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The Bluefield State College Hymn was composed by Bluefield State Class of ‘ 38 alum , Eugene Wayman Jones .

Bluefield State Alma Mater

The Bluefield State College Hymn was composed by Bluefield State Class of ‘ 38 alum , Eugene Wayman Jones .

Current research revealed that the ‘ 38 hymn to his Alma Mater was first sung during the school year of 1935-1936 . The research has documented this with copies of programs from the 1935 , 1936 and the 1937 yearbooks . Some historians noted that Eugene composed the “ Bluefield State College Hymn ” when he was a freshman in 1938 .
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