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    <abstract id="aspace_e8ef7f32be2748827ea60f592e80f9bd">Correspondence, minutes and miscellaneous papers of David A. Christopher, West Virginia University stadium office manager (1923-42) and secretary of the University Committee of the State Planning board. Primarily these papers contain suggestions for long term improvements and of funding needs at WVU in the immediate post-war (World War II) era. Also there are papers from his days as a student at WVU, Class of 1918, reflecting his activities in fraternities, as editor and chief of the Daily Athenaeum and as cadet colonel of ROTC. Correspondents include: Howard M. Gore, John J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, Walter S. Hallanan, M. M. Neely, Clarence W. Meadows, Chapman Revercomb, and Jennings Randolph.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], David A. Christopher Papers, A&amp;M 0181, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90013222" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Gore, Howard M.</persname>
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    <persname source="ingest">Meadows, Clarence W.</persname>
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    <persname source="ingest">Christopher, David A.</persname>
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