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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia University, School of Pharmacy Records, A&M 5224, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

Pharmacy was first offered at West Virginia University as a department in the School of Medicine in 1914. The College of Pharmacy became a separate entity in 1936 and became the School of Pharmacy in 1958. In 1960, the School of Pharmacy changed from a four-year to a five-year program and in 1998 to a six-year program.

The Medical Center was a long planning effort. In 1951, the West Virginia legislature passed a tax on soft drinks to fund the construction of the Medical Center. The Medical Center, which housed the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Dentistry, the College of Pharmacy, and the University Hospital, opened in 1957.

Scope and Contents

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).

Related Material

770, 977, 985, 1002, 1050, 1081, 1222, 1332, 1388, 1469, 5224, 2439, and more

Separated Material

Separated to A&M 1555: typed meeting minutes of the West Virginia University Council of Administration, 1936 to 1964, and meeting minutes for the West Virginia University Academic Council for November, 1965 to May, 1966.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• West Virginia University Medical Center
• West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy
• West Virginia University. School of Pharmacy
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Registers of dead -- West Virginia