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Memorial Presentation on Buffalo Creek Disaster planned at GSC
Mon Feb 15, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 18, 2016

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Glenville State College
(304) 462-4115

GLENVILLE, WV-Billy Jack Dickerson of Man High School will visit Glenville State College to give a presentation about the Buffalo Creek Disaster on Tuesday, February 23 at 12:20 p.m. The presentation will take place in GSC’s Heflin Administration Building Presidents Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

The tragedy occurred in 1972 when a dam failed and flooded the community of Buffalo Creek in Logan County, West Virginia within minutes. The flood waters destroyed everything in its path and took the lives of over 100 people.

For more information about the Buffalo Creek Disaster presentation contact Bob Baber at Bob.Baber@glenville.edu or (304) 462-6331.

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