Leontyne ‘Gaye’ Clay Peck and her husband, Lyle, display a few of the items they recently donated to the Mary F. Shipper Library.
In the past several months, Potomac State College’s Mary F. Shipper Library has received new donations of local history materials for our collection from alumni and members of the community.
Several boxes were gifted by Leontyne ‘Gaye’ Clay Peck. They were filled with research notes from her 30 plus years of experience presenting African American Cultural Programs and Family Genealogy Stories; memorabilia from her childhood in Piedmont and even American jazz musician and Piedmont native, Don Redman’s West Virginia Music Hall of Fame trophy from 2009. The Peck collection has filled a gap in local materials concerning African American history in the local and surrounding area.
From Norma Newbraugh, we received her compiled records of Piedmont High School graduates, greatly expanding our Piedmont materials available in the Library.
The Wilkinsons (John- class of ‘78; Pam- class of ‘79) generously donated several PSC-related documents and realia to the library from their time spent at the College.
And finally, Tom Kooken (class of ’62) and Pat McCarty have gifted us with their new book, “Piedmont, West Virginia Historical Narratives 1820-1872.”
Thank you to each of the individuals listed above for their donations! For more information on these new materials or anything else the library can help with, reach out to us at 304-788-6901 or send an email to psc-library@mail.wvu.edu. If you are interested in donating items to the Mary F. Shipper Library, please contact our library director at ngardner@mail.wvu.edu.