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Library Archive Office
Email - archives@glenville.edu
Phone - 304-462-7361 ext. 6183
New Deal in Gilmer County
Presidential Papers:
These collections include personal papers, school
papers, documents, photographs and memorabilia of
former Glenville Normal School Principals, Glenville
State Teachers College and Glenville State College
Presidents.
T.M.
Marshall, 1851-1926
Robert
F. Kidd, 1853-1930
Edward
G. Rohrbaugh, 1874-1956
GSC Administrative Archives:
Executive
Committee Minutes & Misc. Papers, 1873-1899
(with gaps)
Accreditation
Papers, 1941-1958
Miscellaneous
Receipt Books, 1927-1934
Athletic
Association, 1906-1911
Cosmian
Literary Society, 1900-1906
Ed Orr,
1907-1985, Journalist
Pearl
Pickens, 1899-1978, Educator
Fern Rollyson,
1904-1988, West Virginia Folk Festival President
James
R. Scott, 1927-1980, Diplomatic Courier
Jack Woodyard Collection:
The Jack Woodyard Sports Collection is a
comprehensive history of athletics at GSC. The
complete collection, housed in the GSC Archive
Office, includes correspondence, newspaper
clippings, team rosters, schedules, statistics,
photographs and awards from both men’s and women’s
sporting events. This collection also includes
information on sports related activities such as
homecoming courts, cheerleaders, GSC Pioneers and
Hall of Fame inductees.
GSC's Number One Pioneer
Men's Sports
Women's Sports
Miscellaneous Sports
GSC Pioneer Mascot Photo Collection
(1933-present):
This collection includes a photograph of each GSC
Pioneer Mascot, from the first one in 1933, to the
present. When the tradition of the “Pioneer” began,
a candidate had to be a male senior of good academic
standing who had never lettered in any sport at
Glenville. An election would be held by the entire
student body with the purpose of selecting the “most
popular” candidate. In 1933, Charles Barnett, had
the distinction of becoming the first official
Glenville “Pioneer.” His duties were to participate
in the Homecoming parade and to “rouse the spirit”
of the student body in support of the football team
at the Homecoming game. In the early years, the
Pioneer rode in an ox-cart pulled by a team of yoked
oxen in the parade. His reglia of a suit of
buckskin, coonskin cap, muzzle loading rifle, and a
jug has varied through the years, but the idea has
remained the same. WWII made it necessary to cancel
the Homecoming activities until the fall of 1946.
Glenville has had two women serve as
“Pioneers”……..in 1990-91 and 1993-94. A framed
collection of GSC Pioneers now hangs on a wall in
the Physical Education Building (on the second floor
landing).
GSC Pioneer Mascot
Collection
Photograph Collections:
Click
below to view selected Glenville State College Archival
Photographs.
Photograph Collection I
Photograph Collection II
Photograph Collection III
Glenville
State Normal School pre 1936
T.
M. Marshall-First Principle Glenville State Normal
School
Glenville
State Football Players: Ruddle Reed and Harry Wilfong
Taken Oct. 2, 1919
Post Card Collections:
This collection includes primarily post cards of the
faculty, students, buildings, and sporting events
during the early years at Glenville Normal School. A
few cards of Glenville State College, the town of
Glenville, and Gilmer County are included.
Post Card Collection
Oral History Projects:
Glenville
State College is currently working on the following
oral history projects.
- World
War II Heroes
- Central
WV Education History
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Central West
Virginia Oral History
This collection consists of taped oral history interviews by students in Dr. John Hymes Social Science classes at GSC. All interviews were conducted between 1976 and 1987. The interviewees talk about a variety of subjects including transportation and travel, farming, mining, timbering and logging, food preservation, oil and gas, river and river boating, education, and politics. Town histories include Blairton, Bulltown, Falls Mills, and Weston , among others. Some county histories are included. Transcripts are available for most interviews.
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