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Upcoming events
- NY-NY Metro Chapter - WVU vs. Pitt Game Watch
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Latitude Bar & Lounge, 783 Eighth Ave., New York, NY - Central PA Chapter - WVU vs. Pitt Game Watch
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Arooga’s, Rt. 22 - NY-NJ Metro Chapter - WVU vs. UConn Game Watch
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Latitude Bar & Lounge, 783 Eighth Ave., New York, NY - NY-NY Metro Chapter - WVU vs. Cincinnati Game Watch
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Latitude Bar & Lounge (3rd Fl), 783 Eighth Ave., New York, NY - WVU Alumni Association's Chapters Food Drive & Game Watch
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Chapters Nationwide - Low Country Mountaineers - Community Service Project
- Saturday, February 27th, 2010
- Low Country Mountaineers - WVU vs. Cincinnati
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Matty's Sports Bar, Mt. Pleasant, SC - Complete Calendar of Events
What's going on...
This new alumni center will be a place where you feel like you do when you hear the Alma Mater sung.
The WVU Alumni Association, in partnership with the WVU Foundation, Inc., is embarking upon a $12 million capital campaign to build a new home for Mountaineers. Learn how you can support the new alumni center.
Alumni and friends will take pride in finding a unique, new home - one that evokes the history, tradition and character of the downtown campus, including a landmark bell tower, reminiscent of Woodburn Hall. It also will provide a spacious and warm environment for visiting and reminiscing with old friends and classmates, for celebrating special events, watching ballgames, or attending meetings, conferences and reunions.
Alumni spotlight
Not just anyone can have the nickname “Head Crab” and get away with it – but West Virginia native Paul Farmer can. And don’t let his nickname fool you – he’s no crab, in fact, he’s anything but.
For the last 28 years, Farmer has been the “crab” behind the scenes of the Washington, D.C. National Capital Area Chapter (NCAC) Crab Feast. Farmer is there to make sure the more than 800 attendees walk away from the annual event satisfied by carting in masses of mouth-watering food. The highlight? Heaps of Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs – steamed to perfection, of course.
Farmer was born and raised in the southern West Virginia metropolis of Mullens. After graduating in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, Farmer took advanced ROTC and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After attending the Engineer Officers School in Fort Belvior, Va., he served two years of military service and returned to the Mountain State to work as an engineer for the West Virginia Highway Commission.
Farmer then relocated to Washington, D.C., in 1960 to attend George Washington University Law School. A student by night, Farmer spent his days as a project engineer on major bridge and highway projects for the D.C. government.
After graduating from law school, Farmer developed into a Washington Redskins fan, which helped him keep in touch with several WVU alumni in the area.