West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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Basketball star Mark Workman gets his shoes polished by WVU President Irvin Stewart, C.1952. • z:: — I - ' ' «. Link Day at Woodbum Circle, c. 1945 V. f ' f r- ' ,V ' T 1- ' : ' ' ■ . World War I veterans. Card sections retained their popularity until the sixties. 16 r . ' 11. : ' V«

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Morgantown traffic problems weren ' t new in 1923, as High and Willey Streets get a paving job at left. High Street became the center of town and the center of all traffic. A survey 40 years later showed that 80% of all High Street traffic was passing through without shopping stops, etc., and it is hoped that the Interstate 79 completed by 1972 will divert traffic from downtown, as well as the proposed Allegheny-Cumberland Parkway. Back up at WVU, business was booming too. In 1927 the Board of Governors replaced the Board of Regents. In 1930 a graduate program began. In 1940 a laboratory elementary school opened. University Senate and Council of Administration were added. Income reports were not so good, though, because one of the weakest fund-raising projects was tuition — around the turn of the century, West Virginia residents could come to school free of charge. Board of Governors, 1927. i«,gn Iw yntt. 3t. An 1 868 view of Morgantown from Westover. An early football game on the Armory Field, looking toward North High Street. The original Sunnyside Bridge, Stewart Street, and Falling Run Road, 1900. V r fJ Cl« eJi - ' • «!£

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World War I took 2697 for active duty and 46 casualties, many from the flu epidemic. 29 1 faculty and students lost their lives in World War II. The reaction to Pearl Harbor was an accelerated program reducing vacations. Students aided in blackouts, collected iron and rubber, bought war bonds and donated to blood banks. Beginning in 1 852 with the formation of the Columbian Literary Society, students busied themselves with new social and literary ventures. The first Monticola in 1896 dedicated itself to Dr. I. C. White, noted state geologist. The Mountaineer Spirit in 1967 is the latest of many magazine attempts. Other activities were the junior prom begun in 1904; Link Day and junior week in May, 1909; Panhellenic dance, picnic, smoker, and senior boat ride, 1910; stunt night, 1912; Mountaineer Week (students visiting high schools), 1927; freshman week, 1929; Christmas caroling and Mother ' s Day Sing, 1930; Life Week, 1939; Whopperswopper Day, 1 940, and Mountaineer Weekend founded by Arch Moore in 1947. Greater West Virginia Weekend in 1935 merged the sing, Link Day, and the prom. Because of a briefer calendar now, only Link Day, Mountaineer Week and Weekend, and freshman orientation survive. Added to those are Parents Weekend, Homecoming, Spring Spree, Greek Week, and other events. Fifty years separate this graduation picture of the 1909 class and their initiation into the Emeritus Club in 1959.