West Virginia University. Board of Governors

Overview Photographs, correspondence, telegrams, and memorabilia of a corporation lawyer, banker, businessman, Democratic candidate for governor in 1920 and the U.S. Senate in 1934, a Democratic National Committeeman, 1940-1958, a member of West Virginia University's Board of Governors, and holder of the Order of Vandalia for service to West Virginia University. Subjects include the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Convention and campaign of 1956, and Koontz's bequests to colleges and...

Overview Correspondence, financial records, speeches, reports, blueprints, and pamphlets of a Bluefield banker and businessman who was a treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University. Subjects include numerous businesses in the Bluefield area, Bluefield State College, Concord College, Bank of Bramwell, Island Creek Coal Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Smokeless Operators Association, Virginia Railway,...

Overview Correspondence files of Charles T. Neff, Jr. Secretary of the WVU. Board of Governors. Includes letters from Edward Grandison Smith, president of the Board, and Hugh L. Scott, Robert L. Ramsay, John J. Cornwell, Members of the Board, and Governors Howard M. Gore, William G. Conley and Herman G. Kump; copies of programs, speeches, and reports give information on construction of the WVU Library building; memorial program for Louis Black, Robert A. Armstrong, and Cleveland M. Seibert; a brief...

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Minutes of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University, including 1927 June 16 - 1947 June 30 (bound copies, volumes I - XX); also 1947-1950 (on microfilm). (These copies are archival third and fourth copies; copies one and two are available in the reading room of the West Virginia and Regional History Center; see 379.754 W517mi.)

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The Office of Charles T. Neff, secretary of WVU Board of Governors, for the period 1926-1938. Also, three interior views of WVU. Woman's Hall, undated.

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Records from the West Virginia University Board of Governor's Office, made up of inter-departmental correspondence concerning faculty research and publication. Originally the research for this was done by Charles Thompson Neff, Secretary of the Board during the years 1927-1933.