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23373
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In 1880, Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and as a nineteen month old child, she contracted a disease that left her deaf and blind. Her parents hired Miss Anne Sullivan in 1887, and she taught Helen to finger spell. Helen graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904. Miss Keller and Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy spoke at East Carolina Teachers Training School on May 1, 1916. Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy began by telling about Helen’s life. Helen then spoke to the crowd, and at one point, catching the smell of a lily, had Mrs. Macy find it for her and caressed it. The audience asked Helen questions after her speech. She won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, and was elected to the Women’s Hall of Fame in 1965. She also raised money for the American Foundation for the Blind and campaigned to improve the living and working conditions for the blind. “The Unconquered,” a documentary film about Helen Keller’s life, was created in 1953. In 1957, a live drama television play about her life entitled “The Miracle Worker,” was first performed.
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25379
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Three former East Carolina Teachers College reflect on the excitement they felt when Amelia Earhart visited the campus and how the visit inspired them.
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31249
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In the number of teachers produced in 1961-1962, East Carolina College led all colleges in North Carolina, followed by Appalachian State. But Appalachian State ranked number one in the number of new teacher graduates who accepted jobs in North Carolina public schools.
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36031
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Buccaneer was the yearbook, back in print after a fifteen-year hiatus. Buccaneer was also the second incarnation of East Carolina University’s yearbook. The first version, published when ECU was East Carolina Teacher’s College, was the Tecoan, short for Teacher’s College Annual.
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36039
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Being planned was ECU’s Centennial celebration, which would take place between 2007-2009. Endeavors commemorating the event included Henry Ferrell’s Promises Kept. An example of a historical highlight for ECU’s century long development was a quote from the 1908 groundbreaking event speech made by the regarded father of ECU, Thomas Jordan Jarvis.
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36050
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The menagerie of movers and shakers in Greenville were profiled in this snapshot in words of how East Carolina University came to be. Accompanying the snapshot in words was a copy of the actual snapshot assembling those twenty-two individuals, taken on July 2, 1908.
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36052
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The title could also describe the era in which the profiled photos were taken. One featured six of the eighteen students with an instrument popular during the decade. The other showed students who could hold their own on either side of the steering wheel. The photos, just like the accompanied text, proved Wilson County club members aptly represented college students and young women the country over.