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Jack Conrad

Hunter Jack Conrad

  • Class
    1951
  • Induction
    2010
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Basektball
Name: Hunter Jack Conrad, Athlete
Class of: 1951
Jack Conrad was a very powerful freshman basketball player at GSC, winning All Tournament honors on GSC's 1941-42 WVIAC Tournament Team. Jack also was known for his record setting 49 points in the 1941 Glenville High School Class B State Basketball Tournament Game. Jack married Mamie Jo Bush in September 1942 and worked in Charleston's war industries plant that fall prior to serving in the U.S. Army's 79th Division from 1943-1945he was wounded twice in France and medically discharged with the Purple Heart and Cluster. Upon returning to the states, Jack worked in the Conrad family restaurant and motel business from 1945-1948 and pursued his AB degree in Secondary Education from Glenville State. Jack also became enrolled at WVU and earned a MA in Educational Guidance in 1953. Then attending part time he earned a Secondary Principal's certificate and full Public Administration certification. He began teaching at Morgantown High School in 1951, while a student at WVU, and later became Assistant Principal at the school. Jack worked in Student Services as a Guidance Counselor at Fairmont State College form 1961-July 1973 when he took a leave of absence, at his parents' request, to return to the family business in Glenville. In 1977, he went back into college administration at Potomac State College of WVU first in Administrative Research and then as Registrar and Director of Admissions. Jack retired in 1985 and took over management of the Conrad Motel. The following year (1986), he became legally blind, due to Macular Degeneration. Jack received many awards, in 1995 GSC awarded him the GSC Alumni Association's Alumni Service Award, was also named Glenville High School's Alumnus of the Year in 2005, and was inducted into Fairmont State University's Student Services Hall of Fame in 2001. In July of 2008, Jack and his neice, Suzie Kidd Shipe, sold the Conrad Motel to Glenville State College with an agreement that he could retain his motel apartment. Jack passed away in the early morning hours of May 19, 2010, just three days before he would be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Jack and Jo (deceased) were parents of three children, Jack Jr. (deceased), Stephanie, and Charlie. They had four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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