SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 22

(By Senators Stollings, Beach, and Plymale)

[Introduced February 14, 2018]

Requesting the Division of Highways name a portion of Old Route 10, known as Three-Mile Curve, from the bridge to the railroad tracks, in Logan, Logan County, the “U. S. Army Colonel Larkin Bilton Vance Memorial Highway”.

Whereas, Larkin Bilton Vance was born in 1928 and was educated in a one-room school in Logan County until the eighth grade. He attended Man High School until 1943 and enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of 15. He reported to the Great Lakes Training Center and, after his training, was assigned to a ship leaving for the Pacific. At the end of WWII, he held the position of head quartermaster on the ship stationed in Okinawa. He continued his military pursuits and served in the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Cuban and Belgian Congo crises. He graduated from Army Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1952 and retired after 30 years of service as a Colonel in the U. S. Army. He then served with NATO for an additional 10 years. During this time, he had the opportunity to meet with many distinguished world leaders. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Fort Benning and awarded the Civilian Award, a coveted national award for outstanding citizenship; and

Whereas, Naming this road is an appropriate recognition of Colonel Larkin Bilton Vance’s contributions to his country and to the state and community of his birth; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name a portion of Old Route 10, known as Three-Mile Curve, from the bridge to the railroad tracks, in Logan, Logan County, the “U. S. Army Colonel Larkin Bilton Vance Memorial Highway”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the road as the “U. S. Army Colonel Larkin Bilton Vance Memorial Highway”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.