Source: University Archives, Call # ECU/03/J Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The image below is from pages eight and nine of the 1949 Techoan, which was dedicated to J.Y. Joyner. J.Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University and the J.Y. Joyner elementary school in Raleigh are his namesakes. Written on page eight is the following: [...]
Source: Oral History Interview #11 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Sally Smith was born in Hyde County on November 15, 1877 and died on May 1978. She taught for over 44 years in rural elementary black schools. She attended Bricks School in North Carolina, Hampton Institute in Virginia and the North Carolina College in Durham. [...]
Source: University Archives UW0000/2/4/7.1 Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: It is impossible to predict what may appear next in Special Collections. A phone call was made one afternoon to the Search Room desk. On the line was a woman who lives in Jackson, Mississippi. Her great-aunt was an alumna of East Carolina, and [...]
Source: University Archives, SL2650/2 Staff Person: Suellyn Lathrop Description: From 1914 to 1919 the students and teachers had published the Training School Quarterly a multi-purpose periodical containing lesson plans, articles, reports on student activities, photos of graduates and alumni news. In 1921 the Training School became East Carolina Teachers College with a four year program. [...]
Source: James Yadkin Joyner Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #345 Staff Person: Coleen Allen Description: The following biography is credited to the website it was taken from. There are also links to more information on Joyner listed, including a link to his papers held here in Special Collections. This photo of the “younger” Joyner came [...]
Source: University Archives, FA0000 Staff Person: Suellyn Lathrop Description: Long before there was any thought of a faculty senate, there were ten faculty members and a president starting a two-year school for a student body consisting of 104 women and 19 men. Students enrolled on October 5th, classes began and on October 19th the faculty [...]
Source: Fred & Susan Brock Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #869 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: The image below is a reproduction of Kinston High School’s Little Mothers League for Better Babies’ group portrait (ca. 1920). It was apparently made from Sadie Stadiem’s copy of the original photograph. The name of the photographer, E. D. [...]