Stahr, Elvis J. (Elvis Jacob), 1916-1998

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,...

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Typescript of "West Virginia University: A University Under Control" written by Harold J. Shamberger, an assistant to several West Virginia University presidents, regarding the presidential terms of Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr., Clyde Lemuel Colson, Paul Ausborn Miller, James Gindling Harlow, Gene Arthur Budig, and E. Gordon Gee.

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A collection assembled on behalf of the WVU College of Arts and Sciences by Dr. Barbara Howe, WVU Department of History, for the Centennial History Project. Most of the records relate to the Humanities program at West Virginia University. Includes mostly copies of materials from former students, as well as transcriptions of interviews with former faculty or their spouses.

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Sound recordings (8 reels) of the inauguration of Elvis J. Stahr, Jr., as president of West Virginia University, on October 2 and 3, 1959; and a program for the inauguration. Three records of Stahr's inauguration, a separation from A&M 2208, Festus P. Summers Papers, was added 1973 March 26.