A Guide to the Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1977 Transportation, Virginia Secretary of, Correspondence and Subject Files 30059

A Guide to the Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1977

A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 30059

Library of Virginia

The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000
USA
Email: archdesk@lva.virginia.gov(Archives)
URL: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/

Processed by: Erin Faison

Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

30059

Title

Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1977

Extent

6 cu. ft. (6 boxes)

Creator

Virginia. Office of the Secretary of Transportation

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1977. Accession 30059, State Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Accession 30059 was transfered from the Office of the Secretary of Transportation by Wayne A. Whitham, on 25 July 1978 to the Virginia State Library and Archives for permanent retention.

Processing Information

This collection has been processed using minimal processing standards: the originial arrangement has been maintained, the container list is brief and simple, and the records have not been refoldered and fastners have not been removed.

Material found loose in boxes was foldered and given a title determined by the archivist. In cases where folder titles were inaccurate, the titles have been corrected to more adequately describe material.

Biographical Information

In 1970, the Governor's Management Commission Study recommended the creation of six "Deputy Governors" to assist the Chief Executive in his managerial duties. Compatible functions of government were grouped under these administrative heads, who would serve as the Governors top management team or "secretariats," as they are called now.

Governor Linwood Holton's top priority for the 1972 session of the General Assembly was a proposal for a Governor's Cabinet, reorganizing state agencies into six major departments--each headed by a secretary appointed by the governor. Transportation and public safety was one of these six departments. The office of Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was created on April 8, 1972, by an act passed by the General Assembly. Governor Holton appointed Wayne A. Whitham, a member of the Winchester City Council, as the first Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety. When Whitham took office on July 1, 1972, he was responsible for State Highway Commission, Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of State Police, Highway Safety Division, Office of Emergency Services, Department of Military Affairs, Virginia State Crime Commission and the Law Enforcement Officers Training Standards Commission. The Office has undergone a series of administrative reorganizations since. On April 12, 1976, the Legislature established separate secretariats for transportation and for public safety, effective July 1, 1976. On July 1, 1984, the offices were again combined. Most recently, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was divided into separate secretariats on February 22, 1990. The Secretary of Transportation is a member of the Governor's Cabinet, and is appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly. The Secretary is responsible to the governor for the Department of Transportation, Department of Rail and Public Transportation, Department of Aviation, Department of Motor Vehicles, Virginia Port Authority and the Motor Vehicle Dealers Board.

Wayne A. Whitham, the first Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety, was reappointed by Governor-elect Miles E. Godwin, Jr., in December 1973 and by Governor-elect John N. Dalton in December 1977. Whitham suffered a heart attack in August 1978 and resigned in December 1978. On June 7, 1984, Whitham died in Richmond, Virginia. Governor Dalton named George M. Walters, a former top executive of the Reynolds Metals Corporation, to succeed Whitham as Secretary of Transportation. Walters served until the end of Dalton's term in January 1982. Governor-elect Charles S. Robb, the first Democrat to be elected governor since 1965, did not retain any of Dalton's cabinet secretaries. Robb appointed Andrew B. Fogarty, Dalton's assistant secretary for financial policy, as Secretary of Transportation. On July 1, 1984, the secretariats of transportation and public safety were combined again. As a result this partial reorganization of state government, Governor Robb appointed Fogarty Secretary of Administration and Franklin E. White, Secretary of Public Safety, assumed Fogarty's Transportation duties. White, who served as a White House liaison official under President Jimmy Carter, resigned in June 1985 to become the New York state commissioner of transportation. He was replaced by Andrew Fogarty who served until the end of the Robb administration. He later served as Governor Gerald L. Baliles chief of staff from August 1986 to October 1989 when he resigned to become a vice president with CSX Corporation.

In December 1985, Governor-elect Gerald L. Baliles, picked Vivian E. Watts, a northern Virginia legislator, as Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety. Watts served until the end of Baliles' term in 1990. In 1995 she was elected to her old seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. On February 22, 1990, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was divided into separate secretariats. Governor L. Douglas Wilder, appointed John G. Milliken, a member of the Arlington County Board of Supervisors, as the Secretary of Transportation. Milliken resigned on December 17, 1993.

In February 1994 Governor George Allen, the first Republican elected governor since 1977, appointed Robert Martinez as Secretary of Transportation. Martinez was born in Cuba and had served as Deputy Administrator for the Marine Administration and Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation during President George H.W. Bush's administration. At the end of Governor Allen's term in January 1998, Martinez joined the Norfolk Southern Corporation. Shirley Ybarra, deputy Secretary of Transportation in the Allen administration, was named Martinez's successor by Governor-elect James Gilmore. Ybarra previously worked as a special assistant to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole during President Ronald Reagan's administration. Ybarra served until the end of Gilmore's administration in January 2002. Whittington W. Clement, a former lawyer and long-time member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing the City of Danville, was appointed Secretary of Transportation by Governor Mark R. Warner in 2002. Pierce R. Homer, Deputy Secretary of Transportation, replaced Clement in 2005.

Scope and Content

This collection is composed of the administrative, reference, and correspondence files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation. The files document the substantive activities and policies of the Office of the Secretary of transportation. The records primarily consists of meterial created or recieved and retained as a result of activities related to federal, interstate, state, and local transportation programs.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Series I. Correspondence and Subject Files

Contents List

Series I. Correspondence and Subject Files , 1972-1977 .

Boxes 1-6

Extent: 6 boxes.

The original order of files has been maintained as they were recieved from the agency, which are generally arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Box 1 Folder 1
Air Transportation System Study, State, 1972-1975 .
Box 1 Folder 2
Virginia Airports, Dulles and Adv Comte on Avia - Meeting 8/17-19, 1972 .
Box 1 Folder 3
Virginia Airports Authority Dulles - Va. Advisory Committee (Meeting), 1973 .
Box 1 Folder 4
Joint Aviation Meeting (The Homestead), 1974 .
Box 1 Folder 5
Aviation Conference, Virginia Beach, 1976 .
Box 1 Folder 6
Aviation Transportation and Airport - Study Commission, 1976 .
Box 1 Folder 7
Automated Data Processing - Miscellaneous, 1974 .
Box 1 Folder 8
Automated Data Processing - Advisory Committee, 1974-1975 .
Box 1 Folder 9
Automated Data Processing, Division of Directors, 1974-1976 .
Box 1 Folder 10
Automated Data Processing - Motor Vehicles, Divison of, 1972-1975 .
Box 1 Folder 11
Automated Data Processing - Policy (Governor and Cabinet), 1974-1976 .
Box 1 Folder 12
Automated Data Processing - Users Board Proposal, 1974 .
Box 1 Folder 13
Automated Data Processing - State Police, Miscellaneous items, 1973-1974 .
Box 1 Folder 14
Automated Data Processing - Taps Computer Center, 1973-1974 .
Box 1 Folder 15
Automated Data Processing - Virginia Plan for Automated Data Processing in state agencies, 1973-1975 .
Box 1 Folder 16
Auditing and Financial Management, 1975 .
Box 1 Folder 17
Airport Security, 1972-1973 .
Box 1 Folder 18
Atlanta, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (Kiepper), 1972 .
Box 2 Folder 1
State Police - E.G. Beard, 1972-1973 .
Box 2 Folder 2
Bicentennial Year, 1974-1975 .
Box 2 Folder 3
Bicentennial - Transportation Agency Projects, 1976 .
Box 2 Folder 4
Bland Correctional Farm - Lime Plant, 1972 .
Box 2 Folder 5
Blumont, Virginia - Drainage Problem, 1973-1974 .
Box 2 Folder 6
Broad Street Station, 1974-1975 .
Box 2 Folder 7
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel - Meeting, 1972 .
Box 2 Folder 8
Chesapeake - Delaware Canal Railroad Bridge, 1973 .
Box 2 Folder 9
National Transportation Week - Speech (Chessie System), 1975 .
Box 2 Folder 10
Military Affairs, Department of - Robert S. Chitty, 1973-1975 .
Box 2 Folder 11
Civitan Club, Speech, 1973 .
Box 2 Folder 12
Clifton Forge Public Library, 1972-1974 .
Box 2 Folder 13
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Mrs. Pat Perkinson, 1974-1977 .
Box 2 Folder 14
Commission on State Governmental Management, 1972-1974 .
Box 2 Folder 15
Commission on State Governmental Management - Meeting, 1974 .
Box 2 Folder 16
Commission on State Governmental Management - Management of Virginia State Government, 1972-1973 .
Box 2 Folder 17
Commission on State Governmantal Management - Hearing, 1976 .
Box 2 Folder 18
Commission on State Governmental Management - Information Papers - Transportation and Public Saftey, 1972-1973 .
Box 2 Folder 19
Commission on State Governmental Management - Legislation, 1976-1977 .
Box 2 Folder 20
Convict Labor - Use by Highway, 1972-1974 .
Box 2 Folder 21
Committee on State Department of Transportation - Meeting, San Diego, Ca., 1977 .
Box 2 Folder 22
Committee on State Department of Transportation - Meeting, Saratoga Springs, Ny., 1972-1973 .
Box 2 Folder 23
Committee on State Department of Transportation - Meeting, Baltimore, Md., 1976 .
Box 2 Folder 24
Committee on State Department of Transportation, 1976 .
Box 2 Folder 25
Transportation: State Department of Transportation - Meeting, Chicago, 1975 .
Box 2 Folder 26
Transportation: State Department of Transportation - Meeting, Baltimore (Fed Aid Hwy), 1975 .
Box 2 Folder 27
State Department of Transportation: Meeting, San Diego, Ca., 1975 .
Box 2 Folder 28
Tansportation: State Department of Transportation - Meeting, Portland, Or., 1974 .
Box 2 Folder 29
Transportation: State Department of Transportation - Meeting, Orlando, Fla., 1974 .
Box 2 Folder 30
Transportation: State Department of Transportation - Meeting, Madison,Wi., 1973 .
Box 2 Folder 31
Transportation: State Department of Transportation - Meeting, Miami, Fla., 1972 .
Box 2 Folder 32
Transportation: State Department of Transporation - Meeting, Friendship, 1972 .
Box 2 Folder 33
Aviation Matters for State Department of Transportation, 1976 .
Box 2 Folder 34
State Department of Transportation: Aviation Subcommittee, 1975-1976 .
Box 2 Folder 35
Cypress Creek Bridge - Smithfield, Va., 1973 .
Box 2 Folder 36
Delta Nu Alpha - Transportation Fraternity, 1973-1974 .
Box 2 Folder 37
Great Dismal Swamp, Department of Interior Study, 1973 .
Box 3 Folder 1
Dulles International Aeroservices, Inc. - Ground-breaking, 1976 .
Box 3 Folder 2
Elko Tract: Henrico County, Virginia., 1973-1976 .
Box 3 Folder 3
Emergency Services - Disasters (Misc.), 1974 .
Box 3 Folder 4
Emergency Services - House Bill 97, 1974 .
Box 3 Folder 5
Emergency Services, Office of - Preparedness and Assistance Act, 1973 .
Box 3 Folder 6
Emergency Services - Hurricane Eloise, 1975 .
Box 3 Folder 7
Emergency Services - Wise County, Va. (Town of Pound) - Flooding, 1975 .
Box 3 Folder 8
Emergency Services - Wind, Flooding, Tornadoes, 1975 .
Box 3 Folder 9
Emergency Services - Prince William, King George, etc. Counties, Virginia., 1974 .
Box 3 Folder 10
Emergency Services - Tornadoes, Storms, 1974 .
Box 3 Folder 11
Emergency Services - Colonial Beach (Damage), 1974-1975 .
Box 3 Folder 12
Emergency Services - Agnes (Flood), 1972 .
Box 3 Folder 13
Enviroment, Council on, Speech by Wayne A. Whitham, 1975 .
Box 3 Folder 14
Fair Housing Law for Virginia, 1973 .
Box 3 Folder 15
Fairfax County Airport - General Aviation (Ft. Belvoir), 1972 .
Box 3 Folder 16
Fairfax County Airport - Meeting (Pentagon), 1974 .
Box 3 Folder 17
FBI Academy Training for Local Law Enforcement Officers, 1976 .
Box 3 Folder 18
Gammage, Miss Stewart - Commonealth Intern Assigned to Transportation and Public Saftey, 1973-1974 .
Box 3 Folder 19
Golden Wings Over Richmond - Byrd Field Anniversary Celebration, 1977 .
Box 3 Folder 20
Governor - Mills E. Godwin, 1974-1977 .
Box 3 Folder 21
Godwin - Achievements of Second 4 year administration, 1977 .
Box 3 Folder 22
Governor's Executive Assistant - Jack Davis, 1972-1974 .
Box 3 Folder 23
Governor - Hon. Linwood Holton, 1974 .
Box 3 Folder 24
Governor's Management Study - Dr. Richard Powers, 1972-1973 .
Box 3 Folder 25
Governor and Cabinet - Citizen Tour, 1972 .
Box 3 Folder 26
Governor's Cabinet - Communications Committee, 1973 .
Box 3 Folder 27
Governor's Cabinet - Mail Delivery Committee, 1973-1974 .
Box 3 Folder 28
Governor's Cabinet - Printing Committee, 1973-1974 .
Box 3 Folder 29
Deputy Assistant to the Cabinet, 1976 .
Box 3 Folder 30
Cabinet - Ombudsman Committee, 1973 .
Box 3 Folder 31
lieutenant Governor - Honorable Henry Howell, 1973 .
Box 3 Folder 32
Gun Registration, 1973-1975 .
Box 4 Folder 1
Highway - Federal Aid (Highway act of 1973), 1973 .
Box 4 Folder 2
Highway Saftey Division - Citizen's Band (Emergency Radio Network), 1972 .
Box 4 Folder 3
Highway Saftey Division - Seat belts, 1972-1975 .
Box 4 Folder 4
Highways, Department of Airplane, 1972 .
Box 4 Folder 5
Housing Reloation Programs (Minority Persons Use), 1972-1973 .
Box 4 Folder 6
Interstate 66 - Highway, 1976 .
Box 4 Folder 7
Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners Association - Speech: Kepner, Tregoe, 1976 .
Box 4 Folder 8
Kresky, Edward M. - Wertheim and Co. Inc. (Study Transportation), 1972-1973 .
Box 4 Folder 9
Leesburg By-Pass, 1972-1974 .
Box 4 Folder 10
Legislation - Transporation, 1976 .
Box 4 Folder 11
Melchiorre, Peter, 1974 .
Box 4 Folder 12
Manassas Airport, 1972-1974 .
Box 4 Folder 13
Marshall, Arthur N. - Traffic Saftey Systems, 1974-1976 .
Box 4 Folder 14
Mentally Handicapped Persons - Use in Highway Programs, 1972-1973 .
Box 4 Folder 15
Motorist's Aid (Virginia Highway Courtesy Patrol), 1975-1976 .
Box 4 Folder 16
Department of Motorvehicles - Visual Impairment (Highway Saftey - Dr. James Hall), 1974 .
Box 4 Folder 17
Motor Vehicles, Division of - hdgrs Bldg no.1, 1974-1975 .
Box 4 Folder 18
Motor Vehicles, Division of - Hdgrs Bldg no.1, 1972-1973 .
Box 4 Folder 19
Department of Motor Vehicles - Driver Re-Examination, 1974-1975 .
Box 4 Folder 20
Department of Motor Vehicles - Accelerated Collection from Dealers, 1975 .
Box 4 Folder 21
Department of Motor Vehicles - Planning Meeting (Roanoke, Va.), 1976 .
Box 4 Folder 22
Department of Motor Vehicles - Planning (Meeting), 1974 .
Box 4 Folder 23
Department of Motor Vehicles - Reorganization, 1975 .
Box 4 Folder 24
Mountaineer - Amtrak - Norfolk - Cincinnatti, 1977 .
Box 4 Folder 25
National Association of State Aviation Officials - Annual Meeting, Norfolk, Va., 1976 .
Box 4 Folder 26
No-Fault Auto Insurance, 1974 .
Box 4 Folder 27
Norfolk - Va. Beach - Urban Mass Transportation Association Technical Study, 1974 .
Box 4 Folder 28
Norfolk and Southern Rail Road, 1973-1974 .
Box 4 Folder 29
O'Neil, Colonel Frederick M., 1973-1974 .
Box 4 Folder 30
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock - Dredge, 1973-1974 .
Box 4 Folder 31
Parking and Commuting - State Employees, 1973-1974 .
Box 5 Folder 1
Transportation - Virginia Department of Transportation (Miscellaneous), 1972-1973 .
Box 5 Folder 2
National Transportation Study - Meeting, 1972 .
Box 5 Folder 3
National Transportation Study, 1974 .
Box 5 Folder 4
Transportation and Public Saftey - Task Force 1972 .
Box 5 Folder 5
transportation and Public Saftey - Secretary's Staff Meeting, 1972-1974 .
Box 5 Folder 6
Urban High Density Traffic Program (Highway), 1974 .
Box 5 Folder 7
University of Virginia - Speech, 1976 .
Box 5 Folder 8
University of Virginia and Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Virginia Transportation (Planning and Research Workshop, VPI), 1973 .
Box 5 Folder 9
Virginia Aviation Conference - The Homestead, 1975 .
Box 5 Folder 10
Virginia Programs, 1974 .
Box 5 Folder 11
Virginia Association of Traffic Engineers, 1973-1975 .
Box 5 Folder 12
Virginia Highway and Transportation Conference - Virginia Military Institute, 1977 .
Box 5 Folder 13
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Transportation Researh Projects, 1972-1974 .
Box 5 Folder 14
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University of Virginia Steering Committee, 1973-1974 .
Box 5 Folder 15
Virginia Metropolitan Areas Transportation Study Commission (House Bill 364), 1975 .
Box 5 Folder 16
Virginia Petroleum Industries - New Orleans, 1974 .
Box 5 Folder 17
Warrenton By-Pass, 1973 .
Box 5 Folder 18
Wayside Theater - Middletown, Virginia, 1973-1974 .
Box 5 Folder 19
Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, 1974 .
Box 5 Folder 20
Rail - Washington/Richmond Corridor Study (High Speed Passenger Service), 1972-1973 .
Box 5 Folder 21
Waynesboro JC's - General Wayne Hotel (Speech), 1974 .
Box 5 Folder 22
Whitham, Wayna A. - Memorandum to Agency Heads, 1972-1976 .
Box 5 Folder 23
Williams, Ernest Wells - Arlington, Virginia, 1972-1973 .
Box 5 Folder 24
Winchester Rotary Club - Speech, 1977 .
Box 5 Folder 25
Youthful Offenders, Services to Youthful Offenders - Study Commission (House Joint Resolution 133), 1972 .
Box 6 Folder 1
Penn Central Railroad, 1972-1976 .
Box 6 Folder 2
Penn Central - Interstate Commerce Commission (Eastern shore-Northeastern rail road abandonment), 1974 .
Box 6 Folder 3
Penn Central Railroad - Maintenance on Delmarva Line, 1974 .
Box 6 Folder 4
Penn Central - Interstate Commerce Commission (Winchester, Virginia - Martinsburg, West Virginia Abandonment, 1974-1975 .
Box 6 Folder 5
Photography - Transportation and Public Saftey Committee, 1973 .
Box 6 Folder 6
Privacy and Security of Information - Cabinet Study, 1974 .
Box 6 Folder 7
"PRT" System (People Mover), 1973 .
Box 6 Folder 8
Recycling, 1973 .
Box 6 Folder 9
Relocation Assistance - Federal, 1970 .
Box 6 Folder 10
Richmond - Central Richmond Association, 1973-1974 .
Box 6 Folder 11
Richmond Metropolitan Authority - Downtown Expressway, 1972 .
Box 6 Folder 12
Richmond - Petersburg Turnpike, 1972-1977 .
Box 6 Folder 13
Right Turn on Red, 1975 .
Box 6 Folder 14
Ruritan Club - Hanover (Speech), 1975 .
Box 6 Folder 15
SASHTO Annual Convention, 1976 .
Box 6 Folder 16
Shared Office Facilities, 1972 .
Box 6 Folder 17
Shenandoah Airport, 1974 .
Box 6 Folder 18
Shenandoah Valley Manufacturer's Association, 1973 .
Box 6 Folder 19
Skyway-to-Highway - Loudon County, 1974 .
Box 6 Folder 20
Simmons, LD - Waynesboro, Va. (I-64), 1973-1974 .
Box 6 Folder 21
Smith, Irving P. - Smith and Locke Associates, Inc., 1974 .
Box 6 Folder 22
South River Watershed - Flood Control Commission, 1973 .
Box 6 Folder 23
Speakes, Mrs Herbert F. - Woodbridge, Virginia (Parking problems), 1973 .
Box 6 Folder 24
State Police, Department of - Superintendent (Burgess, Colonel), 1972-1976 .
Box 6 Folder 25
State Planning and Community Affairs, Division of - Miscellaneous, 1974-1975 .
Box 6 Folder 26
State Planning and Community Affais, Division of - Director, 1972-1976 .
Box 6 Folder 27
Statistical Coordination - Advisory Committee, 1977 .
Box 6 Folder 28
Staunton, City of, 1972-1973 .
Box 6 Folder 29
Stranded Motorsts (Emergency serices, miscellaneous), 1972 .
Box 6 Folder 30
Studded Tires, 1974-1977 .
Box 6 Folder 31
Temple, T. Edward - Virginia Commonwealth University, 1973-1975 .
Box 6 Folder 32
Transportation - Dulles International Airport, 1972-1973 .
Box 6 Folder 33
National Transportation Week, 1974 .
Box 6 Folder 34
Traffic Clubs of Richmond (Speech), 1974 .
Box 6 Folder 35
Traffic Records - Information System, 1974-1976 .
Box 6 Folder 36
Transportation - Model (Virginia), 1972 .
Box 6 Folder 37
Transportation Conference, Virginia (Governor's), 1973 .
Box 6 Folder 38
Transportation and Public Saftey - Miscellaneous, 1975 .
Box 6 Folder 39
Transportation on Virginia Department of Transportation (Frank E. Mann - subcommittee), 1973-1974 .
Box 6 Folder 40
Transportation, Department of, Virginia (Working File 1973 Bill), 1972-1973 .