Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

This addendum includes records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and performance programs from conferences and festivals from the West Virginia Music Educators Association from 1985-2005.

This addendum includes Executive Board Secretary's minutes (1935-1995), records from various affiliate organizations and divisions within the WVMEA (i.e. the WV Bandmasters' Association, the WV Vocal Association, and Music in Our Schools Month) (1930-2007), and recordings from various All-State and Honors choirs, bands, and orchestras (1983-2003) from the WVMEA In-Service Conferences.

This addendum includes records, meeting minutes, and other papers from the West Virginia Music Teachers Association, a state chapter of the Music Teachers National Association, from 2003-2008. Also included in this addendum is an unboxed commemorative plaque from the Music Teachers National Association recognizing the WVMTA's 40 years of affiliation as of 11/03/2006.

This addendum includes photographs and negatives, such as negatives of the 1978 Fourth of July and the 1979 Helvetia Fair (1978-1979); oral history releases (1979); a deed pertaining to Upshur and Randolph Counties (1874); Helvetia Farm Women's Club records, record book, and correspondence (1950-2004); Margrit Schneider, nee Steiger, Swiss and American legal papers, including naturalization certificate (1928-1961); Favri correspondence and a typescript Favri family history (1998, undated); and Helvetia: The History of a Swiss Village in the Mountains of West Virginia by David H. Sutton, with two CDs of images used in the book (2010).

This series includes books (mostly foreign language editions) and papers.

This addendum includes recordings of various All-State and Honors groups from the 2012 and 2016 West Virginia Music Educators Association In-Service Conferences, WVMEA Executive Board records and paperwork (1959-2007), other paperwork and newspaper clippings related to advocacy, Music in Our Schools Month, WVMEA's legislative concerns, and Continuing Music Education (1998-2017). Also included is an oversize folder containing folios with articles on continuing music education and on the pros and cons of block scheduling (1998), a 2015 WVMEA In-Service Conference poster, and two proclamations from the Governor of West Virginia announcing Music in West Virginia Schools Week (2004) and Arts in West Virginia Schools Month (2005).

This addendum includes assorted professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and other material regarding Giardina's career and personal life.

Case files (including maps, mining applications, court filings, supplemental case information, etc.) and notes by Rauch related to case no. 2003-40-SMB: West Virginia Highland Conservancy v. West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and Coal-Mac, Inc. Material was used for teaching.