1880 Conference Minutes

October 14, 1880

Huntington, West Virginia

Your committee, after consultation with various parties and testing the sentiment of our conference, have concluded that the time for definite action has come. We recommend the appointment of a committee of ten to solicit subscriptions toward an Institution of Academic grade for both sexes to be located south of the Little Kanawha River. The subscriptions taken to be void, unless the sum of $5,000 shall be secured in reliable pledges. We recommend the appointment of a Board of Control to be composed of the Presiding Elders of the Conference, and one layman for each district. This Board shall take charge of the subscriptions, collect and control the same when reported by the Soliciting Committee, they having secured the full $5,000. If in the judgment of the Board of Control it is deemed necessary to purchase or erect a building, they shall have power to do so and commence a school and control the same until the next session of our conference.

The organization provided for in the above recommendation was composed as follows:

Soliciting Committee:

W.M. Fitzwater
J.W. Bedford
L.A. Martin
G.W. Atkinson
L.H. Jordan
W.G. Riheldaffer
H.W.Hovey
George C. Wilding
G.C. Shaeffer
Dr. A. Workman

Board of Control:

The Presiding Elders

Laymen:

George C. Sturgiss
John M. Davis
John Bailie
C.F. Scott
H.C. McWhorter
Thomas Medford
A.M. Poundstone
B.F. Swisher
Wm. Nuttall

Haught, T.W. (1940) West Virginia Wesleyan College: The first fifty years.