Harry Heflin Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4199
Papers of Dr. Harry Heflin, who served as Interim President of West Virginia University three times. The collection includes genealogy records for the Heflin family and other families, photographs, family letters, and other material. Heflin was married to Dora Morgan. This collection is largely unprocessed.
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Harry Heflin, of Pennsboro, West Virginia
He started in a one-room schoolhouse. He introduced the first hot lunches in West Virginia in a two-room schoolhouse called Highland School. He brought in an old oil stove and sat it on a table, because he wanted the kids to have a hot lunch.
Harry graduated in 1937 from Glenville State and later received a Ph.D. in education from the University of Pittsburgh. His teaching career took the Heflins to Appalachian State College and the University of North Carolina before returning to West Virginia.
In 1964, Harry left Glenville to become vice president of administration and finance at WVU, a post he held until he became acting president in 1966-67. He would serve as acting president again in 1973 -- and then in 1981, he became WVU's 18th president.
[Adapted from article in the magazine Morgantown, dated 9 February 2013.]
6.13 Linear Feet (6 ft. 1 1/2 in. (4 record cartons, 15 in. each); (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (7 unboxed items, 6 in.))
Papers of Dr. Harry Heflin, who served as Interim President (1966, 1973) and President of West Virginia University (1981). The collection includes genealogy records for the Heflin family and other families, photographs, family letters, and other material. Heflin was married to Dora Morgan. This collection is largely unprocessed.
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Gift from Heflin, Bruce Morgan, 2016/08/04
To Printed Ephemera Collection:
"Pearl S. Buck Birthplace", 1990
"Miss Buck, The West Virginian" in "Business / Communications", 1965
West Virginia University Prospectus, 1968
To WVRHC General Collection:
"Lest We Forget" by Bess Wade (reminiscence regarding West Virginia), 1968
To Rare Book Collection:
"Christmas, An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art", 1947
"Christmas, An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art", 1948
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository