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A collection of West Virginia University related publications. Also includes addenda of 2005/04/20 (1999-2000 campus directory) and 2014/06/20 (university publications). See also A&M 5060, West Virginia University, Printing Services.

This collection is minimally processed. It includes administrative records of the WVU School of Pharmacy, and records related to the creation of the Medical Center.

Box 1 includes: correspondence regarding the Medical Center (ca. 1951-1958); School of Pharmacy faculty meeting minutes (1937-1961) and Visiting Committee correspondence and reports (January 1952 - August 1967);
School of Pharmacy reports to the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association (ca. 1961-1972);
materials from the Medical Center Committee on Policy and Arrangements (1958-1959), Deans' Council (1958-1959), and Executive Committee (1959-1968); and
accreditation-related correspondence with the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ca. 1950-1964).

Box 2 includes:
various materials from the 1950s related to the planning, preparation, creation, and administration of the Medical Center, including its library, physical facilities, equipment, hospital materials, alcohol permitting and storage (ca. 1959-1973), and a consultant's report on the Medical Center educational program (1952);
material regarding WVU's war casualties (former Dean of Pharmacy J. Lester Hayman was on the Committee on WVU World War II Casualties, to assist in the university's effort to make a complete list of student and alumni casualties in World War II, and to create a memorial for them), including the publications West Virginia University and the War by Jason C. Easton (1944) and volume 2 of Lewis Countians in World War II (1943); and
miscellaneous photographs and clippings.

Also includes one ledger of School of Pharmacy annual reports and inventories (ca.1936-1968), and an oversize folder containing three blueprints to the Medical Center (undated).

Copies of the Statistics Profiles publication of West Virginia University, created by the University's Institutional Research unit. This collection contains an incomplete set covering the 1970-1971 year thru 1991-1992. Additional copies can be found by searching the Libraries' catalog.

Assorted photographs, university audiovisual and print publications, and other records from West Virginia University's University Relations (now called Strategic Communications and Marketing). The majority of the photographs were gathered for the publication of West Virginia University: A Pictorial History, 1867-1979 by Harry W. Ernst and L. Victor Haines. Also included are assorted football and other sports photographs and several video and other promotional publications.

Records created by the Student Affairs office at West Virginia University regarding establishment of a campus memorial of mast and bell from the World War II era battleship USS West Virginia and from the armored cruiser USS West Virginia respectively. Records regarding the battleship mast include historical information, dedication information (1963), photographs of battleship and mast, clippings, and correspondence of Joseph E. Gluck and others (1960-2001). Records regarding the bell include dedication information (1967) and correspondence (1966-2002).