West Virginia University. College of Agriculture

Scope and Contents The Allegheny Highlands Project Records consist of the administrative files of the Allegheny Highlands Project (AHP), September 1970-July 1980, as well as records of farming activities of farm cooperators enrolled in the program. Administrative records for the operation of the AHP include planning documents, policies and correspondence, budgets and other financial documents, progress reports, vendor records, promotional materials including information sheets, and job applications and other...

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Office files of a former dean of the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University. Files include papers of: the Resources Committee of the West Virginia State Planning Board, 1938-1945; Potomac River Basin, 1945; Soil Conservation Society, West Virginia Chapter, 1953-1955; West Virginia Forest Council; and of the Waters Development Conference of 1949.

Overview Four letters listing West Virginia University (WVU) Agriculture School students serving in the armed forces during World War II and their activities. These letters from 1944 were sent to the same soldiers listed. There are also four postcards of WVU sports, including three of football games and one of a baseball game. There is also a postcard of the Worthington Ranch of Fairmont, W. Va., and two postcards of the Cozart horse team, presumably also from Fairmont. The postcards date from...

Overview Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, and other papers (1965-95) of Dr. Joanna Strosnider Nesselroad documenting the organization and administration of the nation's first Head Start Program. Dr. Nesselroad began the first Head Start Program in McDowell County in 1965, and has served as West Virginia's regional training officer and as a national consultant for the Program. There are also letters, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, slides, and...

Overview The papers relating to Rachel H. Colwell's induction into the West Virginia Agricultural Hall of Fame. Colwell (1877-1954) is identified as the founder of Home Economics in West Virginia. Hired by West Virginia University in 1910, she was the first faculty member and administrator for the Department of Domestic Science in the College of Agriculture. She spent the next 27 years until retirement developing, teaching, and guiding the Home Economics curriculum and research of West Virginia...

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An organization composed of full time employees of the WVU College of Agriculture, Extension Division. The purpose of the association is to promote ways to enhance the job performance of its members and to safeguard and advance their economic interests and general welfare. Much of the records are composed of decisions about appropriate group medical and life insurance plans. There are also resolutions, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws.

Overview An agricultural education program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development administered through the West Virginia University Office of International Programs in cooperation with the West Virginia University College of Agriculture and Forestry. Reports and publicity releases on projects undertaken by the WVU College of Agriculture in East Africa to help the nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to develop agricultural educational programs on the secondary and...

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Correspondence from the office of F. D. Fromme, former dean of WVU. College of Agriculture. Covers all phases of the work connected with the college, including correspondence with heads of departments, county agents, extension division, University experiment Farm: experiment stations and land grant colleges, regarding Farm and Home Week, summer school, Jackson's Mill, research, employment, meetings, radio talks, labor, animal and poultry husbandry and other related subjects.

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A prospectus advertising "Farmers' Week and the Farmers' Winter Courses to be held at the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University" starting on January 3, 1916 (11 1/2 in. x 27 in.). This item is Series 16, No. 3 of the West Virginia University Bulletin, and was separated from a bound volume for preservation.

Scope and Contents Gerald Heebink (1895-1956) was an extension dairyman in the West Virginia University College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics from 1935 to 1956. Records are chiefly Heebink's subject files from 1940 to 1956 and consist primarily of addresses given by Heebink, pamphlets, letters, articles, and reference files. Topics covered include barns, dairy cows, coops, extension methods, feeds, land use planning, program planning, and silos. Also included are reports to the State Extension...