Bio – Haught, Thomas W.

Haught, Thomas W. (A.B., M.A.; Sc.D.)

Haught, Thomas W. collage edited

Born: November 25, 1871 (Tyler County, WV)

Died: August 28, 1957 (Buckhannon, WV)


Education:

    • West Virginia Conference Seminary, 1894
    • A.B. West Virginia University, 1896
    • Harvard University for 1 ½ years (1899-1901)
    • West Virginia Wesleyan College, Hon. M.A. (1916)
    • West Virginia Wesleyan College, Hon. Sci.D. (1929)
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Served:  1896-1941

    • Acting Dean and Registrar     (1910)
    • Acting President      (1913-14; 1922-23; 1926-27)
    • Advisory Committee: Alumni      (1910)
    • Advisory Committee: Faculty      (1910)
    • Athletic Association, Treasurer     (1909)
    • Dean      (1927-30)
    • Dean and Registrar      (1911-26)
    • Faculty Committee: Admission and Academic Standing (1931-42)
    • Faculty Committee: Advisory     (1931-42)
    • Faculty Committee: Athletic Eligibility  (1919-23; 1929-31)
    • Faculty Committee: Athletics     (1931-42)
    • Faculty Committee: Catalog     (1916-23)
    • Faculty Committee: Class Absences     (1922-23)
    • Faculty Committee: College Standing      (1919-31)
    • Faculty Committee: Council on Discipline     (1922-31)
    • Faculty Committee: Curricula     (1925-31)
    • Faculty Committee: Curriculum     (1931-32)
    • Faculty Committee: Fraternity     (1927-29)
    • Faculty Committee: Fraternity-Sorority     (1929-42)
    • Faculty Committee: Freshman Week     (1929-30)
    • Faculty Committee: Honorary Degrees     (1925-31)
    • Faculty Committee: Lecture Course     (1915-22)
    • Faculty Committee: Library     (1922-24; 1943-44)
    • Faculty Committee: Religious Life     (1926-30)
    • Faculty Committee: Standing     (1915-18)
    • Faculty Committee: Summer School     (1916-22; 1928-30)
    • Librarian     (1901-03)
    • Secretary of the Faculty   (1909)
    • Treasurer of Athletic Association     (1911-12)
    • Trustee Committee: History and Archives     (1942-49)
    • Trustee Committee: History, Archives, and Fine Arts  (1949-57)

Taught:

    • Math and English     (1896-97)
    • Pedagogy and Natural Sciences  (1897-99)
    • Professor of Natural Sciences   (1901-12)
    • Professor of Chemistry     (1913-23)
    • Professor of Geology     (1925-26; 1927-42)
    • Professor of Geology Emeritus     (1942-57)
    • Resumed Teaching during the emergency, (1942)

Notes:

  • Was heavily involved with the school for the first sixty years, and represented a great deal of institutional memory. Fortunately for all who would follow, he had a keen sense of the importance of this and recorded it in great detail.
  • The students referred to him as “Our Tommy”.
  • All the while he was actively involved in leadership at the college, he was likewise engaged at First Methodist Church.
  • The Haught Literary Society was inspired by and named after him.

Sources:

    • Catalog: 1896-1957
    • Haught, p. 112
    • Murmurmontis: 1904 p.5 (Bio); 1905 (Librarian, p.18, 197); 1906 -40 1948
    • West Virginia Wesleyan College Bulletin – Supplement (October 1958)
    • Who’s Who in America 1924

Publications:

Haught, T.W. (1940) West Virginia Wesleyan College: First Fifty Years: 1890-1940. West Virginia Wesleyan College: Buckhannon, WV.

Haught, T.W. (1960) West Virginia Wesleyan College: The Sixth Decade: 1940-1950West Virginia Wesleyan College: Buckhannon, WV.