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Allegheny Highlands Project Records 44.50 Linear Feet 44 ft. 6 in. (23 record cartons, 15 in. each); (10 oversize record cartons, 17 in. each); (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2.5 in.); (1 flat storage box, 1.5 in.)

West Virginia University. College of Agriculture

The Allegheny Highlands Project Records consist of the administrative files of the Allegheny Highlands Project (AHP), September 1970-July 1980, as well as records of farming activities of farm cooperators enrolled in the program. Administrative records for the operation of the AHP include planning documents, policies and correspondence, budgets and other financial documents, progress reports, vendor records, promotional materials including information sheets, and job applications and other personnel-related papers including WVU faculty reviews.

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Clayton Roberts Orton Papers 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)

Orton, C. R. (Clayton Roberts), 1885-1955
Office files of a former dean of the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University. Files include papers of: the Resources Committee of the West Virginia State Planning Board, 1938-1945; Potomac River Basin, 1945; Soil Conservation Society, West Virginia Chapter, 1953-1955; West Virginia Forest Council; and of the Waters Development Conference of 1949.
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David E. Tuckwiller, Collector, Letters and Postcards regarding West Virginia University 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 11 items

Tuckwiller, David E.
Four letters listing West Virginia University (WVU) Agriculture School students serving in the armed forces during World War II and their activities. These letters from 1944 were sent to the same soldiers listed. There are also four postcards of WVU sports, including three of football games and one of a baseball game. There is also a postcard of the Worthington Ranch of Fairmont, W. Va., and two postcards of the Cozart horse team, presumably also from Fairmont. The postcards date from approximately 1905-1920.
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Joanna Nesselroad Papers 5 Linear Feet Summary: 5 ft. (4 records cartons, 15 in. each)

Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, and other papers (1965-95) of Dr. Joanna Strosnider Nesselroad documenting the organization and administration of the nation's first Head Start Program. Dr. Nesselroad began the first Head Start Program in McDowell County in 1965, and has served as West Virginia's regional training officer and as a national consultant for the Program. There are also letters, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, slides, and other papers (1930-86) of a former West Virginia University Agriculture professor, W.W. Armentrout. Subjects include milk production and distribution, agricultural economics, broiler industries, and the West Virginia University College of Agriculture. Also includes financial records of the Armentrout Memorial.
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Rachel Hartshorn Colwell Award 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in.

Colwell, Rachel Hartshorn
The papers relating to Rachel H. Colwell's induction into the West Virginia Agricultural Hall of Fame. Colwell (1877-1954) is identified as the founder of Home Economics in West Virginia. Hired by West Virginia University in 1910, she was the first faculty member and administrator for the Department of Domestic Science in the College of Agriculture. She spent the next 27 years until retirement developing, teaching, and guiding the Home Economics curriculum and research of West Virginia University. She was also a student advisor to the WVU College of Education and the first supervisor of Home economics school programs in the state.
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West Virginia Agricultural Cooperative Extension Workers Association, Records 1.7 Linear Feet Summary: 1 ft. 8 in. (4 document cases, 5 in. each)

West Virginia. Agricultural Cooperative Extension Workers Association
An organization composed of full time employees of the WVU College of Agriculture, Extension Division. The purpose of the association is to promote ways to enhance the job performance of its members and to safeguard and advance their economic interests and general welfare. Much of the records are composed of decisions about appropriate group medical and life insurance plans. There are also resolutions, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws.
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West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Education in East Africa, Papers and Photos 1.75 Linear Feet 1 ft. 9 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 small flat storage boxes, 3 in. each)

West Virginia University. College of Agriculture
An agricultural education program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development administered through the West Virginia University Office of International Programs in cooperation with the West Virginia University College of Agriculture and Forestry. Reports and publicity releases on projects undertaken by the WVU College of Agriculture in East Africa to help the nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to develop agricultural educational programs on the secondary and collegiate level. In Kenya as a part of Egerton Agricultural College the program assisted in farm mechanization and dry cropland management. In cooperation with Makerere University of Uganda they assisted in plant husbandry achieving a marked improvement in potato cultivation. Also to be noted is the report and scrapbook of Fran W. Bennett, a member of a three man WVU team that helped in the establishment of Arapai Agricultural College in Uganda.
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West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Farmers' Week Prospectus .01 Linear Feet 1 page (1 folder)

West Virginia University. College of Agriculture

A prospectus advertising "Farmers' Week and the Farmers' Winter Courses to be held at the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University" starting on January 3, 1916 (11 1/2 in. x 27 in.). This item is Series 16, No. 3 of the West Virginia University Bulletin, and was separated from a bound volume for preservation.

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West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, F. D. Fromme, Dean, Correspondence 5.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 ft. 5 in. (13 document cases, 5 in. each)

West Virginia University. College of Agriculture
Correspondence from the office of F. D. Fromme, former dean of WVU. College of Agriculture. Covers all phases of the work connected with the college, including correspondence with heads of departments, county agents, extension division, University experiment Farm: experiment stations and land grant colleges, regarding Farm and Home Week, summer school, Jackson's Mill, research, employment, meetings, radio talks, labor, animal and poultry husbandry and other related subjects.
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West Virginia University, College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, Records of Gerald Heebink, Extension Dairyman 8.3 Linear Feet Summary: 8 ft. 4 in. (20 document cases, 5 in. each)

West Virginia University. College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics.

Gerald Heebink (1895-1956) was an extension diaryman in the West Virginia University College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics from 1935 to 1956. Records consist of papers related to Heebink's work with artificial breeders' cooperatives; various national diary associations, including the Dairy Herd Improvement Association, the Holstein-Friesian Association of America, the West Virginia Jersey Cattle Club, Guernsey cattle clubs, and the National Eight Point Dairy Program; and the dairy extension, chiefly from 1936 to 1956. Materials include annual reports, handbooks, speeches, clippings, articles, and press releases.

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