West Virginia University Institute of Technology - Bear Tracks Yearbook (Montgomery, WV)

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DEDICATICDN To Ioseph Iairell, we wish to dedicate this issue of Bear Traclcs. afoef who would ha-ue been a senior at Tech this year, was drowned while he was fshing in Richinonds .Eddy near Hinton on August 13, 1950. He served as a half-back on the Golden Bears football squad. In baseball, he played in the out- .Held and pitched. A graduate of Sherinan High School, 'gloev played fist base and pitched for the Seth baseball team in the Big Coal River League. Page Seven

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Page Six This oneps for Ioe. We,d like to pay tribute to a missing member of the Tech family-a good sport! Our Joe!

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Page Eight FCDREWCDRD What is the date? Never mind the day and the month-they are not really very important. What year is it? 1953? 1962? 1978? You see, the date words were written does not meananything. Words are always now. Pictures though are different. Pictures are always the day they were taken. Of all the pic- tures that we could have taken of your years at Tech we have only a few in here. But perhaps these few pictures will start the fingers of memory picking out some minor tune on the battered piano that is our lives. Perhaps for a moment you will see the October sun drop behind the hill at Mount Carbon, the lights of Third Avenue popping between the glistening coal carsg perhaps you will hear, too, the clatter in the cafeteria, the riveting machines on the hill. Then for a moment or so you will be back in the academic year of 1950-1951, the year the Korean War started, the year you and I and all the wonderful guys -and girls were together at Tech.