Donald Teter

Donald L. Teter is a professional surveyor. He graduated with honors in 1973 from Davis and Elkins College with a B.A. degree in History and Political Science. He began surveying in 1974, working his way up to take the licensing exams in 1982. Mr. Teter has been a mostly self-employed West Virginia licensed surveyor since that time. He is past-president of the West Virginia Society of Professional Surveyors, was editor of The West Virginia Surveyor for ten years, served for ten years on the Board of Directors of the national Surveyors Historical Society, and is a member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors. For the past 34 years, he has been surveying mostly rural properties, with a scattering of urban and suburban work, and occasional topographic and minor construction surveying. For 15 years he has been presenting continuing education seminars for professional societies and educational institutions in West Virginia, and he has also presented in seven other states. Mr. Teter works part time as a member of the West Virginia surveyor licensing board’s Complaint Review Committee, is a part-time investigator for the board, and is an adjunct instructor of surveying and boundary law at Fairmont State University.