Flashback: Tracking NRV history
The National High School Chess Championships brought 699 chess players to the Pulaski County High School gym April 24-26, 1987; Roanoke Times file photo.
1987
(25 years ago)
-“Virginia Tech students want the student health service to start distributing condoms and favor banning smoking from the university library, according to a student government poll.”
-“A basketball first is scheduled Saturday, Jan. 23, 1988, at Cassell Coliseum…New River Valley neighbors Virginia Tech and Radford tentatively are scheduled to meet in men’s basketball. It will be the first meeting between the Hokies and Highlanders…”
-“To honor the seven astronauts who perished on board the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986, the Virginia Tech class of 1988 has incorporated into its class ring design an American flag and seven stars representing the astronauts.”
-“Richard Johnson has a long shopping list of things he wants to buy for Claytor Lake State Park: he just doesn’t have the money.”
-“The Postal Service will provide a special postal station in David Bissett Park May 23 … to mark Founder’s Day, the 100th anniversary of Radford’s being renamed to honor John Blair Radford.”
-“Once again, Pulaski County High school’s chess team has become one of the top student chess powers in the United States.”
1962
(50 years ago)
-“Construction of the dam for a new lake at Camp Ottari on the Blue Ridge Scout Reservation in Pulaski County is about complete.”
-“June 3 was set Tuesday night as the date for dedicating the New River Valley Airport.”
The Citadel’s defending champion Southern Conference tennis team swamped Virginia Tech, 8-1, here Tuesday.”
-“A Blacksburg mother of six, Mrs. Orrin R. Magill, will be honored Saturday at Virginia’s 1962 ‘Mother of the year.’ “
1937
(75 years ago)
-“Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the three-room frame school building and contents at Eastview [Floyd County] about 8 o’clock last night.”
-“Roanoke college alumni in the Pulaski area met at the Hotel Pulaski last night … and organized the seventh alumni chapter formed in the last month.”
-“Virginia Tech Cadets were shouting their tribute tonight to a spirited Tech track team which this afternoon accomplished the seemingly impossible – a 69 to 57 victory over a highly favored V. M. I. team…”
-“The Appalachian Electric Power company is rushing to completion lines for electric current in the county. In Willis the citizens are having homes, churches and stores wired…”
-“That ‘thar’s gold and other precious metals in them thar hills,’ is asserted by W. Ryland Martin, Roanoke naturalist, following lengthy prospecting in Floyd and Montgomery counties.”
1912
(100 years ago)
-“The [Blacksburg] town boys gave an ice cream supper Saturday evening on the lawn near the Presbyterian church for the benefit of the baseball team. A good sum was realized.”
-“The Roanoke Cubs have gone in mourning for the game that was lost at Pulaski yesterday afternoon to the High School in that thriving town by the score of 7 to 6.”
-“A sensational rumor has been floating around town to the effect that in order to escape inspection, the students at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute hid all of their guns and that the entire school has been put under arrest as a result.”
-“A number of men from the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company are at the Big Spring Hotel [in Elliston] while putting in a new tank and water cistern for the Norfolk and Western.”
-“Work has begun on the water and sewerage system for the town [Blacksburg]…”
-Compiled by Roanoke Times librarian Belinda Harris
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