Interview covering the period 1970's to the present with East Carolina University alumnus Donald King. Mr. King describes his childhood, which he spent in La Grange, N.C., after relocating several times with his military family. He describes his family's reluctance to support his decision to attend Wayne Community College, and later to transfer to East Carolina University, where he studied marketing. Mr. King emphasizes his experience as a working student. He is currently on the faculty at Pitt Community College. Interviewer: Martin Tschetter.
Interview with East Carolina Teacher's College alumna and retired teacher Mary Boyd Mann (formerly Mary Hoover Boyd). Mrs. Mann discusses her experiences growing up on a farm near Greenville in a family that valued education, attending Greenville High School, being a day student in the normal teacher curriculum program at East Carolina, and working during the summers to help pay tuition. She also discusses moving to Virginia for her husband's wartime work with the Navy, and working as a teacher in N.C. and Virginia. Interviewer: Martin Tschetter. Betsy Jones, daughte...
Interview with 2005 East Carolina University alumnus James Mauldin. Mr. Mauldin describes his early family life as the child of working-class parents in Jonesville, N.C., near Winston-Salem, and the disapproval voiced by some of his extended family regarding his decision to attend college. He describes his student career at ECU from 2002 to 2005, including dorm and social life, sports, and his work at the college radio station, which led him to classes in communications and broadcasting. He reflects on the size of the ECU student body and on the effect of a college ...
Interview with East Carolina University emeritus professor of psychology Dr. Dennis E. Chestnut. Dr. Chestnut describes his youth in Tabor City, Columbus County, N.C., and how he came to East Carolina College in 1965. He discusses the experience of being an African-American student on a predominantly white campus, various professors who influenced him, and his experiences with student organizations. He goes on to describe his time as a student at the University of Utah, and his subsequent hire by the Dept. of Psychology at East Carolina University. Interviewer: Don...
Interview with East Carolina Teachers College alumna Doris Maroney (formerly Doris Blalock). Ms. Maroney describes her early life in a farming family, with particular emphasis on her school in Lucama, Wilson County, N.C. She then describes her student experience at East Carolina Teachers College, including dorm life, classes, student organizations, and recreation. Interviewer: Joanne Phipps. Ms. Maroney's sister was also present.
Interview with East Carolina University alumna Carrie Rogers. Ms. Rogers briefly describes her childhood and schooling in Faith, N.C., near Salibury, and how her interest in occupational therapy led her to apply to ECU. She describes classes, dorm and social life, student organizations, particularly the sign language club, and her work with deaf students. She details her experience at ECU during Hurricane Floyd, in 1999. Interviewer: Martin Tschetter.
Oral history interview with East Carolina College alumnus Dr. James C. Pleasant and his wife of over 50 years, East Carolina College alumna Louise D. Pleasant (formerly Louise Ann Dickerson). Dr. Pleasant describes his early childhood in Greenville, N.C., and how his family was affected when his father, a drug store owner, was robbed and left blind. He discusses working at a grocery store to help support his family, getting a full scholarship to attend ECC in 1954, being inspired by professors to get a PhD, and working as a math and computer science teacher at East Ca...
Interview with East Carolina University alumnus and attorney Phillip R. Dixon of Greenville, N.C. Mr. Dixon discusses his early years in Wake Forest N.C. and family financial struggles after his parents' separation and a move to Raleigh. He discusses teachers and high school friends who influenced him to come to ECU, his mother’s misgivings about his going to college, using student loans and jobs to support himself, and the experience of having less money than other students on campus. He also discusses the supportive faculty and staff at ECU, his hard work to get go...
Interview covering the period 1950s to the present with East Carolina University alumna and Joyner Library employee Carol Wade. Ms. Wade discusses her early family life in Hookerton, Greene County, N.C., her experiences doing farm work, her parents' attitudes toward education, her completion of high school, work at Kinston Shirt Factory, and subsequent student careers at Lenoir Community College and East Carolina University. She highlights the challenges involved in being a distance education student, and the impact the library made upon her. Interviewer: Martin Tsc...
Interview with East Carolina College alumna and retired teacher Mary Rose Stocks. Dr. Stocks discusses early years on a large farm in Duplin County, where she attended B.F. Grady School, and was the first in her family and one of the few in her community to attend college. She discusses her college experiences, including classes and professors, dorm life, campus buildings, and having a car on campus. She also discusses neighbors she had while living with her husband and family near the ECU campus, teaching jobs in Chicod and in Greenville, and working with student teac...
Interview with East Carolina Teachers College alumna Myrtle H. Westmoreland (formerly Myrtle Hopkins). Mrs. Westmoreland discusses growing up during the depression in a farming family in Plymouth, N.C., being encouraged to attend college by her widowed father and a high school mentor, and paying for her college expenses with loans and self-help work. She discusses living in the dorm, playing basketball as a Lady Pirate, working in the dining hall, seeing male students leave campus because of the war, and after graduation, working as a home agent, home economics teacher...
Interview with East Carolina University alumna and teacher Mrs. Jeannie Noble. Mrs. Noble discusses her family in Williamson, W. Va. and in Clayton, N.C., her experiences attending elementary and high schools in Clayton, and the circumstances that led to her being the first in her family to attend college. She discusses her time at ECU, including classes, teachers, life in the dorm and off campus, finding money to stay at school, her decision to major in education, and doing student teaching. She also discusses her work as a teacher in various locations including time ...
Interview with East Carolina Teachers College class of 1932 alumna Juanita Worsley Williams. Mrs. Williams discusses growing up during the Depression in a large family in Rocky Mount, N.C., where her father was a teacher. She discusses staying with a brother in Greenville while she attended classes, meeting her husband on a blind date when she was a freshman, paying tuition with $400 she won in an essay contest, majoring in math and science, and being offered a scholarship to Peabody College in Nashville that she had to decline because she had gotten married. Interv...
Interview with East Carolina College alumnus and former Pirate Club President and board member Mark Meltzer. Mr. Meltzer, a New York native, discusses his decision to come to East Carolina, and his experiences in the History Department and counselor education program. He also discusses his student activities including student government and the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, his experience as a Jewish person on campus, his admiration for many professors and administrators, the growth he has seen at East Carolina and in the town of Greenville over the years, and his invo...
Interview with East Carolina University alumna and high school principal Patricia Burden of Goldsboro, N.C. Mrs. Burden discusses her decision to attend a predominately white college in 1965 and the concerns she and her family had about that decision, her feelings during her initial days at school and the reactions of white classmates, her experiences addressing prejudices and stereotypes in her interactions with fellow students, the support she received from her mother and father, her relationship with a professor she initially felt might be prejudiced toward her, an...
Interview with East Carolina College alumna and Craven Community College library employee Charlotte Whitford (formerly Charlotte Marie Purifoy). Ms. Whitford discusses her childhood in a tobacco farming family in Craven County, N.C., her parents' attitudes toward education, and her experience at New Bern High School. She discusses in depth her experience as a student at East Carolina College, including student registration, dorm life, studying, and finances. After graduating with a degree in Home Economics, Ms. Whitford later became a library employee at Craven Comm...
Interview covering the period 1940's to the present with Dr. Edward B. Bright, East Carolina College alumnus and educator. Dr. Bright is accompanied by his son, and describes his early family life in Chocowinity, N.C. and other places. After entering East Carolina Teachers College in the early 1940's, Dr. Bright was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942, stationed at Fort Bragg, and served in Europe during World War II. After leaving the military, Dr. Bright re-enrolled at ECTC, earning a bachelor's degree in Education in 1948 and master's degree in 1951. He...
Interview with East Carolina University alumna Sara D. Baumer. Mrs. Baumer discusses moving with her family from Massachusetts to North Carolina, her decision to attend college at East Carolina, being the Pee Dee the Pirate mascot for two years, working and getting loans to pay for college expenses, and a college volunteer trip to do conservation work in Australia. Interviewer: Joanne Phipps. Mrs. Baumer's husband Jack Baumer was also present for the interview.
Interview with David G. Fussell, Sr., East Carolina College graduate and owner of Duplin Winery. Mr. Fussell describes his childhood in the close-knit community of Rose Hill, Duplin County, N.C., where his family ran a general store, and his entry into East Carolina College in 1960. He gives details about college life, social events, and some classes and professors. After earning education degrees at ECC and at Duke University, Mr. Fussell worked as a teacher and school principal in Duplin County during the difficult first years of school integration. He goes on to...
Interview with East Carolina College alumni Jack L. Wallace and his wife June B. Wallace. Mr. Wallace describes his childhood in a farming family in Bath, N.C., and his entry to East Carolina Teachers College on a baseball scholarship in 1947. Mrs. Wallace also grew up in Bath, and both Wallaces earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Education from East Carolina College. They describe classes, professors, and sports and social life at ECC. Mr. Wallace also discusses his experiences as a mines expert in Korea during the Korean War. Both the Wallaces later had ca...