HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 55

(By Delegates Butler, Rohrbach, Queen, Martin, Higginbotham, Brewer, Howell, Arvon, Rowan, Romine, R. and Evans, A.)

[Introduced March 7, 2017]

Requesting the Division of Highways to name the North and South bound lanes of bridge number 10713 at the intersection of U. S. Route 35 and Grimm Road # 4714, near Point Pleasant, in Mason County, ending at latitude 38.8147072, longitude -81.1117675, the “Dr. John McClure Grubb” Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, John McClure Grubb was born on April 6, 1921, in Indianapolis, Indiana.  His family moved to Charleston, West Virginia, at age six.  He attended Charleston High School. He earned All-State honors in football.  He graduated in 1939, with a scholarship to Butler University in football, where he played football for three years.  In 1941 he enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Force. That same year, he married Shirley Simpson. They had four children. He served four years in the Air Force as a Flying Sergeant as a test pilot on B-17 and B-24 bombers. In January 1945, he enrolled in West Virginia Wesleyan College in pre-med and in 1946 he transferred to the Medical School of Virginia, graduating in 1951; and

Whereas, Dr. Grubb opened his medical practice in Kanawha City, practicing there for ten years.  He returned to school at Memorial Hospital and after four years as a resident in OB/Gyn he graduated and moved to Point Pleasant practicing in the Pleasant Valley Hospital OB/Gyn Department.  He served the Point Pleasant community in many capacities, including donating his time and profession to the Point Pleasant High School Athletic Department for physicals for the football team. He attended every football game for twenty-five years in case he was needed if a player was injured.  He was the Mason County Coroner for twenty-five years during the time of the Silver Bridge Collapse.  Dr. Grubb was active in the North American Cancer Society. He also served as the doctor for the Mason County Health Department and during his career delivered more than 10,000 babies. Dr. Grubb died on February 19, 1991; and

Whereas, Naming this bridge is an appropriate recognition of Dr. John McClure Grubb’s contributions to his country, state and community; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name the North and South bound lanes of bridge number 10713 at the intersection of U. S. Route 35 and Grimm Road # 4714, near Point Pleasant, in Mason County, ending at latitude 38.8147072, longitude -81.1117675, the “Dr. John McClure Grubb” Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the “Dr. John McClure Grubb” Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates, forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation.