West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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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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High and Willey Street intersection, 1923. Sabraton Street Car Line. 14

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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«