Flashback: Tracking NRV history
In 1987, “Not Shakespeare, the Blacksburg-based rock ‘n’ roll band, has won a nationwide new music contest – along with the MCA recording contract that’s first prize.” The members of the band were (left to right) Jeff Chown, Adam Caperton and George Wade. Picture that ran with the story was this 1985 Roanoke Times file photo.
1987 (25 years ago)
-“Dave Roselle, who began a career in academic administration at Virginia Tech only eight years ago, was named president of the University of Kentucky Tuesday.”
-“The Cinderella season of the Giles basketball team ended Tuesday night in a slow waltz at the Group AA Region IV playoffs…”
-“Heck’s Inc., a department store chain with 10 stores in Virginia, plans to close its Christiansburg, Fairlawn and Bristol stores by early May…”
-“If you love rock music from the land down under, then you’ll want to be at Virginia Tech Saturday night. Hoodoo Gurus, an Australian rock band… will perform in concert…in the Commonwealth Ballroom, Squires Student Center.”
-“Radford University had its best year for fund raising in 1986 as 4,403 donors gave a record $457,000 cash to the Radford University Foundation.”
1962 (50 years ago)
-“The Montgomery County School Board has taken under consideration a proposal to reactivate its driver training program.”
-“West Virginia’s grit and gristle kids, refugees from a hospital ward, sank Virginia Tech’s Southern Conference championship hopes in 20 minutes Saturday night.”
-“Pulaski came back from disaster Saturday night to fight its way into the finals of the Group I-B State Tournament.”
-“The Blacksburg Art Festival, sponsored annually by the Blacksburg Art Association… will be held March 25-29 in the ballroom of Squires Hall on the VPI campus.”
-“The 1962 Radford College choir clinic … is expected to draw approximately 150 community choirs in Southwest Virginia.”
1937 (75 years ago)
-“Pike fishing in New river is the best it has been in years, reports A. E. Shumate, Jr., of Pearisburg.”
Claude S. Weddle, of Floyd, “is a member of the White House police staff under the secret service…”
“Approximately 200 employes of the Pulaski branch of the W. E. Stephens Manufacturing company staged a sit-down strike today…”
-“Maple Shade Inn, one of the Southwest Virginia’s best known hotels, was the scene of a $50,000 blaze Saturday…”
-“Virginia Tech’s 1937 baseball schedule, announced today by Athletic Director W. L. (Monk) Younger, lists 18 games, of which 16 are with Southern Conference teams.”
1912 (100 years ago)
-“Considerable interest is felt in this county [Pulaski] as to the latest rumors concerning the redistricting of the Ninth Congressional District…”
-“An incident never before known in the history of our village [Ellett] occurred here Thursday, the 29th, when this place as the scene of two funerals and burials within two hours of each other.”
-“A phone message from Floyd county says that twenty inches of snow fell on the mountain last night.”
-“All the men about here [Lafayette] are talking about tomato raising, as we are to have a canning factory here soon.”
-“Sheriff W. D. Martin, of Elliston, has arranged to have an office in the court house here [Christiansburg].”
-“With the first game less than three weeks off the prospects are that the ‘Techs will begin the base ball with little, if any practice.”
-Compiled by Roanoke Times librarian Belinda Harris
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