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WEST VIRGINIANS OF THE YEAR - Charleston Gazette Since 1951 |
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sundaygazettemail.com Here are the previous Sunday Gazette-Mail West Virginians of the Year: 1951 OKEY L. PATTESON, 23rd governor, chief creator of the West Virginia Turnpike. 1952 WALTER S. HALLANAN, former Huntington Herald-Dispatch editor, state official, oilman, chairman of 1952 Republican National Convention. 1953 ADM. FELIX B. STUMP, from Parkersburg, commander of Navy's Pacific Fleet. 1954 GEN. CHARLES E. YEAGER, from Lincoln County, World War II air hero and test pilot, first to break the sound barrier. 1955 LEONARD RIGGLEMAN, longtime president of Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston), moved the school from Barboursville. 1956 JOHN D. HOBLITZELL JR., of Parkersburg, education leader, appointed U.S. senator. 1957 MICHAEL L. BENEDUM, "the Great Wildcatter," Bridgeport native, oil millionaire, philanthropist. 1958 WILLIAM J. THOMPSON, Kanawha circuit judge, advocate of probation. 1959 JERRY WEST, SAM HUFF, West Virginia basketball and football heroes. 1960 FRED OTTO, Kanawha Valley civic leader, manager who helped save the DuPont Belle plant from phase-out. 1961 CHARLES HODEL, orphan who lost a leg, became dynamic publisher of Beckley newspapers. 1962 PEARL BUCK, Nobel Prize-winning author, born in Pocahontas County. 1963 CYRUS VANCE, veteran U.S. diplomat, later secretary of state.
1964 SEN. JENNINGS RANDOLPH, member of Congress since the 1930s, chief author of Appalachian Regional
Commission.
1967 REV. HILARION CANN, BISHOP FRED HOLLOWAY, RABBI SAMUEL COOPER and BISHOP
WILBURN CAMPBELL, four state leaders in church efforts for civil rights.
1968 PHYLLIS CURTIN, from Clarksburg, GEORGE CRUMB JR. from Charleston, opera soprano and
composer.
1969 DR. DANIEL HALE, Princeton physician and conservationist, created flood-control dam and safe water
supply.
1970 WILLIAM T. BROTHERTON JR., of Charleston, state Senate president, creator of the Legislature's
corruption-probing commission.
1971 DR. JOHN C. NORMAN, Charleston-born surgeon and medical researcher.
1972 ARCH A. MOORE JR., 28th governor, dynamic in his first term.
1973 ARNOLD MILLER, Cabin Creek disabled miner, elected president of the UMW after crusading against union
corruption.
1974 SEN. ROBERT C. BYRD, who rose from Raleigh County poverty to leadership in Congress.
1975 DR. JAMES HARLOW, physicist, 16th president of WVU.
1976 JAMES DAVID BARBER, Charleston native, Duke University political scientist, author of books on
presidency.
1977 SEN. ROBERT C. BYRD, chosen again after he attained national power as Senate majority leader.
1978 MARY LEE SETTLE, from Charleston, renowned novelist.
1979 MAURICE G. BROOKS, WVU biologist, author of four books on mountain wildlife.
1980 CHARLES PETERS JR., from Charleston, former legislator, publisher of The Washington Monthly.
1981 SHARON ROCKEFELLER, public broadcasting advocate, wife of Sen. Jay Rockefeller.
1982 ARTHUR RECHT, Wheeling circuit judge who mandated equality between rich and poor county school
systems.
1983 JAMES "BUCK" HARLESS, Mingo County lumber and coal mogul, philanthropist.
1984 MARY LOU RETTON, from Fairmont, Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics.
1985 LOUISE McNEIL PEASE, from Pocahontas County, state poet laureate.
1986 DALE NITZSCHKE, president of Marshall University, leader in innovative educational concepts.
1987 ROBERTA EMERSON, curator who expanded Huntington Museum of Art.
1988 DON NEHLEN, football coach who led WVU to an 11-0 season.
1989 MICHAEL CAREY, U.S. attorney who cleaned up corruption in Mingo County and state government.
1990 SEN. ROBERT C. BYRD, chosen a third time for bringing billions of dollars' worth of federal projects to West
Virginia.
1991 SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER, legislator, secretary of state, governor and U.S. senator.
1992 LYELL CLAY, HAZEL RUBY McQUAIN, CHARLIE ERICKSON, JOAN EDWARDS and other
philanthropists "The Givers" who support West Virginia projects.
1993 The entire WVU FOOTBALL TEAM, for another undefeated season.
1994 HENRY LOUIS "SKIP" GATES, Mineral County native who became Harvard's top black scholar, won a
MacArthur "genius award" and wrote a book about his boyhood in West Virginia.
1995 ROBERT C. FRASURE, from Morgantown, a deputy assistant secretary of state killed while trying to negotiate
peace in Bosnia's civil war.
1996 GASTON CAPERTON, upon completing two terms as a successful, progressive governor, whose tenure brought
economic growth and few scandals.
1997 ELIZABETH HALLANAN, one of America's few female federal judges, who reformed child support and voided
a state plan for government-sponsored religion in schools.
1998 ADMIRAL JOSEPH LOPEZ, a Fayette County native who rose through the ranks to command U.S. forces in
Bosnia and the Mediterranean.
1999 BOB PRUETT, Marshall University football coach who selflessly turned down big-money offers and his
CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM.
2000 JOHN CHAMBERS JR., president of the Internet giant, Cisco Systems, which enables computers to
communicate, thus spurring the Information Age.
2001 The WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD, for a year of duty against floods, forest fires and terrorism.
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