$7,000 in the bank… The remarkable story of Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine

The Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine is pleased to announce the first run, limited edition of $7,000 in the Bank: The Remarkable Story of Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, 1972-2005. Anyone who makes a gift of $150 or more to the School of Medicine's Annual Fund will receive a complimentary copy.  Single copies of the book are available through the Marshall University Bookstore for $29.50 plus tax for West Virginia residents plus shipping and handling ($6.95). To order your book, call the bookstore at
(304) 696-3622 or toll-free at (800) 547-1262.

Veteran newspaperman James E. Casto has been a Marshall University student, teacher and long-time supporter. Now, Marshall is the subject of his newest book, a photo history of the school.

Marshall University (Arcadia Publishing, $19.95) features more than 200 photographs that chronicle the school’s history, from its founding in 1837 to the present day. Most of the photographs included were drawn from the university’s official archives.

“I was privileged to have unprecedented access to the MU archives and was unstintingly aided in my research by the school’s dedicated library staff,” Casto said. “I owe a huge debt of thanks to Dean of Libraries Barbara Winters, Special Collections Curator Lisle Brown, archivist Cora Teel, and digital media technician Andrew Earles. I couldn’t have done this book without their assistance.”

Marshall University is on sale at many bookstores. Or you can order it from www.amazon.com, from the author at www.jimcasto.com or from the publisher at (888) 313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Casto was a reporter and editor at The Herald-Dispatch for more than 40 years until he retired from the newspaper in 2004. He is now senior public information specialist at the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing.

Educated in the Huntington schools, Casto attended Bethany College for two years, then Marshall, where he earned a bachelor’s in journalism and a master’s in English. He has taught both journalism and English as a part-time instructor at Marshall and is the author of five previous books of local history. A scholarship in his honor has been established at Marshall’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

On Casto’s retirement from The Herald-Dispatch, Marshall presented him with its John Marshall Medal of Civic Responsibility in recognition of his many services to the university and the community. In October 2005, he was inducted as a member of the Huntington Wall of Fame.