Flashback: Tracking NRV history

The Virginia Tech mascot has changed over the years. This is the 1973 version of the Tech Gobbler. — The Roanoke Times file 1973

1987
(25 years ago)
-  “David Braine, described as having a commitment ‘to the academic mission’ and a strong financial operation behind Virginia Tech’s intercollegiate sports program, was named the school’s athletic director Tuesday afternoon.”
-  “When Charlene Curtis handed out equipment to Radford’s women basketball players, she might have considered including crutches along with the jerseys, socks and sneakers.”
-  “Many students dread writing and revising college papers, especially if they have to do them by hand or on a typewriter. Students in a technical writing class at Radford University found the process a lot easier by using laptop computers.”

1962
(50 years ago)
-  “A Virginia Tech class revived a tradition this week. The class of 1952 is having a 10th year reunion, the first held by any class since World War II.”
n  “The big turkey gobbler mascot stood outside the Virginia Tech dressing room, his head under his arm. That’s just the way the Gobblers inside the dressing room felt.” VMI won 14-9.
-  “A honeymoon came to a shattering end for a young Pulaski County couple near here Friday after they had been married but two and a half hours. Both were being treated late Friday at Radford community hospital for injuries received in a grinding rear-end automobile collision.”

1937
(75 years ago)
-  “Antonio Gimenov, Mexico City lawyer, his wife and 10-year-old daughter are patients at the Pulaski hospital, suffering from injuries received when their car skidded and turned over on the Lee highway near here.”
-  “Considerable work on secondary routes in Pulaski county is being done by the state highway department and more is contemplated under WPA, officials stated today.”
-  “The Neighborhood Theatre, Inc., of Richmond, tonight opened its new theatre, The Pulaski, with officials of the company attending.”
-  “The Gobblers of Virginia Tech will be undertaking an ambitious football schedule next season.” Their new opponents are Army, University of North Carolina and Emory and Henry College.
-  “The hunters of the county [Giles] took to the fields and woods on Monday in quest of quail and pheasants.”
-  “Colonel Clesen H. Tenney, commandant of cadets at Virginia Tech, yesterday presented to the Tech cadet corps at a regimental formation a football banner. The handsome present is the gift of Col. Tenney.”

1912
(100 years ago)
-  “V. P. I. defeated University of West Virginia here Saturday afternoon in the last game of the season on the home grounds by a score of 41 to 0, but it was not until the second half that the Techs were able to score.”
-  “A convention of physicians and surgeons, of Montgomery county, was held at Christiansburg, Wednesday.”
-  “That was a serious wreck which occurred in the Pulaski yard of the Norfolk & Western railway, early this morning … when a freight train running as extra No. 1041 was derailed and eight cars were wrecked.”
-  “An important meeting of the Blacksburg Chamber of Commerce will be held Monday evening, November 25th, in the mayor’s office, when officers will be elected, committees appointed and plans outlined for the industrial and financial development of the town.”
-  “Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Kirk and son, Roscoe Ellett, have moved onto their large plantation in the Auburn district.”
-  “The ‘Music Lovers Club’ has been organized here [Christiansburg], the membership of which includes a large number of the musical women and girls of the town.”

-Compiled by Roanoke Times librarian Belinda Harris

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