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| Winter 2003 Issue |
Alumnus makes tribute for faculty WVU alumnus Dr. George V. Podelco has presented
a memorial for several people who made an impact on his life. He made a contribution to the WVU Libraries'
Special Initiative to have plaques with the names of 13 professors and
others attached to chairs in the Downtown Campus Library. "I started thinking about how much
I owed to West Virginia University, and particularly those professors
who inspired me," Podelco said. "I thought it would be nice
to pay tribute to them." Ten of the people Podelco is honoring were
in the Political Science Department when he was a student in the late
1950s. The others include an economics professor, a philosophy professor
and a librarian. The latter individual played an instrumental
role in Podelco developing a love for reading and thus his success in
life. "Reading is the foundation of education,"
Podelco said. Podelco graduated from WVU in 1959 with
an AB degree in political science. He later received his doctorate from
the University of Maryland, College Park. He recently retired as executive
director of a dual government agency, the Area Agency on Aging and the
Community Action Agency. He and his wife, Mary Lou, live in Onancock,
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