Jack Bowman enrolled at WVU in 1956 and served as president of the freshman class. He was elected student body president in 1959-1960. Bowman was a member of the social fraternity Phi Kappa Psi, Helvetia, Sphinx and Mountain. He also was a member of the Army ROTC.

After graduation, Bowman attended the WVU College of Law where he served as associate editor of the West Virginia Law Review. As one of three outstanding graduates, Bowman received the Patrick Duffy Koontz Award upon graduation in 1963.

Bowman served four years with the Judge Advocate Generals Corps in the U.S. Army after graduation. After his service, he practiced law briefly in Charleston and then became the Deputy Commissioner of Workers Compensation in West Virginia, and in 1974, Bowman was named the first Administrative Director of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

In 1979 Bowman joined the WVU College of Law faculty where he taught for 23 years. From 1990 to 2000 he was the Hale J. Posten Professor of Law, and served as the Jackson Kelly Professor of Law from 2000 until his retirement. He was named Professor of the Year by seven graduating classes.

In 1983, 1993, and 2002, Bowman was awarded the highest honor the State Bar can bestow upon a member, The West Virginia State Bar Certificate of Merit. He was also awarded the Harrison Tweed award for outstanding contributions to continuing legal education in America from the American Law Institute & American Bar Association in 1995. In addition to numerous awards and honors, Bowman was honored with inclusion into the prestigious West Virginia University Order of the Vandalia– the highest honor bestowed by the University

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Debra graduated from Petersburg High School in 1964 and was honored by being one of the first graduates named to the Hall of Fame in 2007. She graduated from West Virginia University. She joined the WVU School of Nursing faculty in 1975 and achieved a Doctor of Education degree with a specialty in health services administration in 1984. While serving as a professor in the WVU School of Nursing, she initiated the Parish Nurse Program.

Keith grew up on the family farms at Medley and Martin, helping his mother (a revered elementary teacher) and grandmother with gardening and food processing and his father and uncle William Inskeep with their multiple farm enterprises. He was especially involved in planting and cultivating corn, harvesting hay and grain crops, milking cows and all aspects of raising chickens and ranged turkeys. He was active in 4-H Club, where he learned to shear sheep and became a West Virginia 4-H All Star. He attended the one-room school in Medley for five years and earned the Golden Horseshoe in West Virginia History in eighth grade at Petersburg High School, where he was Salutatorian of the Class of 1955. Keith completed an A.A. degree in Agriculture at Potomac State College (’57) and a B.S. in Dairy Science at WVU (’59). He earned an M.S. in Genetics (’60) and a Ph.D. in Endocrinology (’64) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Keith returned to WVU as an Assistant Professor in the College of Agriculture and Forestry in August of 1964 and spent his entire teaching and research career as an animal husbandman and reproductive physiologist at WVU. He was an original member of the interdisciplinary Faculty of Reproductive Physiology formed in 1965 and served as its volunteer Chair until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in December of 2016. During his tenure, Keith developed new courses in Endocrinology of Reproduction and Current Literature in Animal Science and taught a variety of courses in animal production and management. He did research with cattle and sheep, much of it at WVU’s Reedsville and Wardensville farms and in cooperation with producers on their farms. He guided graduate students from throughout the U.S.A. and from several foreign countries. Their successes and research papers gave him an international reputation in reproductive physiology and management of ruminant livestock. He received the L. E. Casida Award for Excellence in Graduate Education from the American Society of Animal Science in 1999. Keith was a co-author of, and participated in, the Allegheny Highlands Project in the 1970’s, promoting improvements in ruminant production systems in nine WV counties. From 1975 to the early 1990’s, he participated in an exchange program with Spain and he traveled to speak and consult in several other countries. In 1985, he and Dr. Robert Baker successfully transferred embryos into cows without ovaries that subsequently calved in February of 1986. He received the WVU Benedum Award for Distinguished Research in Biomedical Sciences in 1996 and a USDA Superior Performance in Research Award in 1999. From 1998 through 2015, he participated in the Small Ruminant Development Project that stopped the decline in sheep numbers in West Virginia. He guided research that led to FDA approval of systems to deliver hormones to induce out-of-season breeding in sheep. His research had global impact and is widely used today. He was named a Fellow of the American Society of Animal Science in 1998 and received their Retiree Distinguished Service Award in 2019. He served as President of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in 1992-1993 and received its Distinguished Service Award in 2003. Keith was a Distinguished Alumnus of Potomac State College (2006) and was inscribed on the Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall there (2010). In 2007, he was named to the Hall of Honor at Petersburg High School and enshrined in the West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry Hall of Fame.

Mrs. Shobe was a 1929 graduate of Petersburg High School, St. John's Junior College, Shepherd College, and West Virginia University, where she received her master's degree in education. She served as a Grant County school teacher for 36 years and retired in 1971. She established the Harrison and Fleta Memorial Scholarship in 1984 at Alderson-Broaddus College to benefit a graduate from Grant, Hardy, and Pendleton counties each year. Mrs. Shobe was a charter member and first Worthy Matron of the Petersburg Chapter Order of the Eastern Star No. 146, life member of the 4-H All-Stars and former 4-H club leader for many years. She was also member of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, National Society of Colonial Dames XVII Century, a member of the Board of Governors at Alderson-Broaddus, and the Grant County Historical Society.

Mr. Moomau was a graduate of Petersburg High School in 1939 and Strayer Business College in Baltimore, Md. He was a lieutenant (j.g.) in the US Navy Air Corps serving as a B-24 Liberator pilot during World War II. He was with the Fleet Air Wing 7, VP112 and was stationed in North Africa and England. While in England he flew missions on long range anti-submarine patrols.

Mr. Moomau was a former CEO and president of the Grant County Bank and chairman of the board of Highlands Bankshares, an FDIC examiner, member of the West Virginia State Banking Board, member of the Advisory Board for the American Bankers Association, member of the Petersburg Industrial Development Corp., past president and treasurer of the Kiwanis Club of Petersburg, the 2001 recipient of the Kiwanis Hixson Fellowship Award, deacon of the Petersburg Presbyterian Church, member of the Advisory Board of the Potomac Council of Boy Scouts, member of American Legion Post No. 78, and VFW Post 6454 and member of the Grant County Pilot's Association.

Dr. Veach graduated from Maysville Elementary School, St. John's Academy, Petersburg High School in 1934 and West Virginia University in 1938 where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He established Veach Townsend Clinic in Petersburg and delivered 2,042 babies. He served as the Grant County health officer for 33 years. He retired in 1974. He served in World War II as a captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

John B. Hawse born on to Charles Edward Hawse and Dora Funkhouser Hawse on May 27, 1920 in Baker, WV. Byron, as he was affectionally called, graduated from Petersburg High School in 1939 with honors, as an outstanding basketball and baseball player. He was also the senior class valedictorian.

Byron enrolled at Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, WV. On 7 December 1941, the Japanese bombed the US Naval Port at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, engaging the United States in World War II. On the following Monday, Byron left college and enlisted in the US Army Air Corp. Byron after flight school in Sherman, TX received his overseas assignment and was stationed at the US Air Base at Charleville, Australia where he flew Texan T-6 recon aircraft in the Pacific in search of Japanese naval ships. When the war ended in 1945, returning home with a stopover in Cincinnati, OH he married his lovely bride Anna Lee Rexrode from Petersburg on 27 May 1945. Their companionship produced three children, son, John Lee Hawse and two daughters, Teresa Hawse Simmer and Rebecca Ann Hawse Schaeffer. Following the war, Byron played his favorite sport, baseball, for Petersburg for seven years, winning the Potomac Valley Conference Championship in 1953.

His employment, civic and charity history include the following: President Grant County Board of Education, membership in the American Legion, Kiwanis Club, Past Master Petersburg Masonic Lodge No. 145 AF & AM, active in the choir and taught Sunday School at Main Street United Methodist Church, Red Cross Blood Donor 10 gallon Lifetime, and was appointed Post Master of Petersburg, WV by President Harry S. Truman in 1949 where he held the office for 33 years until retiring in 1982. He was also a past President of the National Post Masters Association 1962-1964.

Bob graduated from Petersburg High School in 1958, and was a graduate of Potomac State College where he played basketball, Fairmont State College, and George Washington University, Washington, DC, where he received a MBA in Health Care Administration.  After a residency at Prince George’s General Hospital in Cheverly, MD, he was employed as Administrator/CEO at Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg from January 1, 1965, to December 31, 2010.  His 46-year career was recognized by the American College of Healthcare Executives as “the longest tenured hospital CEO on record in the United States.” He was presented the American flag which was flown over the United States Capitol in his honor, and Gov. Bob Wise presented the Distinguished West Virginian Award to him.

He was a member of the WV Hospital Association Board of Trustees and served as Chairman of the Board in 1978-80 and 1997-98. He was instrumental in the formation of the Committee on Small and Rural Hospitals within the association and served as chairman from 1983-89. He received the WVHA Excellence in Leadership Award in 1994 and 2004.

In 1974 he served as Delegate to the American Hospital Association and served on the Regional Advisory Board for several terms. He also served as a member of AHA’s Advisory Panel on Small and Rural Hospitals, and member and chairman of the Governing Council of the Section on Small and Rural Hospitals.  He was appointed to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health.  He was awarded the 2006 AHA Board of Trustees Award, their 2008 Senior Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award, and was recognized in 2010 for “A Career of Outstanding Leadership.”  Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin named him a Distinguished West Virginian in 2010.  He was a Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives.

Bob was an active member of the Petersburg Presbyterian Church where he was an elder, trustee, and treasurer and a member of the choir since he was a teenager. Other memberships included the Board of Governors for Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College; Board of Trustees, E. A. Hawse Health; Grant County Ambulance Authority; Grant County Planning Commission; Grant Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, Petersburg Lodge #145 A.F. and A.M. (Past Master); Petersburg Chapter #146 Order of the Eastern Star (Past Patron); Grant County Arts Council; Patterson Creek Ruritan Club; Grant County Historical Society, and associate member of the WV Association of Retired School Employees and the Grant County Association of Retired School Employees.

Robert L. Fouch is the author of two middle-grade children’s books, “Christmas Carol the Defenders of Claus” (2017), and the sequel, “Christmas Carol the Shimmering Elf” (2019), both from Sky Pony Press, plus the independently published Bigfoot adventure "Little & Big." He grew up in the hills of West Virginia but has made Long Island his home for the past 25 years. He’s an assistant news editor at Newsday and likes nothing better than making fellow editors groan with a punny headline. He has a bachelor’s degree in editorial journalism from Marshall University in Huntington, WV.

Dr. Joseph (Josh) Alexander is a retired medical writer and career biomedical scientist with over two decades of research experience in cancer biology and translational medical research. He held faculty appointments in the Endocrine Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Tufts University School of Medicine. He has published primary papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Neuron, Journal of Clinical Investigation, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Endocrinology, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology. In 2014, he closed his consulting firm and relocated from Boston back to his home in Grant County where he manages his family-owned 900-acre beef cattle farm.

Dr. Peters specializes in eye care for the entire family including contact lenses, ocular disease and sports vision. He graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Salus) in 1988 and completed his undergraduate work at West Virginia University. He is the author of the book, “See To Play: The Eyes of Elite Athletes” and co-author of the “See To Play Vision Concussion Protocol”. He is the team eye doctor for the NC Football Club, the NC Courage and Carolina Mudcats. He has also been the team eye doctor for the NHL Carolina Hurricanes (and has a Stanley Cup ring to prove it!), the Durham Bulls, the USA Baseball team, the Carolina Cobras arena football team, the NC State Wolfpack teams and several local high school teams. His work has been published in many professional journals and he has lectured nationally. Dr. Peters plays guitar and is in a contemporary service band at his church.

Dr. Jordan Musser graduated from West Virginia University with a Masters in Math and a Masters in Engineering. He also received his Doctorate degree in Mathematics. Since graduation, he has worked as a research engineer for the federal government in Morgantown.

Dr. Jordan Musser graduated from West Virginia University with a Masters in Math and a Masters in Engineering. He also received his Doctorate degree in Mathematics. Since graduation, he has worked as a research engineer for the federal government in Morgantown.

Dr. Amun Makani is a Harvard-trained, double board-certified orthopedic surgeon and orthopedic sports medicine specialist. He has acted as team physician for the NFL's New England Patriots, MLB's Boston Red Sox, MLS' New England Revolution, and several colleges. Dr. Makani is an active fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Makani offers state-of-the-art diagnostics and innovative, personalized care to treat painful orthopedic issues and sports injuries including complex knee cartilage and ligamentous injuries, shoulder pathology including rotator cuff injuries and advanced arthritis in all major joins. Dr. Makani graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University and was inducted into the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society for his achievement in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Makani earned his Doctor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He was selected as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, an honor given to the top of one's medical school class. He was selected to complete his orthopedic surgery residency at the ivy league University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. Following his residency, Dr. Makani completed additional rigorous fellowship training in orthopedic sports medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Makani also earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Jo Ann Snyder Harman graduated from Petersburg High School in 1958 where she was Salutatorian of her class, President of the Student Body, Editor of the Viking Log, and Miss Petro-Schola. She graduated from Potomac State College, and summa cum laude from Fairmont State College in 1962. Her teaching career began at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia. She returned to Petersburg High School in the fall of 1964 and retired there in 2002. She received her master’s degree from West Virginia University in 1986.

At PHS she taught French, English, Speech, Advanced Placement Literature, and Gifted Education. As sponsor of the French Club, she planned numerous trips for her students to Canada and to France, Belgium, and England. Her students enjoyed many trips to shows in Washington and Baltimore. She also sponsored the National Honor Society, Future Medical Careers Club, Candy Stripers, the literary magazine, the Viking Log, and the annual Voice of Democracy audio essay contest. The students in her gifted classes wrote the state’s centennial program for Pearl S. Buck and performed it at her birthplace in Hillsboro, WV, and other places in the state. She was the supervising teacher for student teachers from France in the Amity Aide international exchange program.

In 1996 she was named West Virginia Teacher of the Year and participated in International Space Camp at the U. S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the National Teacher Forum at the U. S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. In 1997 she and four of her students participated In the China-USA Conference on Education in Los Angeles, California. She was president of the PHS Faculty Senate. She was named West Virginia English/Language Arts Teacher of the Year in 1998 and the USA TODAY ALL TEACHER TEAM in 2001.

She taught college courses for Shepherd College South Branch from 1986-2005 and courses for Potomac State/West Virginia University at the Petersburg site from 2005-2010. She has presented programs concerning Pearl S. Buck frequently, and in 2016 she was honored to be a part of the Pearl S. Buck Living Gateway Conference in Morgantown. She has continued to be an independent French translator.

Her professional organizations include West Virginia (and Grant County) Association of Retired School Employees, President 2016-2018; Delta Kappa Gamma Education Society, Chapter President 1998-2004, Northeast Regional Director 2005-2009; West Virginia Humanities Council Program Committee 2001-2007; West Virginia Public Radio Friends Board 2006-2012; and Grant County Schools Steering Committee Chairman.

Her community involvement includes Grant County Public Library Board, Chairman 2011-present; Grant Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, Scholarship Chairman; Grant County 4-H All Stars, Past State Regional Scout and current county President; Grant County 4-H Leaders’ Association, Treasurer; Grant County CEOS Council, President; Lahmansville CEOS Club, Treasurer, Grant County Family Issues Task Force, Past President; Patterson Creek Ruritan Club, Past President; Grant County Performing Arts Fund-raising Committee; collaborative committee for Energy Express; Petersburg Presbyterian Church, Clerk of Session, Elder; Grant County Church Women United, reporter; member of Petersburg Chapter #146, Order of the Eastern Star, Past Matron, Past Grand Officer, Past Grand Representative to Ontario, Canada and State Scholarship Chair for five years. In 2018 she received the West Virginia Governor’s Service Award for her volunteer efforts.

Federal Judge M. Blane Michael graduated from Petersburg High School in 1961, West Virginia University in 1965 and New York University School of Law in 1968. He worked at the Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell from 1968 to 1971. He served as assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, from 1971 to 1972.

Michael returned to West Virginia in 1972 to care for his ailing father. He was appointed special U.S. assistant attorney, Northern District of West Virginia, in 1972. He operated a solo law practice in Petersburg from 1973 to 1975, then became a law clerk to Judge Robert Maxwell in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia in 1975-76.

After his father's death, Michael moved to Charleston and served as special counsel to Govenor Jay Rockefeller from 1977 to 1980. Michael ran political campaigns for Rockefeller and US Senator Robert C. Byrd. He joined the Charleston law firm Jackson & Kelly in 1981 and was a partner in the firm until 1993.

On October 1, 1993, Michael was confirmed as a judge for the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, which is the only level of appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court. When Michael was nominated by President Bill Clinton for the lifetime judicial appointment in 1993, he was among the first nominees by a Democratic president in more than a decade. He was one of eight West Virginians to have served on the Fourth Circuit up to that point.

Michael maintained an office in the Robert C  in Charleston, traveling to Richmond for court sessions several times a year. States included in the Fourth District are Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina. He wrote the 2004 opinion in East Tennessee Natural Gas Co. v. Sage, an important case related to eminent domain.

Andrew was Valedictorian of his class in 2000. Upon completing high school, Andrew attended the University of Pennsylvania earning Bachelor’s degrees in Geology and Biochemistry with honors in 2004. After completing his undergraduate work, Andrew attended the University of Chicago for his doctoral study in geophysical sciences. He completed his Ph.D. in 2010 with a dissertation titled Forms following functions: exploring the evolution of morphological diversity in seed plant reproductive structures. Following his time at the University of Chicago, Andrew conducted postdoctoral research at Yale University until 2014 on projects such as fossil conifer descriptions, conifer phylogenetics, conifer reproductive biology, molecular dating techniques, and character evolution.  He has traveled all over the world in his field of study, Paleobotany.

Upon leaving Yale, Andrew became an Assistant Professor at Brown from 2014-2019 working in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. In 2019, Andrew left Brown to become an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Geological Sciences department, where he is currently. Throughout Andrew’s tenure, he has been invited to speak at various seminars in the country and abroad. He has been an author or co-author on over 30 peer reviewed publications.

Andrew is currently working in the area of morphological evolution where he investigates how interactions among form, function, and environment have influenced evolutionary patterns in plant reproductive structures over million-year time scales. This approach requires synthesizing information from different disciplines, and my work uses approaches from paleontology, biomechanics, phylogenetics, and biogeography.