", as described in "West Virginia University, Symbol of Unity in a Sectionalized State".
Dr. Hartigan, the instructor, is in the front row, second from the left; and Wayne Willey is in the front row, on the extreme right. The other students are not identified.
From April 1936 Alumni Magazine. Harriet Eliza Lyon, a transfer student from Vassar College was WVU's first woman graduate. The only woman in the fourteen member Class of 1891, she won the honor of being valedictorian. Born in Fedonia, New York, she moved to Morgantown with her family in 1867 when her father, Franklin Smith Lyon, accepted a position as one of WVU's first professors. After graduating from the University, Harriet Lyon returned to Fredonia and married Franklin Jewett, a professor of science at the Fredonia Normal school. She raised four children and was active as a musician, singer, composer, and community leader. Harriet Lyon was a grandniece of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mt. Holyoke College.
Modern Athens Social Organization, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1891/4/15
Description:
From Sallie Norris' copy of original playbill. Most likely a photograph of members of the M[odern]. A[thens]. S[ocial]. O[rganization]. Sallie Norris sits at the bottom right; Harriet Lyon stands to the left rear. Community-based social organizations furnished entertainment in an era when fraternities and sororities were banned and there were no athletic teams.