Notes for: Dorothy Belle Upton

Dorothy Belle (Upton) Davis graduated from Victory High School in 1931 and was a graduate of West Virginia University in 1934 with a major in English and a minor in French. She worked on her Masters Degree at the University of Illinois then finished it at West Virginia University, and she was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Salem-Teikyo University. Teaching primarily at Salem High School, Mrs. Davis taught English in Harrison County Schools for 37 years. She coached more than 50 class plays during her teaching career and wrote pageants for the state FHA, one of which was presented at the National Convention of the FHA. She wrote "Out of the Whirlwind," the Harrison County West Virginia Centennial pageant which ran for a week in May 1963 at the Nathan Goff National Guard Armory. Mrs. Davis wrote "The History of Harrison County," published in 1970 and "John George Jackson," published in 1976. Between 1968 and 1997, Dorothy Belle Davis wrote more than 50 historical sketches for the newsletters of the Harrison County Historical Society, a compilation of which was published in 2011 with the title "Salem West Virginia 1776-1976," and which is available from Amazon.com via the Links page of the Doddridge County Roots website.