Granting Funds for Heart Disease Research, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1963
Description:
'Donald F. Riedeman, Chairman of the Marion County Heart Committee, is shown on the right present a $2,000 grant to the West Virginia University School of Medicine for research of the genetic aspects of congenital heart disease. Dean Clark K. Sleeth accepts the check for the study.'
Left, Dean of Medicine Clark Sleeth; Center, Dr. Paul Dudley White; Right, Van Liere (former Dean). White is famous in the field of cardiology, and served as President Eisenhower's cardiologist after his heart attack. He appears to be holding a model or cast of a heart, and may have been invited here to speak.
Faculty Honors Convocation, West Virginia University
Date:
1967/3/07
Description:
'A scene from the March, 7, 1967 Faculty Honors Convocation shows, from left to right: Robert Slonneger, WVU Professor of Mechanical Engineering; R.C. Butler, WVU, Professor and Chairman of Agricultural Engineering; George McLaren, WVU Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition; Clark Sleeth, Dean of the WVU School of Medicine; Virgil Lilly, WVU Professor of Physiology; and Wesley Bagby, WVU Professor of History. 100th Anniversary Office.'