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- IDNO:
- 051260
- Title:
- Awarding First Jerry West Scholarship
- Date:
- 1971
- Description:
- Jerry West presents the first annual Jerry West Scholarship to Kenneth Tawney of Spencer, W. Va. Tawney attended WVU, subsequently earning a law degree.
- IDNO:
- 051261
- Title:
- Ralph John of Mt. Morris, Greene County, PA
- Date:
- ca. 1940
- Description:
- Ralph John lived with his parents just north of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania state line. He spend much of his leisure time visiting Morgantown and hunting in the West Virginia mountains. John joined the Army just before the United States entered the war and was in the second wave of the invasion of France, following D-Day June 6th, 1944. Ralph John was killed in action near St Lo, France on August 15, 1944. He was 30 years old.