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THE
TECOAN
1927
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A Song to Our College.
Words by Gladys Parsons, '27 Music by Laura Sloan. 27.
There's a col-lege that we love so well, We sing her praise to -day,
With-in her walls 'tis sweet to dewll And lin-ger while we may.
Look back where I - deals stil ex-cell, And ev - er rev'-rence her.
When from her we turn a-side, Our thoughts with her shall still a-bide,
"To serve" her mot-to, we'll re -tain, With us its challenge shall re-main;
To cling a-round fa-mil-iar scenes, And hal-low Al - ma Ma - ter.
Our deeds the praise al-ways shall tell, Of hal-lowed Al - ma Ma - ter.
Gov. Jarris Breaking ground for the E.C.T.T. School. July 2nd, 1908
The Tecoan 1927
EAST CAROLINA TEACHERS COLLEGE
FOREWORD
THE pause on a long journey and look backward at the stages of
progress, to reminisce as one grows old, and to recall with grati-
tude one's indebtedness to past ages, -such are the tendencies of
man that justify the publication of college annuals, which record the
contemporaneous and yet soon belong to the past.
The year 1927 being the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
North Carolina's first constitutional government and the twentieth
anniversary of the official history of East Carolina Teachers College,
The Tecoan has sought not only to picture the immediate present, but
also, by views from the five oldest towns in North Carolina, to call to
mind our Colonial history, that period of heroic struggle in which our
forefathers laid foundations on which we still build.
Naturally we dwell on recent events that brought our college into
being. We remember that in 1905 Superintendent W. H. Ragsdale saw
the need of trained teachers and that, two years later, the bill embody-
ing his vision, written by Governor T. J. Jarvis, and introduced by
Senator J. L. Fleming, all from Pitt County, was passed and ratified.
We like to recall that on the second day of July, 1908, Governor Jarvis,
in a simple cermony, broke the ground for the first building of East
Carolina Teachers Training School.
We go back to the opening of the first session, October 5, 1909,
when, with 172 students, our president, Mr. Robert H. Wright, began
the leadership of the Training School. Since that time the growth of
the institution is the story of a dream coming true-more buildings,
more students, more service, until in 1921 the name became East Caro-
lina Teachers College.
We would reflect for a moment on its founders, who, walking in
the ways of North Carolina's early history-makers, followed the motto,
"To Serve," and handed that motto to us of today and to the comers
of tomorrow. In our annual, the Past, the Present, and the Future are
as interlinked as in Life itself.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
COLLEGE
BOOK II
CLASSES
BOOK III
ACTIVITIES
BOOK IV
FEATURES
BOOK V
HUMOR
DEDICATION
In loving appreciation,
we dedicate
THE 1927 TECOAN
to
Miss Sallie Joyner Davis
who, by her example of unselfish de-
votion to our college and to our state's
history, has proven herself to be a true
teacher, a worthy daughter of our
state, and a valuable friend.
MISS SALLIE JOYNER DAVIS
Chairman of History Department and Teacher of North Carolina History
Mrs. W. L. Hinson
Kinston, N. C.
Mrs. Z. P. Van Dyke
Greenville, N. C.
Sponsors for 1927 Tecoan
Nancy Hinson
Editor in Chief
Inez Van Dyke
Business Manager
Rosina Pittman
Associate Editor
Alma Marks
Assistant Editor
Mary Hocutt
Associate Editor
Annie Laure Brinkley
Assistant Business Manager
Lucille Sermons
Assistant Business Manager
Irene Kahn
Club Editor
Mary Belle Lee
Snap Shot Editor
Johnnie Lee Stewart
Joke Editor
STAFF OFFICERS
Hortense Mozingo
Evelyn Hutchson
Martha Stewart
Christine McDaniel
Cynthis Daugherty
Mildred Sasser
Mabel McInnis
Meridith Swain
Hilda Sutton
Vallie Sumrell
Bronnie Cogdell
REPRESENTATIVES ON STAFF
GOVERNOR TRYON'S PALACE-1770
BUILT OF BRICK AND TRIMMED IN MARBLE, IT WAS THE HANDSOMEST
PUBLIC BUILDING IN AMERICA
Book One
The College
CAMPUS BUILDING
"Walls too young to grow much joy,
But containers of jubilant life."
FRONT CAMPUS
"A true is one of nature's words: to preach
tranquility to all our restless clan."
MODEL SCHOOL GROUNDS
"Snowflakes some in fleets
Like ships over the sea."
WILSON MEMORIAL
"He dreamed dreams that
were passing high."
ROCK SPRINGS
"Dignity and dreams go hand in hand
Near this small realm of Senior Land."
Power Plant
"The impulse of thy strength
makes us lead a nobler life."
WEST CAMPUS
"More than fairy echoes talk
along these walls."
OUR OWN COLLEGE RAILROAD
"It leads me with an idle ease,
A vagabond look and air."
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PRESIDENT ROBERT H. WRIGHT
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Miss Annie L. Morton
Lady Principal
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Officers of Administration
Mr. Robert H. Wright President
Mr. H. E. Austin Chairman of Appointment Committee
Mr. Leon R. Meadows Director of Summer School
Miss Annie L. Morton Lady Principal
Miss Ola S. Ross Custodian of Records
Dr. J. E. Nobles College Physician
Miss Annie Morris Supt. of Infirmary
Miss Imo Edwards Asst. Supt. Infirmary
Miss Rebecca Edmonds Secy. to President
Miss Mattie Scoville Secretary
Miss Beulah Westmoreland Secretary
Mr. J. B. Spilman Treasurer
Mrs. J. B. Spilman Asst. Treasurer
Mr. B. W. Gwyn Accountant
Mr. M. L. Wright Executive Secretary
Miss Helen G. Gray Librarian
Mrs. Nannie F. Jeter Dietitian
Miss Nell Keel Dietitian
Mr. J. B. Whitley Supt. of Laundry
Miss Arley V. Moore Dormitory Matron
Mr. O. C. Holmes Head Engineer
Mr. Wade Holmes Assistant Engineer
Mr. A. C. Fornes Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings
Mr. J. S. Williams Campus Policeman
Board of Trustees
Mr. A. T. Allen, Chairman Ex-Officio Raleigh, N. C.
Mrs. H. G. Connor, Jr Wilson, N. C.
Mr. F. C. Harding Greenville, N. C.
Mr. L. W. Tucker Greenville, N. C.
Mr. H. C. Bridgers Tarboro, N. C.
Mr. D. S. Boykin Wilson, N. C.
Mr. J. S. Hargett Trenton, N. C.
Mr. James L. Griffin Pittsboro, N. C.
Mr. Wayne A. Mitchell Kinston, N. C.
Mr. F. C. Kugler Washington, N. C.
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Faculty
Mr. L. R. Meadows
English
Miss Emma L. Hooper
English
Miss Mamie E. Jenkins
English
Miss Lucile Turner
English
Miss Sallie Joyner Davis
History
Mr. J. Beecher Flanagan
History
Miss Laura Rose
History
Mr. E. C. Hollar
History, Psychology, Sociology
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Faculty
Miss Dora E. Meade
Piano
Miss Mary G. Bertolet
Piano
Miss Lois V. Gorrell
Piano and Violin
Miss Gussie Kuykendall
Public School Music
Mr. H. E. Austin
Geography
Mr. P. W. Picklesimer
Geography
Mr. R. J. Slay
Science
Miss Alice V. Wilson
Biology
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Faculty
Miss Estelle Sorgenfrey
Biology
Miss Kate W. Lewis
Industrial Art
Miss Ruth Bonnerwitz
Industrial Art
Miss Willie Bomar
Foods
Miss Dorothy Dean
Clothing
Miss Mary Jane Alexander
Physical Education
Miss Ella Wilkes
Mathematics
Miss Maria D. Graham
Mathematics
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Faculty
Mr. R. C. Deal
French and Latin
Mr. Hubert C. Haynes
Education
Mr. R. G. Fitzgerald
School Management
Mr. E. L. Henderson
Supervisor of Practice Teaching
Mr. J. H. Rose
Supervisor of Practice Schools
Miss Agnes Whiteside
Primary Education
Mr. Carl L. Adams
Psychology
Miss Emily Goodlett
Primary Education
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Faculty
Miss Irene Hand
Critic Teacher, English
Miss Robbie Allison
Critic Teacher, French
Miss Rachael Scarborough
Critic Teacher, History
Miss Gladys Moore
Critic Teacher, Latin
Miss Mary Berry Clark
Critic Teacher, Domestic Science
Miss Dora Coates
Critic Teacher, First Grade
Miss Annie Redwine
Critic Teacher, First Grade
Miss Jennie Evans
Critic Feacher, First Grade
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Faculty
Miss Jamie Bryan
Critic Teacher, Second Grade
Miss Grace Hunter
Critic Teacher, Second Grade
Miss Bessie Worley
Critic Teacher, Third Grade
Miss Bonnie Howard
Critic Teacher, Fifth Grade
Miss Frances Wahl
Critic Teacher, Sixth Grade
Miss Louise Goggin
Critic Teacher, Seventh Grade
Miss Katherine Bradford
Critic Teacher, Sixth Grade
Miss Elizabeth Toland
Critic Teacher, Mathematics
Miss Lindsey Savage
Critic Teacher, Third Grade
Miss Christine Johnson
Critic Teacher, Second Grade
Miss Gertrude Woodfill
Critic Teacher, Fourth Grade
Miss Geneva Exum
Critic Teacher, Fifth Grade
Miss Janet Grier
Critic Tacher, Fourth Grade
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Officers of Administration
Mr. M. L. Wright
Executive Secretary
Miss Helen Gray
Librarian
Mrs. J. B. Spilman
Assistant Treasurer
Miss Ola S. Ross
Custodian of Records
Miss Beulah Westmoreland
Secretary
Miss Rebecca Edmonds
Secretary to President
Miss Hazel Willis
Secretary
Mr. B. W. Gwyn
Accountant
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Officers of Administration
Miss Nannie F. Jeter
Dietitian
Miss Nell Keel
Dietition
Miss Annie Morris
Superintendent of Infirmary
Miss Imo Edwards
Assistant Superintendent of Infirmary
Miss Arley V. Moore
Dormitory Matron
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IN MEMORIAM
MISS MITTIE R. BEAMAN
Died November 12, 1926
Miss Mittie Beaman for sixteen years, ever gentle and serene,
moved quietly among us, in the infirmary and dormitories, or out
working her flowers, busy with duties and pleasures at home. She
lived a rich, full life, outwardly calm, even-tempered, yet within glow-
ing with the spirit of adventure.
New ideas and things fascinated her. She was among the first to
buy a radio, and she was always learning some new handicraft.
Far places called to her; vacation meant going. While others
dreamed, she ventured. Souvenirs from Venice and Paris, cards from
the Canal Zone, iris roots from New Orleans, gave glimpses of the
travels that enriched her life. A trip ended, she slipped back into the
routine, refreshed in body and soul.
In love, her church perhaps came first. She went whenever
the door was opened and remained to close it.
She loved people, and ties of blood and friendship were strong.
She responded to the call of nieces and nephews, to the fourth gen-
eration, to share joys and sorrows. Work and wanderings over, she
rests in her home town among her own.
The memorials to her on the campus come and go with the sea-
sons-the flowers she planted: patches of cinnamon pinks, clumps of
purple irises, festoons of pink roses, and stalks of Ascension lilies.
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In Memoriam
MISS FANNIE McCLELLAND
Died January 10, 1927
Miss Fannie McClelland, Critic Teacher of the Fifth Grade and Principal of the
Model School, "went about doing good." Some evidence of her noble life and abid-
ing influence is shown by the following responses, made by the children of the Model
School, in chapel one morning after her death when Mr. Rose asked them to tell some
of the things that Miss McClelland believed in:
"Miss McClelland believed in children being happy."
"She believed in order."
"She believed in children telling the truth."
"She believed in keeping the Sabbath Day holy."
"She wanted us to do our work well."
"She believed in playing fair."
"She wanted us to be good citizens."
"She believed in respecting other people's rights."
"She wanted us to keep our school clean."
"She looked after us when we got hurt."
"She believed in going to church."
"She was never too busy to help us."
Miss McClelland truly lived a life of service-the kind of service taught by the
meek and lowly Nazarene when he said, "I came not into the world to be ministered
unto but to minister." Her greatest happiness was in working to make school a happy,
useful place, for, above all else, she loved children. She felt as the poet who said:
"Just this is all I ask, the day
I take the silent road and gray,
That on my simple stone they hew,
'Some little children loved her too.'
What else they write about me there,
I do not care."
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The Sheaves of Father Time
Old Father Time, how fast he mows
Lives and deeds as on he goes
Toward tomorrow.
He takes no retrospective glance
At those who sing, or play, or dance,
Or even sorrow.
But human are we who backward gaze,
And view the things of other days
In meditation.
When first was turned the virgin land,
Harvests of right and peace were planned
For veneration.
With firm imprint our fathers stamped
Our future in the furrows they tramped
And fields they plowed.
From Time's rough use they hardy grew
And passed truth on to me and you
In what they vowed.
We reverence those who gave their lives
To putting us in Fame's archives,
And Time defied.
They made us what we are today
By what they strove for yesterday;
And gladly died.
The mower moves at his steady pace;
He leaves us now and then a trace
Of what is past.
How deep and broad a swath he takes,
And thus for us a record makes
Always to last.
Ah, year by year he made his round,
And state by state in his sheaf he bound
As one great nation.
How slow, yet fast, this mystic Time,
A heaven-crowned Conqueror divine
In all creation.
ZILPAH FRISBIE, '27.
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ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT WILMINGTON
IN THE BURIAL GROUND AT THE REAR OF THIS
CHURCH IS THE GRAVE OF CORNELIUS HARNET,
A CAPE FEAR COLONIAL LEADER AND
REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT
Book Two
The Classes
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Kenneth Lane Henderson
MASCOT OF
SENIOR CLASS
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Senior Class Song
(Tune: "Arkansas")
We are thinking today of the future,
Of the days that are soon to come.
When the classmates we love shall be scattered
And afar from each other roam;
When we go from these walls to all corners of the state.
We will boost our Alma Mater and her standards true and great
We will cheer for our class, twenty-seven,
And our colors, the Blue and Gold.
In the years that are stretching before us
There are trials that we must meet
Where the mottos of class and of college
Will keep us from base defeat,
Whether we shall go to teach in the East or in the West
We will strive for aye "To Serve" in the way that we find best;
We will be what we are, not pretend it,
We'll be true to the Blue and Gold.
Chorus
Class of ours, class of ours, twenty-seven,
We will ever be true to you;
We will sing our praise forever
And remember the Gold and Blue.
Gladys Parsons, '27.
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Senior Class
Colors: Blue and Gold Flower: Pansy
Motto: "Esse Quam Videri."
OFFICERS
Gladys Kilpatrick President
Gladys Parsons Vice-President, Poet
Emma Jacobs Treasurer
Effie West Secretary
Mary Gray Moore Critic
Beulah Carr Historian
Mary Holt Testatrix
Gertrude Mercer Prophet
Hortense Mazingo Tecoan Representative
Nora Lee Gaddy S. G. A. Representative
Mamie Copeland Cheer Leader
Beulah Carr Teco Echo Reporter
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Gladys Kilpatrick, Senior Class President
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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS
Gladys Parson
Vice-President
Effie West
Secretary
Emma Jacobs
Treasurer
Mary G. Moore
Critic
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Gladys Lavada Kilpatrick
Brevard, N. C.
Home Economics
Poe Society; Vice-President of Class, '24;
Representative on Annual Staff, '25; President
of Class, '26, '27; Home Economics Club,
President, '26; Statistics, '27; Chief Marshal,
'27; News Bureau, '27; Basketball Team, '23,
23; Science Club, '24; Senior Play.
"She'll always be ours, now and hereafter."
Virginia Highsmith Blount
Faison N. C.
Home Economics
Lanier Society; Flora McDonald College, '24;
Y. W. C. A.; Choir, '25, '26, '27; Cabinet,
'26, '27; Phi Epsilon, Vice-President, '26;
Home Economics Club, '25, '26, '27; Member
of Budget Committee of S. G .A., '26
Council, '26; Delegate to Baptist Student
Conference Chapel Hill, '26; Delegate to Blue
Ridge, '26; Glee Club, '25, '26, '27; Business
Manager, '27; Statistics, '26, '27; President
of Lanier Society, '27.
"Although tiny in stature, she is SO BIG with us."
Mary Maxwell Holt
Pine Hill, N. C.
Latin
Lanier Society; Marshal, '25; Vice-President
of Class, '25; Council, '26; Teco Echo Staff,
'26, '27; News Bureau, '27; Inter-Society
Committee, '27; Statistics, '27; College Ad-
vertising Committee, '27; Basketball, '26, '27;
Tecoan Staff, '26; Wearer of Letters, '27;
Senior Play.
"She explains our assignments clearly, she
teaches well, and she keeps an orderly room;
yet she is full of fun that we like"
Laura Alderman Sloan
Wallace, N. C.
French
Lanier Society; Secretary of Class '26;
Treasurer Phi Sigma, '26, President, '27;
Y. W. C. A.; Pianist, '26; Cabinet, '27; Rep-
resentative to Camp Hollow Rock, '26; Music
Scholarship, '27; Senior Play.
"Although she is a good teacher, she will
never marry a preacher."
Emma Jacobs
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Primary Education
Lanier Society; Treasurer of Class, '26, '27.
"We like Miss Jacobs; she threads needles
for us and helps us make pretty things."
Eliza Eloise Riggs
South Mills, N. C.
Home Economics
Emerson Society, '27; Chowan College, '24;
Home Economics Club, '25, '26, '27; Vice-
President, '26.
"Miss Riggs, we love you so much, and hope
that some one will love you much better than
we have."
Pauline Elizabeth Martin
East Bend, N. C.
Mathematics
Emerson Society; Basketball Squad, '25, '26;
Mathematics Club; Vice-President, '27; Senior Play.
"This is her first attempt at teaching, but
she didn't act like it; she knew how."
Alverta Brendle
Booneville, N. C.
Latin
Poe Society; Scholarship, '27; Basketball, '25,
'26; Baseball, '25, '26, '27; Senior Play.
"Not yet a teacher, but she delights in
the language, the customs and the philosophy of
the Romans."
Louise Grissom
Henderson, N. C.
Mathematics
Poe Society; Basketball Team, '24, '25, '26,
'27; Wearer of Letters; Lieutenant of Athletic
Association, '26; Mathematics Club, '26, '27;
Senior Play.
"A corking good teacher, pleasant and
good-natured."
Gladys Ethel Tingle
Meritt, N. C.
History
Poe Society; Basketball Team, '25, '26; Vice-
President Phi Sigma, '27; Council, '27; Sen-
ior Play.
"If you want some one good in history, just
call on Miss Tingle and hear her jingle."
Thelma Hortense Mozingo
Wilson, N. C.
Latin
Poe Society; Secretary of Class, '25;
Critic, '26; Secretary, '27; Chairman of
Dramatic Club, '27; Y. W. C. A.; Cabinet,
'26; English Club, '27; Tecoan Staff, '26, '27;
Teco Echo Staff, '27; News Bureau, '27; College
Advertising Committee, '27; Basketball
Team, '24, '25, '26, '27; Scholarships, '24,
'25, '26, '27; Senior Play.
"We like her because she explained the
lessons so well, and she made her classes
interesting; but we still wonder if Mazingoes
come from Brazil."
Gladys Isabella Parson
New Bern, N. C.
Mathematics
Poe Society; Council, '25; "Tecoan" Staff, '25,
'26; Vice-President House, '26; Math Club,
'26, '27; Vice-President of Class, '27; College
News Bureau, '27; College Advertising Com-
mittee, '27; President, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A.;
Choir, '25, '26, '27; Glee Club, '25, '26, '27;
Vice-President, '27; Senior Play.
"She teaches as if she is very interested in
her work; she explains difficult things, and
she is as pleasant as a 'parson' about it."
Margaret Cameron Williams
South Mills, N. C.
Home Economics
Emerson Society; Science Club, '24; Home
Economics Club, '24, '25, '26, '27; Secretary
Phi Epsilon, '26; President, '27; Treasurer
Home Economics Club, '26; Teco Echo Staff. '26.
"She is a very good sport and has a happy disposition."
Treasurer Echo Staff,
Ella Wheeler Tucker
Grifton, N. C.
Home Economics
Emerson Society, '27; Lanier; Science Club,
'24; Home Economics Club, '24, '25, '26, '27;
Senior Play.
"She's fat but snappy."
Mary Gray Moore
New Bern, N. C.
Latin
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet
'25, '26, '27; President of Y. W. C. A.; Choir,
'24, '25, '26, '27; Glee Club, '25, '26, '27; Pres-
ident, '26, '27; Glee Club; College Quartet,
'25, '26, '27; Tennis Club, '24; College En-
tertainment Committee, '26, '27; Inter-Society
ommittee, '27; Secretary, '26; Chairman
Music Department, '27; Critic of Class, '27;
Delegate to Milwaukee Conference, '27;
Council, '24, '27; Phi Sigma, President, '26;
Statistics, '27.
"Gee, but we don't mind 'more' declensions
when we have Miss Moore."
Viola Wade Jones
Stem, N. c.
English
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A.; Choir, '26,
'27; Delegate to Blue Ridge, '26; Dele-
gate to Southern Baptist Student Conference,
'26; Basketball Team, '24, '25, '26, '27;
Budget Committee, '27; Inter-Society Com-
mittee, '27; Council, '25, '26, '27; Statistics,
'27; President of Student Government Association, '27.
"She is a splendid teacher, both inside
school and out; we hope she can teach us again."
Zilpah Rebecca Frisbie
Marion, N. C.
English
Emerson Society, '27; Poe Society, Treasurer,
'25; Debater, '26; English Club, '26, '27;
Council, '26; Editor of Teco Echo, '27; Dele-
gate to N. C. C. P. A., '27.
"Speaking of English, she's a shark on the subject."
Mamie Copeland
Woodland, N. C.
Primary Education
Emerson Society, '27; House President, '25;
Representatiye Junior Class, '26; President
Emerson Society, '27.
"Miss Copeland, we like for you to teach us number work."
Ruby Jordan Knowles
Woodard, N. C.
French
Lanier Society; Blackstone College, '24;
Senior Play.
"As wise as she is solemn, she knows history."
Nora Lee Gaddy
Wingate, N. C.
Intermediate Education
Poe Society; Wingate Junior College, '24, '25;
Council, '27; Senior Play.
"Miss Gaddy isn't very strict, but she makes
us learn math."
Gertrude Mercer
Fountain, N. C.
English
Poe Society; Basketball, '24, '25, '26; Mar-
shal, '25; Teco Echo Reporter from Poe So-
ciety, '27; Senior Play.
"We think she is an excellent teacher, and
it would be an honor for any class in the
future to be able to profit by her teachings."
Effie West
Statesville, N. C.
French
Poe Society; Mitchell College, '24, '25;
Secretary Class, '24; Senior Play.
"You have made a good French teacher,
for you knew your subject well."
Beulah Carr
Rose Hill, N. C.
English
Poe Society; Associate Editor of Teco Echo,
'26; Senior Class Reporter, '27; News Bu-
reau, '27; English Club.
"Cars usually teach you bad English, but
this Carr teaches good English"
Ella Isabelle Fleming
Greenville, N. C.
English
Poe Society; Secretary of Class, '24; Pre-
sident, '25; Vice-President, '26; Phi Epsilon
Vice-President, '25; English Club, '26, '27.
"She acts as though she has had former ex-
perience; she will be a successful teacher-
if she teaches."
Ruth McGowan
Greenville, N. C.
English
Poe Society; English Club, '26, '27.
"She is a good teacher, and has patience and sympathy."
Mattie Mae Evans
Greenville, N. C.
History
Poe Society; Basketball Squad, '24;
Senior Play.
"When it comes to history, she knows more
than her dates."
Bessie Harriett Sumerell
Grifton, N. C.
Primary Education
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A.; Choir, '24, '25,
'26, '27; English Club, '26; House Vice-
President, '26.
"Miss Sumerell is so kind to us, and she tells
us lots of pretty stories."
Lucy Caroline Wells.
Kenansville, N. C.
Home Economics
Lanier Society; Home Economics Club, '24,
'25, '26, '27; Secretary, '25; House Vice-
President '27; Flora MacDonald College,
'22 : Senior Play.
"She still has her crowning glory and is
worthy of a glorious crown."
Ruth McKellar
Maxton, N. C.
English
Lanier Society; Graduate of Carolina Col-
lege, Maxton, N. C.
"She surely knows a library full of English."
Louise Robinson
Goldsboro, N. C.
Primary Education.
"Miss Robinson is a sweet teacher."
Blanche Wilkins
Greensboro, N. C.
Primary Education
Emerson Society; President of Class, '24;
Statistics, '24.
"We like her; she's pretty."
Lena Redfern
Primary Education
N. C. C. W.; Coker College, South Carolina,
and A. S. N. S.
"We like to hear Miss Redfern tell stories,
and we like to hear her laugh."
Rosalind Robinson
Morven, N. C.
Poe Society; Intermediate Education.
"Miss Robinson has been so nice and sweet
to us. We hate to see her leave."
Miriam Revelise
Greenville, N. C.
French
Poe Society; English Club, '27.
"She talks so much that she makes us think
she kows more than she does, but my! doesn't
she know a lot!"
Gladys Mae Arnold
New Bern, N. C.
Primary Education
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A.; Cabinet, '21.
"We have lots of fun together."
Lucy Gray King
New Bern, N. C.
Primary Education
Lanier Society; Basketball, '24.
"Miss King ought to be king-'cause she's
named King,"
Mildred Teal
McFarland, N. C.
Intermediate Education
Emerson Society; Lanier Society; Member of
Emerson Society, '27.
"We like Miss Teal because she is so nice and quiet."
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Senior Directory
Comments by pupils of Practice Schools.
Arnold, Gladys 59
Blount, Virginia 42
Brendle, Alverta 45
Carr, Beulah 53
Copeland, Mamie 50
Evans, Mattie 54
Fleming, Ella 53
Frisbie, Zilpah 50
Gaddy, Nora Lee 51
Grissom, Louise 46
Holt, Mary 43
Jacobs, Emma 44
Jones, Viola 49
Kilpatrick, Gladys 42
King, Lucy 59
Knowles, Ruby 51
McGowan, Ruth 54
McKellar, Ruth 56
Martin, Pauline 45
Mercer, Gertrude 52
Moore, Mary Gray 49
Mozingo, Hortense 47
Parsons, Gladys 47
Redfern, Lena 57
Revelise, Miriam 58
Riggs, Eloise 44
Robinson, Louise 56
Robinson, Rosalind 58
Sloan, Laura 43
Sumerell, Bessie 55
Teal, Mildred 60
Tingle, Gladys 46
Tucker, Ella Wheeler 48
Wells, Lucy 55
West, Effie 52
Wilkins, Blanche 57
Williams, Margaret 48
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The Declaration of Graduation
In Class, June 6, 1927
The Unanimous Declaration of the Class of 1927 of East Carolina
Teachers' College
WHEN, IN THE COURSE of college events, it becomes necessary for one
class to dissolve the college bands which have connected its members with one
another, and to assume among the trials of North Carolina, the separate and
equal stations to which the laws of said state and East Carolina Teachers College
entitle them, a due regard for the opinions of instructors entitle that they should
declare the causes which impel to the graduation.
We hold these facts to be self-evident; that all classes are given ambitions; that
they are endowed by their college with certain inalienable rights; that among these are
work, play, and graduation; that to secure these, instructors are placed over them, de-
riving their just powers from the consent of the administration; that whenever these
students have completed the necessary requirements, it is the duty of the college to
graduate them.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that classes, long careless and unconcerned, should
not be graduated; and accordingly all experience hath shown that most students are
more disposed to rest while rest is possible than to find work and to dismiss the ease
for which they seem to live. But when a long train of students, pursuing faithfully
the same object, convinces the college authorities that official requirements have been
met, it is their right to be graduated, and to be provided with new work for their future
security. The history of the Class of 1927 of East Carolina Teachers College is a his-
tory of faithful work and untold sacrifices, all having in direct object service to the
children of our state. To prove this let facts of our history be submitted to an ap-
preciative world.
We have humbled ourselves when freshmen, to conditions the most trying and
difficult, for the pleasure of the sophomores.
We have co-operated with the Student Government, both obeying regulations and
causing new ones to be made.
We have, while sophomores, called together the freshmen at places unusual, un-
comfortable, and distant from the depository of their public record, for the sole pur-
pose of fatiguing them into compliance with our measures.
We have warned young students repeatedly for opposing with their folly the orders of the Student Council.
We have assisted for a long time after such disturbances, to bring order out of
chaos; whereby the students, seeing our viewpoint, have returned to their government
for protection, the individuals obeying orders and requesting the same of others.
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We have endeavored to increase the capacity of this college; for that purpose rais-
ing funds for this institution; refusing to discourage students migrating hither, and
welcoming them upon their arrival.
We have assisted the administration of justice by giving our assent to laws to
establish judiciary powers.
We have supported instructors, contrary to our will, in the assingments of our
work, smiling when term papers were mentioned, and entering into sprit of oral reports.
We have served in a multitude of offices, and are sending out a swarm of teachers
to help the people and eat at their tables.
We have kept among the students, in times of quiet, council representatives to
see that said quiet continued.
We have combined with each other to agree that the college should be very
grateful to us:
For manifesting a great degree of dignity throughout our career.
For presenting the college, through our talents, the type of dramatics of which
the college should boast till the last days of its history; including among these in our
junior year Alfred Noyes' famous poetic drama "Sherwood," and presenting, with
no less success, in our senior year Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer."
For respecting the high standard of the college in the selection of our class officers,
choosing, therefore, in our Freshman year Priscilla Austin; in our Sophomore year
deciding on the merits of Ella Fleming; and in our Junior and Senior years uniting
under the great leadership of Gladys Kilpatrick.
For taking an active part in athletics, accepting defeat when necessary, yet striv-
ing to grow stronger.
For showing an interest in picnics, attending as guests when invited, and provid-
ing the edibles when others would not.
For establishing during our stay here the precedent looked forward to by future
classes-a Junior-Senior banquet.
For passing with high honors our practice teaching, abolishing thereby much worry
over poor teachers.
We have released ourselves from all failures and conditions by devoting our-
selves to our studies and waging war against idleness and stupidity.
We have plundered the college, outdoors and in, to find its noblest resources.
We are at this time sending Senior class representatives both to the Four-Year
College and to the Two-Year Normal class meetings to give instructions, whereby the
work we have planned may be carried on.
We have constrained our college mates, reproved by the instructors, to do what
was right independent of their wishes.
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We have incited domestic improvements among us and have endeavored to lend
assistance to our college servants whose known vocation is to bring destruction to all
disorder and unsightliness in our rooms each morning.
In every stage of these movements we have petitioned for the instruction of our
superiors; our repeated desires have been answered only by the greatest of consideration.
Each member of a class whose characters are thus marked by every quality which
may define a Bachelor of Arts candidate is fit to be an alumna of this college.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our inferior classes. We have warned
them from time to time of attempts by their radicals to extend unwarranted privileges
not granted to them. We have reminded them of the difficulties encountered by our
class. We have appealed to their native ability and greatness, and we have conjured
them by the ties of our common interests to disavow these usurpations which would
inevitably interrupt our connections and associations. They, too, have not been deaf
to the evidence of our wisdom and good intentions. We must, therefore, rejoice in
the spirit of their co-operation, and hold them as we hold all true students of our col-
lege, believers in its standards and disciples of its cause.
We, therefore, the Class of 1927 of East Carolina Teachers College, in class
assembled, appealing to the supreme authority of the college for the rectitude of our
intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good Class of 1927, solemnly
entreat and request that our class be, and of right should be, free and independent
teachers; that we be absolved from all official obligations to the college; and that, as
free and independent teachers, we have full power to instruct, give grades, sign con-
tracts, establish schools, draw salaries, and to do all other acts and things which inde-
pendent teachers may do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance
on the protection of the supreme authority of our Alma Mater, we mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Signed by order and in behalf of the Class.
Beulah Carr, Historian.
Gladys Kilpatrick, President.
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Last Will and Testament
THE TIME has come when we must leave our Alma Mater, and we grow
serious over what our lives have been here. We hope that we have followed
such ideals and standards of conduct as would be worthy of bequeathing to
our successors. We wish that we could transmit these ideals and standards to you, our
fellow students, that they might be of daily helpfulness in your also following ideals
and upholding standards.
Since we realize, however, that our intangible ideals may prove inadequate when
measured in the light of the materialism which many hold is upon our age, it is our
desire to leave some permanent symbol of our devotion and interest. Consequently we,
the Senior Class of 1927, acting as a loyal body of alumna; and as grateful friends of
one whom we loved, do present as our last formal gift to East Carolina Teachers College,
a memorial to Miss Mittie R. Beaman. May those who, coming after us,
look upon its beautiful and enduring nature, to be inspired by the sweetness and
goodness of the life of her to whom we lovingly dedicate this gift.
Signed and sealed on this the sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-seven, A. D., at East Carolina Teachers College, Greenville, North Carolina.
(Seal) Mary Holt, Testatrix.
Witnesses:
Gladys Kilpatrick, President.
Gladys Parsons, Vice-President.
Effie West, Secretary.
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Prophecy
SALUTATIONS and greetings," spake the fool in the olden days, as gaily
donning his cap and bells, he mounted his stool and waited his lord's com-
mand to make merriment for the court. But it chanced that sad his face
became when he was bidden in a spirit of mock seriousness to utter a prayer; for
though he knew that he would be lashed and scourged, the cunning fool could speak
only from his heart, and in a reverent spirit he obeyed his lord's command.
So have my classmates said to me, "Ay, fool prithee, unmuzzle your wisdom and
tell us where life shall have cast our lot ten years from now." And like the fool my
spirit will not suffer me to jest over a matter of so grave import, and if merriment and
fun be what they have asked for, then like the fool I have failed and deserve to be
lashed and scourged.
Silent and awed, I gaze into the deep and mysterious realms of the future-the
unknown-and I see visions and strange sights. Yet, by my troth, not so strange, for
as I look again, the future doth spread itself before me like a panorama and the faces
which I behold do show the crowns of success that proclaim the fulfilled promise of our
college life. The youthful faces that once I hoped to know are not quite the same as
then. Upon the gentle brows of some are graven the marks of time, the old revered
lines that have characterized the sacrificial state of motherhood through the centuries.
Others wear the patient smile in which years of toil, disappointments, and regrets have
taught them to mask their sorrows while they meet the world bravely. Upon others,
life has wrought but little change, for they still pursue their triumphant, though
difficult way, and receive the plaudits of an admiring world. There are some whose
faces I can not find, though I peer long into the distance. Why has the veil been
drawn, closing some into that realm of darkness where, I trow, the wit of a fool is vain?
While the old familiar faces drift along, I hear the faint vibration of music that
swells upon the air-such music as is poured forth from the depth of human souls
whose lives are happy, and as I strain my ear once more to catch the echo of the
chanted words, I hear, "Praise ye the Lord, and forget not all His benefits."
Gertrude Mercer
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JEAN HARRINGTON
MASCOT OF
JUNIOR CLASS
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Junior Class Song
Tune: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
O, let us rally to our class,
The Junior call.
Let's sing a song and answer fast
The Junior call.
We've got to strive and lead the rare.
It's up to us to set our pace.
So let us all be up and doing
When Juniors sound the call.
Let "Junior" be a challenge clear
For right, for might;
By strength of purpose, while we're here,
We'll climb the height.
Let us to Teachers College give
The best we have, and while we live
We'll ever sing her a song of praise,
Fulfilling the Junior call.
-Bessie Willis, '28.
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Ethel Spratt
President
Junior Class
Officers
Vera Wester Vice-President
Mary Campbell Secretary
Ann Kanoy Treasurer
Rosina Pittman Teco-Echo Reporter
Bessie Willis Poet
Delma Smith Student Government Representative
Mary Cummings Cheer Leader
Jeanette Duncan Critic
Evelyn Hutcheson Tecoan Representative
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Junior Class
Lelia Askew
Woodland, N. C.
Annie Batts
Enfield, N. C.
Lucile Britt
Clinton, N. C.
Mary Banks
Grantsboro, N. C.
Ina Bishop
Jacksonville, N. C.
Catharine Clark
Elizabethtown, N. C.
Margie Caldwell
Dillon, S. C.
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Junior Class
Lucile Tomlinson
Wilson, N. C.
Bronnie Cogdell
Goldsboro, N. C.
Mary Cummings
Kinston, N. C.
Dorothy Currin Ellis
Greenville, N. C.
Jeanette Duncan
Dunn, N. C.
Louise Evans
Greenville, N. C.
Kathleen Faison
Faison, N. C.
Irene Fleming
Greenville, N. C.
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Junior Class
Mary Forbes
Greenville, N. C.
Sabra Garriss
Wilson, N. C.
Sarah Gurley
Goldsboro, N. C.
Goldie Harrell
Moyock, N. C.
Mildred Herring
Clinton, N. C.
Nancy Hinson
Kinston, N. C.
Mary Hocutt
Clayton, N. C.
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Junior Class
Evelyn Hutcheson
Raleigh, N. C.
Janie Belle Johnson
Rose Hill, N. C.
Ruth Jones
Stem, N. C.
Sarah Burton Jenkins
Shelby, N. C.
Doralita Larkins
Clinton, N. C.
Caroline Macon
Henderson. N. C.
Ruth Mewborn
Grifton, N. C.
Ruby Midgette
Greenville, N. C.
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Junior Class
Roma Morris
Atlantic, N. C.
Elizabeth Newsome
Goldsboro, N. C.
Anna Outland
Woodland, N. C.
Carrie Lee Peele
Williamston, N. C.
Ruth Rhyne
Bessemer city, N. C.
Margaret Robinson
Goldsboro, N. C.
Nina Ruth Rouse
Kinston, N. C.
Elsie Seago
Greenville, N. C.
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Junior Class
Margaret Shaw
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Delma Smith
Farmville, N. C.
Elizabeth Smith
Hendersonville, N. C.
Julia Satterthwaite
Pactolus, N. C.
Inez Van Dyke
Greenville, N. C.
Ruth Wetmur
Hendersonville, N. C.
Ruby Yelverton
Black Creek, N. C.
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Mary Elizabeth Austin
MASCOT OF
Sophomore Class
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Sophomore Class
Poem
Colors: Green and White Flower: Lily-of-the-Valley
Motto: "Not less than best."
'Tis not the biggest things that count
The most in school or life;
But faithfulness to the little things
That help us Sophs in the strife.
If Sophs will do the little things,
Each day do something kind,
Our class will rise to lofty heights,
And a lasting joy will find.
Emily Smithwick, '29.
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Annie Shields VanDyke
President
Sophomore Class
Officers
Mary Frances Jenkins Vice-President
Rebecca Alexander Secretary
Catherine Hill Treasurer
Emily Smithwick Poet
Virginia Perkins Teco-Echo Reporter
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Sophomore Class
Rebecca Alexander
Southport, N. C.
"Becky"
Ada Allen
Newport, N. C.
"Tatar"
Elizabeth Austin
Greenville, N. C.
"Kinky"
Anna Badham
Greenville, N. C.
"Anna"
Bess Bernhardt
Acme, N. C.
"Bess"
Oma Fae Barnhill
Robersonville, N. C.
"Baby Face"
Julia Dixon Blount
Faison, N. C.
"Baby"
Lillian Colson
Mooresville, N. C.
"Major Lollipop"
Wilma Cox
Greenville, N. C.
"Wil"
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Sophomore Class
Frances Dixon
Roper, N. C.
"Dick"
Althea Dudley
Ayden, N. C.
"Dudley"
Evelyn Ewell
Elizabethtown, N. C.
Margaret Faison
"Lyn"
Faison, N. C.
"Red"
Nell Floyd
Fairmont, N. C.
"Nell"
Alice Foley
Greenville, N. C.
"Smiley"
Olivia Forbes
Greenville, N. C.
"Lib"
Sara Fussell
Bowden, N. C.
"Fuzzy"
Sudie Harriett
Pollocksville, N. C.
"Babe"
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Sophomore Class
May Henderson
High Point, N. C.
"Hin"
Catherine Hill
Kinston, N. C.
"Cat"
Odessa Hilliard
Carthage, N. C.
"Dessa"
Persis Hodges
Kinston, N. C.
"Precious"
Mary Frances Jenkins
Aulander, N. C.
"Jinx"
Claire Jones
Stem, N. C.
"Snookes"
Irene Kahn
Hamlet, N. C.
"Dieny"
Julia Lancaster
Vanceboro, N. C.
"July"
Mildred Mangum
Greenville, N. C.
"Milly"
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Sophomore Class
Elizabeth Murphy
Farmville, N. C.
"Lib"
Virginia Perkins
Greenville, N. C.
"Ginger"
Sadie Perry
Williamston, N. C.
"Sadie"
Margaret Pickett
Liberty, N. C.
"Pick"
Viola Scott
Rocky Point, N. C.
"Little Girl"
Lucille Sermons
Greenville, N. C.
"Cille"
Carrie Smith
Fountain, N. C.
"Pretty Girls"
Emily Smithwick
Merry Hill, N. C.
"Emilee"
Clara Lee Spruill
Columbia, N. C.
"Red"
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Sophomore Class
Martha Stewart
Derita, N. C.
"Spud"
Clyde Stokes
Ayden, N. C.
"Clyde"
Vallie Sumrell
Ayden, N. C.
"Valley Blue"
Hilda Sutton
Kinston, N. C.
"Teeny Tiny"
Gladys Taylor
Louisburg, N. C.
"Aunt Emma"
Evelyn Tillman
Cary, N. C.
"Monkey"
Effie Tripp
Winterville, N. C.
"Tripp"
Annie Shields VanDyke
Greenville, N. C.
"Sis"
Mary White
Middletown, N. C.
"May L."
Nina Lewis
Rocky Point, N. C.
"Sophy"
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Mildred Barden Taylor
Mascot Of
FRESHMAN CLASS
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Freshman Class
Colors: Scarlet and Gold Flower: Rose.
Motto: "Rowing, not drifting"
Poem
We are the faithful Freshmen,
An excellent bunch, we think;
We are here to do our duty-
Of knowledge deep to drink.
We've chosen thee, dear college,
Because we've heard thy fame;
Our class will strive forever,
Exalting high thy name.
To serve thee is our watchword,
With word, and deed, and song;
To do as thou would have us,
To conquer all that's wrong.
Our hearts and hands are thine now;
We give our selves to thee
To mold and shape for service,
Teachers of our state to be.
Ruth Lemmond, '30.
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Julia Cogdell
President
Freshman Class
Officers
Sara Ogletree Vice-President
Elba McGowan Secretary
Agatha Loeuwenburg Treasurer
Mildred Sasser Tecoan Representative
Catherine Whitehurst Teco-Echo Representative
Elizabeth Deal Critic
Ruth Lemmond Poet
Eliza Walters Student Government
FRESHMAN CLASS ROLL
Christine Bell
K. Lee Cloaninger
Bessie Ferguson
Helen Butler
Julia Cogdell
Sibyl Forehand
Mamie Barthalemew
Myrtle Stancil Cooper
Marjorie Floyd
Ruby Brite
Evelyn Cladwell
Elva Frisbie
Annie Laurie Herring
Ella Lee Boomer
Hester Davenport
Helen Guthrie
Evelyn Jennings
Louise Carr
Elizabeth Deal
Janie Gold Hardy
Sara Long Johnson
Margaret Carter
Naomi Dameron
Velma Hardy
Sonia Belle Lamm
Blanche Clark
Marcella Deal
Sarah Hinson
Rosebud Lawrence
Verna Dare Corey
Lucille Dixon
Lucille Hearne
Agatha Loeuwenburg
FRESHMAN CLASS ROLL
Lucy Lane
Eliza Laughinhouse
May Belle Lee
Ruth Lemmond
Mildred Mallard
Elizabeth Mayo
Mattie Vines Mayo
Eloise McArthur
Madelaine McCain
Elba McGowan
Sara Ogletree
Louise Oakes
Edith Quinnerly
Mildred Sasser
Irene Scott
Eloise Scott
Eva Scott
Elida Swindell
Annie May Sellars
Elizabeth Spears
Rubenia Sutton
Lillian Summerlin
Elaine Tunnell
Anna Bell Tyson
Martha Traynham
Eliza Walters
Mary Ward
Annie May Ward
Dorothy Ward
Katherine Whitehurst
Dorothy Williams
Grace Whitley
Margaret Womack
NORMAL CLASSES
I. Senior Normal
II. Junior Normal
Tecoan 1927
Mae Meadows
MASCOT OF
SENIOR NORMAL CLASS
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Dixie Taylor, Senior Normal Class President
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SENIOR NORMAL CLASS OFFICERS
Asenath Wellons Vice-President
Virginia Ratcliffe Secretary
Mabel Melnnis Treasurer
Jean Morton Reporter
Mary Elliot Critic
Senior Normal Class
OFFICERS
Dixie Taylor President
Asenath Wellons Vice-President
Virginia Ratcliffe Secretary
Mabel McInnis Treasurer
Annie Spivey S. G. A. Representative
Christine McDaniel Tecoan Representative
Jean Morton Teco-Echo Representative
Mary Elliott Critic
Carrie F. Herring Cheer Leader
Velma Talton Assistant Leader
Johnnie Lee Stewart Doorkeeper
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Senior Normal Class
Colors: Yellow and White Flower: Daisy
Motto: "Don't stare up the steps of opportunity, step up the stair."
At Rock Springs
This hallowed haunt we call the Secret Shade,
To which a pebbled path leads through the woods;
'Tis here an aged oak long years has stood,
Guarding the sparkling spring that Nature made.
A sand castle filled with dreams glistens there,
Vainly struggling against ripple and foam,
But as winter's wind wrecks the sweet bird's home,
So the spry laughing ripples even dare
To shatter its walls and scatter its hopes;
The pensive violet, thinking, droops her head;
But we, with vim and courage, look instead
To those majestic walls on the campus slopes.
Dear college, you've held our dreams, made them true;
In turn we'll render love and service, too.
Mabel McInnis, '27.
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Senior Normal Class
Mary Alma Alexander
Kinston, N. C.
Emerson Society; Lenoir County Club, '25-'26,
'26-'27; Vice-President of Student Goverment
Association, '27; Proctor, '26; Triple L's, '27' Music.
Elizabeth Allen
Aurora, N. C.
Beaufort County Club, '26, '27; Athletic Association,
'26; Lenoir Society.
Louise Atkinson
Greenville, N. C.
Mabel Baggett
Lewiston, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A.; Athletic Association;
Bertie County Club.
Julia Barrow
Dover, N. C.
Lanier Society.
Audrey Lee Becton
Fremont, N. C.
Lanier Society; Wayne County Club; Proctor, '27.
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Maurine Blackley
Franklinton, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association, '26, '27.
Maude Blackman
Smithfield, N. C.
Y. W. C. A.; Lanier Society; Johnston County Club.
Vara Blackman
Selma, N. C.
Charlotte Rebecca Beddingfield
Milbrook, N. C.
Emerson Society.
Maude Boyette
Kenly, N. C.
Johnston County Club, '26, '27; Lanier Society.
Kate Brett
Ahoskie, N. C.
Poe Society.
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Sula Manolleigh Bissette
Bailey, N. C.
Y. W. C. A.; Athletic Association.
Annie Laurie Brinkley
Glen Alpine, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26; Emerson Society, '27; Stu-
dent Council, '26; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
B. K. Club, '26; Y. W, C. A. Cabinet, '27; Y. W.
C. A. Choir, '27; Budget Committee, '27; Tecoan
Staff, '27; Y. W. C. A. Reporter to Teco Echo
'27; Delegate to Camp Hollow Rock, '26; Dele-
gate to Blue Ridge, '26; Delegate to Student
Volunteer Conference at Elon, '27.
Mattie Bridgeman
Swan Quarter, N. c.
Lanier Society; Secretary Hyde County Club,
'26; Member Hyde County Club, '27.
Mary Louise Britt
Hertford, N. C.
Y. W. C. A., '25-'26, '26-'27; Athletic Association;
Perquimans County Club.
Eloise Brooks
Bath, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Glee Club,
'26; Boco Club, '26.
Emily Cobb Brown
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Essie D. Brown
Swan Quarter, N. C.
Poe Society.
Emma Permelia Bryan
Burgaw, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Athletic
Association, '26, '27.
Hazel P. Bryan
Pikeville, N. C.
Athletic Association; Basketball Team, '25, '26;
Baseball Team, '25, '26; Wayne County Club.
'25, '26; Lanier Society; Proctor, '26. '27; Wearer
of College Letters; Y. W. C. A.
Mary Ledbetter Bryan
Burgaw, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Proctor, '26.
Cecile Bryant/p>
Elm City, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A.; P. P. Club
Mary Louise Butler
Falcon, N. C.
Lanier Society.
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Evelyn Cahoon
Plymouth, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A.
Susie Garner Cannon
Hertford, N. C.
Poe Society.
Julia Clark
Elizabethtown, N. c.
Emerson Society; Marshal; Society Cheer Leader;
Assistant College CHeer Leader.
Linda Cobb
Elm City, N. C.
Emerson Society; Y. W. C. A.; P. P. Club;
Meredith College.
Tempie Colston
Helen Mildred Creech
Selma, N. C.
Lanier Society, '226; Johnston County Club, '25,
'26; Emerson Society, '27; Athletic Assoication,
'26, '27.
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Corinne Dail
Edenton, N. C.
Lillian Amelia Dean
Stovall, N. C.
Lanier Society; Proctor, '26; Granville County Club.
Louise Dula
Wilkesboro, N. C.
Lanier Society; Fun Seekers Club, '27; Athletic
Association, '27.
Elise Dunn
Enfield, N. C.
Lanier Society; Marshal, '27; Tecoan Repre-
sentative, '26; Entertainment Committee, '26,
'27; Statistics, '27.
Margaret Dupree
Faulkland, N. C.
Y. W. C. A., '25, '26; Poe Society; Pitt County,
Club; Athletic Association, '25, '26; Junior
Normal Basketball Team.
Pattie Christine Edmundson
Williamston, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet; Proctor, '26;
Critic of D Class, '27; Triple L Club, '26, '27.
102
Senior Normal Class
Thelma Adel Edwards
Ahoskie, N. C.
Lanier Society.
Mary J. Ellerbe
Rockingham, N. C.
Emerson Society; Athletic Association; Assistant
Editor The Teco Echo; math Club, '27.
Mary Elliott
Hertford, N. C.
Lanier Society; Left Hand Club, '26; D-2 Club,
'26; Athletic Association, '26, '27.
Dorothy Ellis
Sally Ellis
103
Senior Normal Class
Nannie Evans
Greenville, N. C.
Flora Faulk
McDonald, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A.; Proctor, '26;
Secretary and Treasurer Roberson County Club.
Virginia California Ferguson
Murfreesboro, N. C.
Lanier Society, Y. W. C. A.
Anastacia Forbes
Greenville, N. C.
Mamie Alice Fuqua
Mebane, N. C.
Y. W. C. A.; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
Basketball Team. '26, '27; Manager of Basketball
Team. '26.
Masal Fry
Carthage, N. C.
Poe Society
104
Senior Normal Class
Elizabeth Gay
Jackson, N. C.
Lanier Society
Canolia Geddie
Erwin, N. C.
Poe Society, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27;
Athletic Association, '26, '27; I. O. N. Club, '26;
We Are Seven Club, '27.
Mildred Louise Godwin
Columbia, N. C.
Emerson Society; Hyde County Club
Ruth Goodnight
Effie Grant
Selma, N. C.
Flora McDonald Grant
Selma, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A., '25, '26;
Johnston County Club.
105
Senior Normal Class
Cora Lee Green
Warrenton, N. C.
Poe Society.
Evelyn Hardie
Hamlet, N. C.
Archie Harris
Swan Quarter, N. C.
Poe Society; Vice-President Hyde County Club,
'26; Secretary and Treasurer Hyde County Club, '27.
Helen Haskins
Kinston, N. C.
Poe Society. '26, '27; Marshal, '26.
Sarah A. Hart
Seaboard, N. C.
Lanier Society; Northampton County Club.
Mary Smith Heilig
Oriental, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Glee Club, '26, '27;
Y. W. C. A. Choir, '26, '27; College Quartette, '26,
'27; Statistics, '27.
106
Senior Normal Class
Hope Hendren
Wilkesboro, N. C.
Poe Society; Athletic Association; B. K. Club,
'26; President Fun Seekers' Club.
Carrie F. Herring
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Statistics, '27.
Mildred Hester
Greenville, N. C.
Glee Club, '25, '26; Y. W. C. A. Choir, '26;
Lanier Society; Pitt County Club; Athletic
Assoication, '25.
Beatrice Eloise Hicks
Goldsboro, N. C.
Poe Scoiety, '26, '27; Glee Club, '26, '27; Y. W.
C. A. Choir, '26.
Mildred Hines
Black Mountain, N. C.
Julia Costell Hobgood
Oxford, N. C.
Proctor 26; Granco, '26, '27; Poe Society,
'26; Emerson Society, '27; Secretary Emerson
Society, '27.
107
Senior Normal Class
Willie M. Holton
Greenville, N. C.
Mary Lee Hooks
Kenly, N. C.
Lanier Society; Johnston County Club, '26.
Ozie Elizabeth Hughes
Colerain, N. C.
Poe Society; Bertie Hertford Club, '26, '27;
Athletic Association, '26, '27.
Mary Grace Hunt
Wake Forest, N. C.
Poe Society; Wake County Club; Athletic
Association; Wearer of Letters.
Blanche Hutchins
Winton-Salem, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association.
Olive Rochelle Jackson
Cooper, N. C.
Poe Society: Dramatic Club; Athletic
Association, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27;
Fun Seekers' Club.
108
Senior Normal Class
Mavourneen James
South Mills, N. C.
Lanier Society; Secretary and Treasurer of Cam-
donian Club, '26; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27.
Irma Mae Jenkins
Rich Square, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association; Northampton
County Club; Y. W. C. A.
Cora Virginia Johnston
Belhaven, N. C.
Lanier Society; Class Cheer Leader, '27; Vice-
President Beaufort County Club, '27; College
Cheer Leader, '27; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
Basketball Team, '26, '27; D-2 Club, '26; Pres-
ident of Beaufort County Club, '27.
Gertrude Johnson
Kerr, N. C.
Lanier Society; Sampson County Club
Lydia Helen Johnson
Apex, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association; Wake
County Club; Track Team, '26; Wearer of
Letters, '26.
Rebecca Josephine Johnson
Rich Square, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A.; Athletic Association;
Northampton County Club; Left Hand Club.
109
Senior Normal Class
Elizabeth Jones
Greenville, N. C.
Lucile Kee
Pleasant Hill, N. C.
Poe Society; Athletic Association; Northampton
County Club; Procotor
Nolie Helen Keith
Varina, N. C.
Athleic Association, '26, '27; Wake County
Club, '26, '27; Poe Society; Tennis Club, '26, '27;
Eugenia Kernodle
Burlington, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
Wearer of Letters, '26; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27;
Teco Echo Representative for Lanier Society.
Aileen Kilpatrick
Kinston, N. C.
Poe Society; Procotor, '25, '26; Athletic Association,
'25, '26; Lenoir County Club; Y. W. C. A.
Elva Kiser
Bessemer City, N. C.
Poe Society, Wearer of Letters, '27; Vice-Presi-
ident of Left Hand Club, '26; President Gaston
County Club, '27.
110
Senior Normal Class
Pauline Lippard
Statesville, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Athletic Association, '26,
'27; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Iredell County Club,
'25, '26; Fun Seekers' Club, '26, '27.
Rebekah Lansdell Lipscomb
Milton, N. C.
Poe Society, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A '26, '27.
Frances Evelyn Lloyd
Hillsboro, N. C.
Poe Society; Glee Club, '26, '27; Athletic
Association, '26, '27; Basketball Team, '26, '27;
Wearer of Letters, '26; Y. W. C. A. Choir, '26;
'27; Proctor, '27; College Quartette, '26, '27.
Helen Harrell
Mary G. Lyon
Oxford, N. C.
Class Critic, '26; Lanier Society, '26, '27; Gran-
ville County Club, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '26.
Margaret Malloy
Jonesboro, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27;
Proctor, '26, '27.
111
Senior Normal Class
Alma Estelle Marks
Scotland Neck, N. C.
Poe Society, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Ath-
letic Association, '27; "I. O. U." Club, '26; "We
Are Seven" Club, '27; Vice-President Halifax
County Club, '26; Assistant Editor of Tecoan, '27.
Ruth E. Martin
Sanford, N. C.
Poe Society, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '26; Ath-
letic Association, '26, '27.
Annie W. Midgett
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Lanier Society; Pasquotank County Club.
Nettie Maybelle Mitchell
Goldsboro, N. C.
Glee Club, '26; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
Poe Society; Wayne County Club; N. G. F. Club;
Secretary Y. W. C. A. Choir.
Esther Mason
Atlantic, N. C.
Odessa Belle Mitchell
Colerain, N. C.
Poe Society; Athletic Association, '26; Bertie-
Hertford County Club, '26; Bertie County Club,
'27; County Club Reporter to Teco Echo, '27;
Y. W. C. A., '26.
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Jean Johnson Morton
Wilmington, N. C.
Glee Club, '26; Reporter, '27; Violin
Ensemble, '26; Poe Society, '26, '27; Athletic Asso-
ciation, '26, '27; Teco Echo Class Representative,
Y. W. C. A. '26, '27.
Martha Eleanor Moseley
Kinston, N. C.
Poe Society; Athletic Association; Proctor.
Christine Virginia McDaniel
Kinston, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26; Emerson Society, '27; Y. W.
C. A.; Athletic Association; Proctor,'26; Lenoir
County Club, '26, '27; F. P. Club, '27; Tecoan
Representative from D Class, '27.
Mabel McInnis
Gibson, N. C.
Poe Society, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '27; Class
Poet, '26; Treasurer Senior Normal Class, '27;
Triple Ls, '27; Representative to Tecoan from
Poe Society, '27.
Nina McLawhorn
Winterville, N. C.
Reba McLeod
Angier, N. C.
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Mary Belle McMillan
Red Springs, N. C.
Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Roberson County Club,
'26, '27; Lanier Society, '26, '27.
Helen Rebekah Newell
Reidsville, N. C.
Y. W. C. A., '26; Athletic Association, '26; Poe
Literary Society, '26; Emerson Society, '27;
Statictics, '27.
Christine Nichols
Morehead City, N. C.
Poe Scoiety; House President; Reporter to Teco
Echo of Student Government Activities, '27.
Lurline Nichols
Durham, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association; Basketball
Team, '26; Wearer of Letters, '26.
Frances Norman
Greenville, N. C.
Poe Society
Louanna Overcash
Kannapolis, N. C.
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Louisa Overman
Pikeville, N. C.
Athletic Association; Treasurer Wayne County
Club, '26; Poe Society' Wearer of Letters, '26;
Freshman Basketball Team, '26; Y. W. C. A.;
Home Economics Club, '26.
Pauline Owens
Farmville, N. C.
Emerson Society.
Annie Mae Patton
Davidson River, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27.
Sarah Edna Pearce
South Mills, N. C.
Lanier Society; Camden County Club.
Katherine Peele
Gibson, N. C.
Member South Carolina Club, '26, '27; Vice-
President of Scotland County Club, '27.
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Janie Bett Pierce
Ayden, N. C.
Poe Society; Pitt County Club, '26, '27.
Inez Peterson
Savannah, GA.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A.; Basketball, '26. '27;
Athletic Association, '26, '27; B. K. Club, '26;
Wearer of Letters, '26.
Mittilulah Pittard
Hester, N. C.
Granville County Club, '26, '27; Proctor, '26;
Lanier Society; Fun Seeker, '27; Y. W. C.
A., '27.
Lydia Inez Pittman
Micro, N. C.
Poe Society; Johnston County Club, '26, '27.
Marjorie Glenn Phillips
Washington, N. C.
Poe Society; Marshal, '27; Beauco Club, '26;
Basketball Team, '26, '27;
Captain BasketballTeam, '26, '27; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
Captain Athenian Society, '27; House of Repre-
sentatives, '27.
Virginia B. Pittard
Oxford, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Gran County Club, '26.
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Jeanette Lewis Powell
Enfield, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A.. '27; Athletic Asso-
ciation, '26, '27; Halifax County Club, '26.
Mary Pullen
Spring Hope, N. C.
Bettie Radford
Swannanoa, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Athletic Association,
'26; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27.
Laurie Virginia Ratcliffe
Raleigh, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Athletic
Association, '27; Wake County Club, '26; Secre-
tary Wake County Club, 27; Secretary Senior
Normal Class, '27.
Mabel Christine Regan
Lumberton, N. C.
Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Y. W. Cabinet, '27;
Treasurer Junior Normal Class, '26; S. G. Council,
'27; Proctor, '26; Poe Society, '26, '27;
Athletic Association, '26, '27; Roberson County
Club, '26; President Roberson County Club, '27;
Triple L Club, '26, '27.
Hilda Robbins
Washington, N. C.
Lanier Society; Secretary and Treasurer Beau-
fort County Club, '26; Y. W. C. A.; P. P.
Club, '27.
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Evelyn Hope Short
Fremont, N. C.
Emerson Society; Y. W. C. A.
Maude Cornelia Siler
Morrisville, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Member of Wake County
Club, '26.
Annie Lee Smith
Monroe, N. C.
Poe Society; Athletic Association; Y. W. C. A.,
'26, '27; Vice-President Union County Club.
Geneva Smith
Marietta, N. C.
Lanier Society; Roberson County Club, '26, '27;
Athletic Assocciation; Y. W. C. A.
Georgia Smith
Greenville, N. C.
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Janie Rea Smith
Troutman, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Athletic Association,
'26, '27; Member Y. W. C. A., '26; Secretary
of Iredell County Club, '26; Fun Seekers'
Club, '27.
Julia Louise Smith
Genoa, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association; Y. W. C.
A.; Basketball Squad, '24; Hiking Club, '24.
Mary Katherine Smith
Red Springs, N. C.
Lanier Society; Roberson County Club, '26, '27;
Athletic Association; Y. W. C. A.
Lucy Smith
Greenville, N. C.
Poe Society.
Pearl Smith
Atlantic, N. C.
Annie Spivey
Rich Square, N. C.
Senior-Normal Representative on Council; Y. W.
C. A.; Emerson Society.
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Ida Grace Roberson
White Oak, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A.; Athletic Association.
Fannie Roberts
Beatrice Roberson
Roper, N. C.
Lanier Society
Nancy Roberson
Morven, N. C.
Vivian Elizabeth Sanders
Weldon, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A.
Valeria Sexton
Enfield, N. C.
Lanier Society; Secretary Halifax County Club,
'26; Y. W. C. A. Choir, '26, '27; Athletic Asso-
ciation. '27; House Vice-President, '27; Vice-
President Fun Seekers' Club, '27.
120
Senior Normal Class
Helen Stearn
Belhaven, N. C.
Poe society; Secretary of Beaufort County
Club, '26.
Eunice Blanche Stephenson
Garysburg, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
Y. W. C. A., '26, '27
Lina Stanton
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Lanier Society; Pasquatank County Club.
Johnnie Lee Stewart
Dunn, N. C.
Poe Society, '26, '27; Sergeant-at-Arms, '26;
Statistics, '26; Sergeant-at-Arms Junior
Normal Class, '26; P. P. ciub, '26.
Ruby Swindell
Washington, N. C.
Emerson Society.
Meredith Swain
Raleigh, N. C.
Emerson Society.
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Sarah Augusta Sykes
Columbia, N. C.
Poe Society.
Thelma Sylivant
Snow Hill, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A.
Estelle Talton
Smithfield, N. C.
Poe Society.
Velma Talton
Selma, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27; Secretary
Junior Normal Class, '26; Emerson Society, '27;
Johnston County Club; Athletic Association, '26,
'27; Sainted Devils Club, '27; Assistant Cheer
Leader Senior Normal Class, '27; Class Cartoonist,
'27.
Iola Tankard
Washington, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Beauco Club, '27; P. P.
Club, '27; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27.
Edna Tatum
Ingold, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A.; Athletic Association.
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Dixie Margaret Taylor
New Bern, N. C.
Lanier Society; Proctor, '26; President Junior
Normal Class, '26; Undergraduate Representative
of Y. W. C. A.; President Senior Normal
Class, '27; News Bureau, '27; Craven County
Club, '27; Delegate to Camp Hollow Rock, '26.
Nannie Alice Taylor
Kinston, N. C.
Athletic Association, '26; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27;
Poe Society, '26, '27; Triple L Club, '26, '27;
Proctor, '26.
Jessie A. Tharpe
Rosemary, N. C.
Pop Society; Y. W. C. A.
Pauline Elizabeth Troy
Wilmington, N. C.
Emerson Society; Y. W. C. A.
Carol Truitt
Oriental, N. C.
Emerson Society; Athletic Association; Y. W. C. A.
Bruce Tucker
Greenville, N. C.
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Nellie Turner
Mebane, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
Y. W. C. A.
Bertha Tyson
Myrtle C. Umstead
Stem, N. C.
Poe Society; Y. W. C. A,; Granville County
Club, '27.
Dorothy Anne Viverette
Enfield, N. C.
Poe Society, '26; Emerson Society, '27; Halifax
County Club, '26, '27; "We Are Seven" Club, '27.
Augusta Walker
Columbia, N. C.
Lorine Walker
Columbia, N. C.
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Margaret Elizabeth Walker
Graham, N. C.
Poe Society; Proctor, '26; Athletic Association,
'26, '27.
Mary Elizabeth Watson
Conway, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Northampton County Club.
Lillian Deborah Walston
Scotland Neck, N. C.
Poe Society, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '27; Athletic
Association, '27; "I. O. U." Club, '26; Treasurer
of Halifax County Club, '26; Assistant Business
Manager of Teco Echo, '27; "We Are Seven"
Club, '27.
Ertie Boyd Warren
Littleton, N. C.
Lanier Society; Athletic Association; Halifax
County Club, '26; Secretary Fun Seekers' Club, '26.
Mary Wall
Virginia Watson
Jonesboro, N. C.
Lanier Society.
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Lodie B. Weaver
Bessemer City, N. C.
Poe Society, '26, '27; Athletic Club, '26, '27.
Asenath Godwin Wellons
Selma, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A. '26, '27; Y. W. C.
A. Choir, '26, '27; Glee Club, '26, '27; Proctor,
'27; Vice President of D Class, '27; Johnston
County Club.
Harriett Elizabeth Wells
Willard, N. C.
Susie Wells
Teacheys, N. C.
Ida Laura West
Poe Society; Athletic Association; Y. W. C. A.;
Reporter Teco Echo, '27; Craven County Club, '27.
Juanita West
Stantonburg, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Y. W. C A., '25, '26.
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Ada Jackson White
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Lanier Society; Pasquatank Tribe.
Virginia Dare White
Hobgood, N. C.
Poe Society; Athletic Association, '26; Wearer
of Letters, '26; Halifax County Club; Y. W.
C. A., '26, '27.
Doris Whitehurst
Bethel, N. C.
Elizabeth W. Whitehurst
South Mills, N. C.
Lanier Society; Camdonian, '26.
Margaret Whitfield
Franklin, N. C.
Emerson Society.
Christine Williams
South Mills, N. C.
Poe Society; Camdonian Club, '25; Y. W. C. A.,
'26, '27.
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Clora Rebecca Williams
Beulaville, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26, '27; Athletic Association,
;26, '27.
Martha Mae Williams
Kinston, N. C.
Poe Society; Athletic Association, '26, '27;
Granco Club, '26, '27; Y. W. C. A., '26, '27.
Annie Mae Winslow
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Poe Society; Pasquotank Club, '26, '27; Y. w.
C. A., '26.
Julia Minor Wood
Goldsboro, N. C.
Lanier Society; Wearer of Letters, '26; Athletic
Association; Wayne County Club, '26; N. G. F., '26.
Martha Rowena Wood
Warrenton, N. C.
Poe Society; Debating Club; Athletic Association,
'26, '27; Fun Seekers' Club, '27; Tennis
Tournament, '26.
Elizabeth Woody
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Martha Clyda Woodard
Kenly, N. C.
Poe Society; Proctor, '26; President of Johnston
County Club, '26; Teco Echo Reporter, '26;
Y. W. C. A., '26.
Edna Evelyn Woodard
Norfolk, N. C.
Lanier Society, '26; Emerson Society, '26;
Beaufort County Club, '26, '27; Treasurer of
Athletic Association, '26, '27; Basketball Team,
'25, '26, '27; D-2 Club, '25, '26; Assistant Man-
ager of Glee Club, '25, 26, '27; Glee Club, '26,
'27; Wearer of Letters, '25, '26; Y. W. C. A.
Caroline Elizabeth Wyche
Weldon, N. C.
Lanier Society; Y. W. C. A.
Louise Dickerson
Greenville, N. C.
Carrie Mae Dunn
Kinston, N. C.
Lois Mann
Middleton, N. C.
Lanier Society
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Effie Martin
Bethel, N. C.
Myrtle Gardner
Angier, N. C.
Sallie McQueen
Laurinburg, N. C.
Ruth Harrell
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Lela Talton
Smithfield, N. C.
Vera Tomlinson
Hilda Credle
Scranton, N. C.
Y. W. C. A.; Athletic Association.
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Tecoan 1927
Senior Normal Class History
IT WAS A MORNING in May, 1933; two girls sat in the library of East Carolina
Teachers College, supposedly doing the usual reference work, but really discussing the
coming commencement and their graduation. They were seniors and were very elated
because commencement was only a few weeks away.
While they were looking through a huge book, one espied what appeared to be an old theme,
but which, after carefully examining it, she decided was something even more interesting, and
exclaimed with pleasure, "Just look what I have found in this book."
"What is it?" the other cried eagerly.
"A history of the Senior-Normal Class of '27, the guests of honor this year in the class reunion.
"Oh, do let's hear it!" was the reply.
On September 30, 1925, East Carolina Teachers College opened with bright prospects for a
prosperous year. We, the freshmen, or "Cs" as we were called, were probably the most down-
hearted of all that body assembled here. It was a strange place to those of US whose previous
knowledge of it was confined to the catalogue requirements for entrance.
The corridors seemed alive with eager "old girls" greeting one another; and as we timid
newcomers watched them, we wondered how they could feel so light-hearted and gay.
When we left the corridors, we ran into a crowd of girls moving in and out of a tiny room.
We wondered if this room contained some "freak of nature," but on inquiring we found it more
fascinating than any carnival freak could be, for it was the postoffice, and we wanted mail from
home. We soon joined the rush that came at the postoffice before each meal.
After learning the way ten places on the campus, we began to feel very wise; but when we
met our first classes, the faculty stamped a different impression on our minds, and we settled
down to hard work.
The brightest recollection of those first few days of disillusion is the thought of our "big
sisters" from the Class of '26. They refrained from laughing at our many ridiculous mistakes
and helped us to feel at home. Others who offered us a helping hand were the Y. W. C. A.
members, who gave us a royal welcome in a reception on the front campus. Never shall we for-
get their kindness to us.
Our minds next turned to that much looked for and much dreaded night by the freshmen-
teh night of society initiations. We managed to live through the ordeal, however, and were able
to meet and organize our class.
A hot race for the presidency was run, in which Thelma Lassiter came out on top. At
Christmas time, however, much to our sorrow, Thelma decided to take an experimental course
in Home Economics, and entered the matrimonial field. So Dixie Taylor was elected president
in her place and soon gained the love of the entire student body. She worked for us more than
any other one person will ever be able.
With a strong president at our head we went through the year with only the basketball games
at Thanksgiving, a party, a hike, or a musical entertainment at intervals.
The following September we again heard the bells ringing, saw the notices and schedules
posted, joined in the rush to the postoffice and felt that we had returned home, for this time
everything was different. We felt very sophisticated when we saw the shyness of the newcomers
and directed them to the various places of interest. Also we felt happy now to become "big
sisters" ourselves.
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There was no doubt in our minds this year as to whom we wanted for president. No one
could do more for us than our own Dixie Taylor, former president. She was unanimously re-
elected.
Though the events of this year were much the same as in the previous one, they were looked
upon in quite a different manner by us. For were we not Senior-Normals? With much re-
joicing we made plans for initiation and then for the Thanksgiving basketball games. Our
team worked hard for victory, yet, when we were defeated, we took our medicine bravely and
congratulated the "Cs" on having such a splendid team as to beat us, the Senior-Normals.
Thanksgiving being over, we began to study, for we realized if we did not, that our reputa-
tion as a class would gravely suffer.
A few facts might be mentioned in connection with our class. We enjoyed the distinction
of having both the college cheer leaders come from the D's of '27; of having several members of
our class on the Student Council, one of whom was vice-president; of having one member of our
class as assistant editor-in-chief of the Tecoan, and several others on the Tccoan staff and the
Teco Echo staff; and of having several members on the Y. W. C. A. cabinet. We think, indeed,
that our group was very well represented in the college activities.
The dignity required of us as seniors or "Ds" was exacting, yet flattering; and since time
passes quickly when we are happy, our senior year seemed short. We, two hundred and five in
number, partook of all the honors, pleasures, and joys that are due seniors; and when we stopped
for a moment to recall the past and consider the future, there came a thrill of sadness as well
as of joy; and there was in our hearts a great welling up of gratitude to our college.
You led us ever forward
As we strove to win success;
And we will ever labor
Our deep faith to express.
With love and honor laden,
We'll pledge ourselves each day
To serve and honor you
Forever and for aye.
"That was only six years ago. How strange it seems that there were only two hundred
and five," mused the reader, having finished.
"The school surely has grown, and our class of five hundred does seem large compared with
theirs, doesn't it; but did you notice that, after all, their experience were much the same as
ours?" replied the other.
"Yes, how much their history sounds like the one I wrote for our class!" answered the first.
"I do wish someone would find a way to create originality in class histories!"
Canolia Geddie.
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The Last Will and Testament
of the Senior-Normal
of 1927
WE, THE MEMBERS of the Senior Normal Class of '27, having
completed our work in East Carolina Teachers College, and
approaching our individual fields of work, wish in some way to
express our unmeasured gratitude for the knowledge and inspiration
that have come to us through the unremitting efforts of the officers and
teachers of this institution.
As a feeble attempt, therefore, to establish a permanent evidence of
our gratitude and unfailing fidelity to you, our Alma Mater, we do
hereby will and bequeath to you two paintings to be hung in the parlors
of Dormitory B-tokens which are only our "widow's mite" but accompanied
by our sincerest love for you, our helper and guide. May these
material pieces from the hands of the artist be only a symbol of
our greater gift to you-our loyalty to you through our loyalty to the
college motto "To Serve."
Signed and sealed on the eighth day of June, A. D., Nineteen Hun-
dred and Twenty-seven,
By Pauline Troy.
Witnesses:
Dixie Taylor, President.
Asenath Wellons, Vice-President.
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Senior Normal Statistics
Hilda Robbins
MOST ORIGINAL
Marjorie Phillips
BEST ATHLETE
Annie Laurie Brinkley
MOST POPULAR
Mabel Regan
BEST ALL-ROUND
Carrie Frances Herring
MOST STYLISH
Mary Ellerbe
MOST INTELLECTUAL
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Senior Normal Statistics
Mabel McInnis
MOST CHARMING
Cora Johnston
BEST SPORT
"Midge" Hines
MOST ATTRACTIVE
Evelyn Lloyd
MOST INNOCENT
Jean Morton
MOST MUSICAL
Dixie Taylor
MOST DIGNIFIED
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"Our meeting, though happy, was tinged by a sorrow,
To think that such happiness could not remain;
While our parting, though sad, gave a hope that tomorrow
Would bring back the bless'd hour of meeting again."
Thomas Moore.
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Dail Laughinghouse, Jr.
MASCOT OF
JUNIOR NORMAL CLASS
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Only a "C" Class
Only a "C" Class, but it matters a lot
That we fly from our mast the silver and old rose;
On stormy seas beneath it we've fought,
And now we are proud-our victory to disclose.
Only a "C" Class; yet he who reads
The daily hopes and aims of each heart,
Can see the valor of our brave deeds
And heroic way we've done our humble part.
Only a "C" Class on virtue's ship,
Obeying our captain's "Climb up the mast!"
Aloft we follow, and none shall trip
In the dangers high we meet-Faith binds us fast.
Dear College, our lighthouse, send a beam
So clear and true to the heart of each "C,"
That calmly we'll sail, still following the gleam
That guides our "Fellowship" o'er the raging sea.
Beam on, dear light, still point the way
Of those who see from the distance far,
Thy radiance that will lead us never astray,
But be, in the darkest night, our guiding star!
FINETTE STANFIELD, '28.
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Frances Hooker
President
Junior Normal Class
OFFICERS
Margaret McDonald Vice-President
Jeannette Sessoms Secretary
Marie Whitehurst Treasurer
Flora Tarkington Student Government Representative
Louise Roebuck Cheer Leader
Bernice Dixon Critic
Martha Mason Doorkeeper
Ellie Ford Hinson Teco-Echo Reporter
Cynthia Daughtery Tecoan
JUNIOR NORMAL CLAS
S-PRIMARY SECTION
Tecoan 1927
Junior Normal Class Roll
Pauline Anderson
Martha Elliott
Gladys Little
Virginia Dare Askew
Alma Eason
Mary Liverman
Dorothy Austin
Eleanor Edmunson
Lizzie Mann
Ruby Batchelor
Lettie Ellington
Katie Mann
Annie Mae Baugham
Mary Evans
Hazel Marshall
Ethel R. Baskin
Elizabeth Faircloth
Eloise Marslender
Hazel D. Barnes
Elizabeth Ferrell
Brownie Martin
Ethel Barnette
Clara Fitzgerald
Martha Mason
Jessie Baker
Pearla Futrelle
Lillian Mayes
Mary Benson
Mamie Futrelle
Aileen Mewborn
Selma Bradly
Hester Gist
Lula Lang Mewborn
Grace Blowe
Sula Feddie
Clara Miller
Annie James Boone
Elizabeth Gooding
Helen Minton
Emma Boone
Gladys Grantham
Virginia Mitchiner
Hazel Bowers
Audrey Grizzard
Merle Moore
Ada Margaret Bowden
Lillian Haselden
Rosa Morris
Dorothy Bridgers
Rachael Hancock
Margaret McDonald
Ruby Brite
Lula Hood
Virginia McIntyre
Margaret Brodgen
Frances Hooker
Sara McKellar
Clara Brown
Mary Lee Hooks
Gladys McLean
Marjorie Bryon
Elizabeth Hodges
Sammie McManus
Ruth Bryant
Mae Hooper
Mittie Norwood
Maria Burnette
Mae Horne
Bennie O'Brien
Jennie Lee Burroughs
Ellie Hinson
Clara Oliver
Margaret Butt
Mozelle Hoffler
Elsie Outland
Dorothy Connor
Mary Herring
Ruth Parker
Rosa Lee Cuthrell
Christine House
Merle Pearson
Edith Groome
Dorothy Humphreys
Hannah Picot
Annie Laurie Cannon
Clauda Irvin
Addie Presnell
Margarette Campbelle
Gladys Jenkins
Flossie Presnell
Marie Chenault
Catherine James
Elizabeth Pritchard
Edna Dameron
Odessa Jarvis
Margaret Railey
Ethel Davenport
Mary Jarvis
Virginia Reele
Mildred Davenport
Jewell Jackson
Gertrude Redfern
Pauline Davenport
Louise Jilcott
Mary Rice
Antoinette Darden
Reba Johnson
Louise Roebuck
Cynthia Daughtery
Gladys Jones
Jessie Rose
Bernice Davis
Mabel Jorner
Kathleen Ross
Christine Debnam
Mae Keith
Winiford Rouse
Edna Dixon
Mildred Kennedy
Ruth Royster
Bernice Dixon
Mary Knox
Annie Satterthwaite
Janie Dixon
Frances Koonce
Anne Saunders
Helen Duke
Zenobia Lancaster
Jeannette Sessoms
Helen Dulse
Dorothy Lee
Virginia Shell
Alene Earley
Evelyn Leary
Melvena Smith
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Wilma Snoody
Grace Bowen
Eddie Langston
Finette Stanfield
Esther Blackman
May Livington
Lilly Stanley
Evelyn Broughton
Elvira Towery
Mildred Stanford
Jessie Braswell
Irma McLawhon
Clara Stroud
Helen Burden
Janie McPhail
Julia Stewart
Louise Butler
Mabel Lynn
Addie Summerell
Mildred Cade
Sallie Miller
Sallie Sutton
Ida Cahoon
Lucille Minschew
Mary Swindell
Carrie Caraway
Lucille Mitchelle
Lela Talton
Wilma Cartwright
Della Monk
Estelle Talton
Minnie Clark
Mary Morton
Helen Taylor
Olive Clark
Josie Muse
Flora Tarkington
Marguerite Cooke
Annie Nichols
Aileen Tripp
Elizabeth Corbett
Charlotte Nixon
Mary Traynham
Lela Davenport
Wilma Parker
Mattie Thoroughgood
Ava Dawson
Elizabeth Perry
Hazel Umstead
Mary Lee Dixon
Mary Powell
Myrtle Umstead
Kizzie Dunn
Helen Proctor
Myrtle Vann
Estelle Ellen
Myrtle Pryce
Inez Vaughan
Myrtle Everett
Margaret Robbins
Beulah Vick
Janie Erwin
Alice Roebuck
Margaret Ward
Reba Flowers
Hazel Roberson
Bertha Welch
Marguerite Gardner
Ruth Rogers
Bessie Wheeler
Mary Gardner
Margie Scott
Marie Whitehurst
Lela Gibson
Katie Simmons
Ruth Whitfield
Mae Gibson
Helen Spears
Nannie Whitty
Zella Gibson
Hildred Swain
Thelma Wilcox
Jane Griffin
Mildred Taylor
Bertie Williams
Louise Hamer
Elizabeth Teal
Genevieve Williams
Lola Harper
Myrtle Harrington
Lillian Williams
Willa Horton
Cormelia Thompson
Laura Windley
Eugenia Hudson
Mildred Vail
Blanche Wood
Mabel Jackson
Willie Wagstaff
Mary Wooten
Vivian James
Ruth Waters
Willard Allen
Ruby Jackson
Helen White
Betty Barker
Clara Jackson
Beatrice Whitfield
Julia Barrow
Martha Jones
Anna Whitlock
Mary Belk
Novella Jones
Merle Wiggins
Ida Bennett
Ruby Jordon
Elizabeth Wilson
Virginia Boyd
Hazel Joyner
Grace Wooten
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INTERMEDIATE SECTION
TECOAN 1927
ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH AT BATH
THE OLDEST CHURCH IN
NORTH CAROLINA
Book Three
Activities
Tecoan 1927
Viola Jones
President of Student Government Association
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Mabel Regan House President
Alma Alexander Vice-President
Bronnie Cogdell House President
Annie Batts House President
Margie Cladwell Secretary
Vallie Sumrell House President
Ethel Spratt House President
Lillian Colson Treasurer
Christine Nichols House President
STUDENT COUNCIL
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Nora Lee Gaddy Senior Class Representative
Delma Smith Junior Class Representative
Hilda Sutton Sophomore Class Representative
Gladys Tingle Chair Campus Committee
Mary Gray Moore Y. W. C. A. President
Eliza Walters Freshman Class Representative
Annie Spivey Representative "D" Class
Flora Tarkington Repersentative "C" Class
STUDENT COUCIL
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House of Representatives
Lucy Wells
Bessie Sumerell
Vivian Sanders
Valeria Sexton
Marjorie Phillips
Grace Hunt
Elizabeth Smith
Sarah Gurley
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Mary Gray Moore
President of Y. W. C. A.
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Doralita Larkins Treasurer
Elizabeth Smith Vice-President
Nina Ruth Rouse Secretary
Dixie Taylor U. R.
Mabel Regan World Felloship
Virginia Blount Social Service
Annie Batts Social
Laura Sloan Music
Annie Laurie Binkley Publicity
Pattie Edmondson Religious
Evelyn Hutcheson Teco Echo Reporters
Y. W. C. A. OFFICERS
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Y. W. C. A. CHOIR
Y. W. SNAPS
Tecoan 1927
Follow The Gleam.
The Silver Bay Prize Song, 1920. Written by Bryn Mawr College.
1. To the Knights in the days of old,............Keep-ing watch on the moun- tain heights....
2. And we who would serve the King, And loy - al - ly Him o - bey,...
Came a vis- ion of Ho ly Grail........And a voice through the wait-ing night...Fol-low,
In the con - se- cratesi - lence know....That the chal-lende still hold to - day...Fol-low,
Fol - low fol- low the gleam Ban-ners un - furled o'er all the world, Flo- low,
fol- low, fol- low the gleam Of the Chal- ice that is the Grail....
Fol- low, fol- low the gleam Stand-ards of worth o'er all the earth, Fol-low,
fol - low, fol- low teh gleam Of the light that shall bring the dawn...
Used by the kind permission of Sailie Hume Douglas, Composer.
Tecoan 1927
College Cheer Leaders
Julia Clark
Cora Johnston"
College Yell
Rah! Rah!
Who-o-o-o-O-O-O-O
Teachers College!
Rah! Rah!
Boom! Rah!
Teachers College!
Teachers College!!!
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Good Sportsmanship
Good sportsmanship is to be prized above all;
And even though we've lost a game on points,
If we've enjoyed ourselves and played the game,
And at the end are able to say to all,
We've done our best no matter what the score,
Then we have truly formed a high ideal,
An inspiration for our future years-
GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP.
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Sarah Gurley
President
Athletic Association
OFFICERS
Delma Smith Secretary
Edna Woodard Business Manager and Treasurer
Vera Wester Teco-Echo Reporter
Bronnie Cogdell Tecoan Representative
Sarah Gurley Rep. to House of Representatives
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Wearers of College Monogram
The wearers of the College Monogram are those members of the Athletic Asso6ciation who,
by various athletic activities and health rules, have made throughout the year 500 points.
Tecoan 1927
ATHENIAN, OLYMPIAN GROUPS
Tecoan 1927
JUNIORS
JUNIOR NORMAL
Winning Basketball Teams of 1926
Tecoan 1927
SENIOR
SENIOR NORMAL
SOPHOMORE
FRESHMAN
Class Basketball Teams
Tecoan 1927
CLASS CHEER LEADERS
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Emerson-A Tribute
Emerson-poet, sage, philosopher-
Taught not men to follow after,
But to act with Self-Reliance.
In his Character we view him
Filled with Gifts of Heroism.
Followed he his inmost calling-
Let his Over-Soul be master.
Led by him, who by his manners,
Taught the law of Compensation,
Youth steps forward, has opinions,
Leaves the ranks of imitation,
Forges onward, blazes highroads,
Stands alone, and braves the world.
B. W., '28.
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Mamie Copeland
President
Ethel Spratt
Vice-President
Julia Clark
Cheer Leader
Elizabeth Smith
Treasurer
Zilpah Frisbie
Critic
Julia Hobgood
Secretary
EMERSON SOCIETY OFFICERS
166
EMERSON SOCIETY
Tecoan 1927
Julia Clark
Louise Evans
Carrie Lee Peele
MARSHALS FOR EMERSON SOCIETY
168
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Lanier Society Song
Tune: "On the Mall"
Let us sing a song of praise to our society,
Hail, to thee, Sidney Lanier!
Loyal members ever proving your sobriety,
Though our fun to us e'er will be dear.
Then let us to our banner, each our tribute pay,
Let us ever our motto uphold,
Always faithful, true and loyal to thee, night and day.
Hurrah! for the Green and Gold.
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virginia Blount
President
Ruth Joens
Vice-President
Edna Dixon
Cheer Leader
Elizabeth Newsome
Treasurer
Elizabeth Murphy
Critic
Laura Sloan
Secretary
LANIER SOCIETY OFFICERS
170
LANIER SOCIETY
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Elise Dunn
Irma Jenkins
Frances Dixon
LANIER SOCIETY MARSHALS
172
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Poe Song
Oh, Edgar, Oh Edgar Allan!
We are the Edgar Allan Poes.
We are the Society,
Choice and picked variety.
Oh, Edgar, Oh Edgar Allan!
We are the Edgar Allan Poes.
March on! March on!
Beneath the red and white.
For we will conquer all our foes,
And we're sure to win in every fight.
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Vera Wester Vice-President
Gladys Parson President
Mildred Sasser Treasurer
Mary Cummings Cheer Leader
Effie West Critic
Hortense Mozingo Secretary
Poe Society Officers
174
POE SOCIETY
Tecoan 1927
Elizabeth Austin
Mary Cummings
Marjorie Phillips
Helen Haskins
POE SOCIETY MARSHALS
176
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Gladys Kilpatrick, Chief Marshal
177
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Inter-Society Committee
Annie Batts, Chairman
Mamie Copeland
Carrie Lee Peele
Virginia Blount
Catharine Clark
Gladys Parson
Mary Holt
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Gray Moore
Viola Jones
FACULTY ADVISERS
Miss Turner
Mr. Picklesimer
Mr. Henderson
Mr. Meadows
Miss Howard
Mr. Slay
178
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Home Economics Club
Officers
Kathleen Faison President
Mary Campbell Vice-President
Sara Fussell Secretary
Hilda Sutton Treasurer
Class of '27
Virginia Blount
Eloise Riggs
Lucy Wells
Gladys Kilpatrick
Ella Wheeler Tucker
Margaret Williams
Class of '28
Ina Bishop
Sarah B. Jenkins
Mary Campbell
Mary Banks
Janie Bell
Johnston Catharine Clark
Kathleen Faison
Ruth Rhyne
Elsie Seago
Julia Satherwaite
Class of '29
Ada Allen
Sara Fussell
Evelyn Ewell
Elizabeth Austin
Hilda Sutton
Elizabeth Murphy
Evelyn Tillman
Class of '30
Grace Whitley
Sara Long Johnson
Eva Scott
Cleo Brindle
Marcella Deal
Mildred Sasser
Evelyn Caldwell
Irene Scott
Elizabeth Spears
Elva Frisbie
Mozelle Lee
Anna Belle Tyson
Mildred Mallard
Faculty Members
Miss Bomar
Miss Dean
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Miriam Revelise
Nancy Hinson-Vice-President
Doralita Larkins-President
Evelyn Hutcheson, Secretary and Treasurer
Gertrude Mercer
Annie Batts
Mildred Mangum
Mary Frances Jenkins
Beulah Carrl
Althea Dudley
Mildred Herring
Hortense Mozingo
Catherine Hill
Ella Flemming
Miss Emma Hooper
Ethel Spratt
Martha Stewart
Ruth McGowan
Mary Hocutt
Miss Irene Hand
Nina Ruth Rouse
Miss Mamie Jenkins
Mr. Leon Meadows
Miss Lucille Turner
Bessie Willis
ENGLISH CLUB
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Olivia Forbes
Alice Foley
Gladys Parsons
Margaret Pickette
Anna Badham
Julia Lancaster
Louise Grissom
Viola Scott
Inez Van Dyke
Sarah Gurley
Irene Kahn
Delma Smith
Dorothy Currin Ellis
Pauline Martin
Lucille Britt
Clara Lee Spruill
Lelia Askew
Vera Wester
MATHEMATICS CLUB
Faculty Members
Miss Maria D. Graham
Miss Ella Wilkes
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Phi Epsilon
Colors: Gold and Black Flower: Black-eyed Susan
Motto: "I Do"
Flower: Black-eyed Susan
Margaget Williams, President
Vera Wester Vice-President
Margaret Shaw Secretary
Lillian Colson Treasurer
Hortense Mozingo Reporter
MEMBERS
Elizabeth Austin
Evelyn Ewell
Eloise Riggs
Ina Bishop
Kathleen Faison
Lucille Sermons
Virginia Blount
Ella Fleming
Delma Smith
Alverta Brendle
Sarah Gurley
Elizabeth Smith
Lucile Britt
Mildred Herring
Emily Smithwick
Mary Campbell
Emma Jacobs
Clara Lee Spruill
Catharine Clark
Mary Frances Jenkins
Clyde Stokes
Bronnie Cogdell
Janie Belle Johnson
Ella Wheeler Tucker
Mamie Copeland
Doralita Larkins
Lucy Wells
Ruth McGowan
Mary Gray Moore
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Tecoan 1927
Elizabeth Smith Treasurer
Laura Sloan President
Gladys Tingle Vice-President
Annie Batts Secretary
Mr. R. C. Deal Faculty Member
Mildred Herring Teco Echo Reporter
Mary Holt
Gladys Parsons
Nina Ruth Rouse
Doralita Larkins
Ethel Spratt
Mary Gray Moore
Viola Jones
PHI SIGMA
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Ora Brick House
Pasquotank County Club
To those who perpetuate the memory of the heart-throbbing tales of
him, The Pirate Blackbeard, who occupied this
house in days gone by, we add
The Pasquatank Tribe
Motto: "Turn Over and Take It Easy"
Flower: Water Lily
Officers
Emma Jacobs President
Ruth Harrell Secretary and Treasurer
Members
Evelyn Jennings
Ada White
Eunice Richardson
Ann Winslow
Wilma Cartwright
Evelyn Leary
Mae Hooper
Annie Midgette
Vivian James
Lina Stanton
Emma Jacobs
Ruby Brite
Ruth Harrell
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THE CHRISTENING OF LAKE MATTAMUSKEET
Hyde County Club
Our tribe bound together by customs, traditions, and manner of speech, peculiar to our section,
gaze into the Lake and recall with interest its christening by the Indians, Mattamuskeet, which
means shallow water.
Colors: Green and White
Flower: Pond Lily
Officers
Hilda Credle President
Lizzie Mann Vice-President
Archie Bass Secretary and Treasurer
MEMBERS
Ella Lee Boomer
Lois Mann
Hortense Boomer
Katie Mann
Mattie Bridgeman
Lizzie Mann
Hilda Credle
Mable Lynn Mann
Mildred Godwin
Alida Swindell
Archie Harris
Mary Swindell
Mary Etta Jarvis
Elain Tunnel
Mary White
Ruby Midgette (Honorary Member)
186
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Lenoir County Club
Richard E. Caswell, First Governor of North Carolina,
was born in Lenoir County.
OFFICERS
Lula Lang Mewborne President
Catherine Hill Secretary and Treasurer
MEMBERS
Alma Alexander
Martha Moseley
Margaret Brogden
Nina Ruth Rouse
Edith Croom
Lillie Stanley
Mary Cummings
Clara Stroud
Ava Dawson
Addie Mae Summerell
Catherine Hill
Nannie Alice Taylor
Nancy Hinson
Eliza La Rue Walters
Persis Hodges
Margaret Ward
Mabel Jackson
Dannie Mercer Wiggins
Aileen Kilpatrick
Thelma Wilcox
May Belle Lee
Lillian Williams
Christine McDaniel
Grace Wooten
Mary Louise Wooten
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The negotiation between Governor Charles Eden and the Tuscarora Chieftain after the
Massacre of 1716
Bertie County Club
Motto: "Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
Colors: White and Gold
Flower: Daisy
OFFICERS
Ruby Knowles President
Lucile Mitchell Vice-President
Jeanette Sessoms Secretary and Treasurer
Odessa Mitchel Teco-Eeho Reporter
Members
Mabel Baggett
Ruby Knowles
Grace Bowen
Sybil Forehand
Mary Helen Burden
Jeanette Sessoms
Louise Jilcott
Emily Smithwick
Reba Johnson
Flora Tarkenton
Mabel Joyner
Elizabeth Pritchard
Edna Dixon
Ozie Hughes
Whit Evans
Mary Frances Jenkins
Odessa Mitchell
Lucile Mitchell
Elizabeth Perry
Rosebud Lawrence
188
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Wake County Club
Colors: Purple and White Flower: Morning Glory
Motto: "Wake 'em up."
OFFICERS
Meredith Swain President
Evelyn Hutcheson Vice-President
Virginia Ratcliffe Secretary-Treasurer
MEMBERS
Evelyn Broughton
Mae Keith
Ida Cahoon
Elvira Lowery
Estelle Chamblee
Virginia Ratcliffe
Willa Horton
Maud Siler
Grace Hunt
Meredith Swain
Evelyn Hutcheson
Aileen Trippe
Nolie Keith
Evelyn Tillman
Home of Joel Lane, from whom the land for the
State Capitol was bought in 1792
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Robeson County Club
The first inhabitants of Robeson County were the ancestors of our Robeson County
Indians, supposed by some to be the descendants of
White's Lost Colony.
The present governor of North Carolina, Hon. Angus Wilton McLean, is a
native of this county.
Motto: "Boost McLean and Save Robeson"
Colors: Blue and White
Flower: Ragged Robin
OFFICERS
Mable C. Regan President
Mary Belle McMillan Vice-President
Flora Faulk Secretary and Treasurer
MEMBERS
Elizabeth Faircloth
Mary Belle McMillian
Flora Faulk
Janie McPhail
Margie Floyd
Mabel Regan
Nell Floyd
Katherine Smith
Louise Hammer
Geneva Smith
Sarah McKellar
Mary Traynham
Ruth McKellar
Martha Traynham
Gladys McLean
Ann Whitlock
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Gran-Co Club
It seems to us we still hear Judge Leonard Henderson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina, saying to the Granville County girls: "It is well for you to have your horse
hitched before you crack your whip."
Motto: "Wait for the wagon and we'll all take a ride"
Colors: Pink and Green
Flower: Crepe Myrtle
OFFICERS
Ruth Jones President
Lillian Dean Vice-President
Blanche Hutchins Secretary
Helen F. Duke Treasurer
MEMBERS
Ethel Barnette
Lillian Mayes
Jessie Burwell
Mittilulah Pittard
Margarette Campbell
Virginia Pittard
Lillian Dean
Addie Presnell
Helen F. Duke
Flossie Presnell
Julia Hobgood
Jessie Rose
Blanche Hutchins
Ruth Royster
Claire Jones
Annie Mae Sellars
Ruth Jones
Hazel Umstead
Viola Jones
Myrtle Umstead
Mary Grace Lyon
Bessie Wheeler
Martha Williams
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Edgecombe County Club
Motto: "Give Me Liberty" Aim: Independence
Colors: Red and White Flower: Rose
Edgecombe County sent delegates to the first convention at Hillsboro
in 1775.
OFFICERS
Gertrude Mercer President
Pauline Anderson Vice-President
Ethel Davenport Secretary and Treasurer
Annie Satterthwaite Reporter
ROLL
Clara Brown
Clara Godwin
Bessie Coker
Mearle Pearson
Elizabeth Corbitt
Athleen Whitehurst
Margaret Womack
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Margie Cladwell, Dillon
Miss Rebecca Edmonds, Adbeville
Ethel Baskins, Andrews
Evelyn Cladwell, Dillon
Lillian Haselden, Andrews
Katherine Peele, Bennettsville
Mr. R. C. Deal, Greenville
SOUTH CAROLINA CLUB
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Fun Seekers' Club
Slogan: "Pep in Every Step"
Colors: Red and Still Redder
Flower: Tu-lips
OFFICERS
Hope Hendren President
Valeria Sexton Vice-President
Ertie Boyd Warren Secretary
Rowena Wood Treasurer
Effie West Tecoan Representative
MEMBERS
Margaret Butt
Zenobia Lancaster
Lillian Colson
Pauline Lippard
Cynthia Daughtery
Mittilulah Pittard
Marcella Deal
K'Lee Sloaninger
Louise Dula
Janie Rea Smith
Rochelle Jackson
Aileen Trippe
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Red Head Club
Slogan: "Sometimes Blondes and Brunettes Preferred hut Always-'Red Heads Preferred.'"
Mascot: Red-head Woodpecker
MEMBERS
Ruth Harrell
Clara Lee Spruill
Jean Morton
Ellie Ford Hinson
Mary Cummings
Margaret Faison
Nina Ruth Rouse
Ann Kanoy
Nancy Hinson
Mary Holt
Kathleen Faison
Miss Rebecca Edmonds
Christine House
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The Teco Echo
Zilpah Frisbie Editor-in-Chief
Catharine Clark Business Manager
ADVISERS
Miss Mamie Jenkins Editorial
Mr. M. L. Wright Business
REPORTERS
Christine Nichols S. G. A.
Gertrude Mercer Poe
Eugenia Kernodle Lanier
Ethel Spratt Emerson
Lucille Sermons Tecoan
Jean Morton Senior Normal
Ellie Ford Hinson Junior Normal
Kathrine Whitehurst Freshman
Virginia Perkins Sophomore
Rosina Pittman Junior
Beulah Carr Senior
Frances Dixon English Club
Mildred Herring Phi Sigma
Hortense Mozingo Phi Epsilon
Evelyn Hutcheson Y. W. C. A.
Ruth Rhyne Home Economics
Vera Wester Athletic Association
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Delma Smith
Mary Holt
Mary Ellerbe
Margie Cladwell
Martha Stewart
Annie S. Van Dyke
Doralita Larkins
Lillian Walston
Louise Robinson
THE TECO ECHO STAFF
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Heilig, Mitchell, Lloyd, Moore
College Quartette
Teachers College Glee Club and Quartette made their first appear-
ance this fall in a joint recital with the music department of the college.
They added much to the program and showed that they well deserved
recognition, being enthusiastically received by the audience.
The "Musicale" given solely by the Glee Club this year met with
much success. This organization for the past three years has fostered
the interest of the college in the highest type of music.
The twenty selected members attribute much of their success to the
untiring efforts of their efficient director, Miss Gussie Kuykendall.
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Glee Club
OFFICERS
Miss Gussie Kuykendall Director
Mary Gray Moore President
Gladys Parsons Vice-President
Virginia Blount Manager
Jean Morton Reporter
MEMBERS
Jean Morton
Mary Gray Moore
Mary Morton
Lila Glenn Nelson
Gladys Parsons
Asenath Wellons
Virginia Blount
Evelyn Lloyd
Irene Kahn
Fennete Stanfield
Estelle Chamberlee
Ruth Waters
Edna Woodard
Mildred Hester
Maybelle Mitchell
Eugenia Hudson
Beatrice Hicks
Addie Presnell
Mary Smith Heilig
Nancy Whitty
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Entertainment and Advertisement Committee
MEMBERS
Mary Gray Moore
Gladys Parsons
Elise Dunn
Hortense Mozingo
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Holt
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Budget Committee
MEMBERS
Mr. M. L. Wright
Viola Jones, Chairman
Annie Batts
Ethel Spratt
Dorothy Currin Ellis
Miss Ella Wilkes
Annie Laurie Brinkley
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News Bureau
MEMBERS
Gladys Kilpatrick
Gladys Parsons
Dixie Taylor
Hortense Mozingo
Doralita Larkins
Mary Holt
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A VIEW OF ONE OF THE LEADING SlttEtrS AFTER A STORM
IN BEAUFORT,-A TOWN OF MUCH COLONIAL INTEREST
Book Four
Features
"Beautiful hands are those that weave
Bright threads of joy in lives that grieve;
Beautiful feet are those that run
On errands of mercy from sun to sun;
Beautiful lips are those that Speak
To comfort the mourner and hearten the weak;
Beautiful eyes are those that glow
With the light of a spirit pure as snow;
Beautiful faces are those that seem
With a love like God's own love to beam;
Beautiful forms are those that grace
With gentle service the lowliest place;
Beautiful lives are those that bear
For other lives their burden of care;
Beautiful souls are those that show
The spirit of Christ where'er they go."
I. Among Our Beauties.
I. Some Favorite Pictures.
III. Caught by the Camera.
Mary Holt
Most Representative College Girl (Title Page)
One of Our Most Beautiful-Elise Dunn
Another of Our Most Beautiful-Annie Batts
Still Another of Our Most Beautiful-Mary Smith Heilig
And Yet Another of Our Most Beautiful-Helen Newell
Virginia Blount, May Queen
"Candida"-Sara Burton Jenkins, Most Striking
"The Jester"-Carrie Frances Herring, Most Talkative
"Baby Stuart"-Nancy Hinson, Most Original
"Song of the Lark"-Viola Jones, Most Natural
Elizabeth Mayo, Vara Blackman, Mattie Vines Mayo
The Three Graces" The Most Graceful
Gladys Kilpatrick, Mary Gray Moore
"John Alden and Priscilla" Most Entertaining
"Washington at Trenton"-Sara Gurley, Most Athletic
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
ON AND ABOUT THE CAMPUS
CHARACTERS IN "She Stoops to Conquer"
WE COULDN'T DO WITHOUT THEM
SCENES FROM MAY DAY, 1926
IN THE GYMNASIUM
ACCORDING TO THE TIME AND MOOD
SONG HITS
"Paddlin' Madeline Home" "Kiss Me Again"
"Animal Crackers" "In the Middle of the Night" "Baby Face"
"At Peace With the World" "Sleepy Time Girl"
"It's a Man Every Time, It's a Man" "Sentimental Sally"
"Horses" "Sometime"
"That's a Good Girl"
THAT'S ALL THERE AIN'T NO MORE.
EDENTON TEA PARTY
OCTOBER 25, 1774
Book Five
Don't You
Remember-
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-That President Wright Said
In Chapel, February 9, 1927
POWDER YOUR NOSE, ROUGE YOUR CHEEKS, AND APPLY THE LIPSTICKS
WE do not realize sometimes how a little act may set in motion in a human being thoughts
that sometimes take possession of us, and carry us on and on into unexpected fields.
One morning sometime ago, I stepped out into the corridor in front of my office and
saw a rather pretty, attractive young woman, a student in the college, powdering her
nose and putting something on her cheek-rouge, I suppose it was-just an oridinary every
day occurrence. I said, "Where do you go next?" She said, "To English," I said, "Well,
I hope you have a good lesson," or some other such remark, and went back in to my office and
began to think. The girl was doing something that was perfectly all right as we do today, and
I approved of what she was doing. She wanted to look well when she went to class, and I think
that is perfectly proper. I have no complain to make with what she was doing. I rather com-
mend her for it.
But I got to thinking about education, and these are the thoughts that came to me and that I
want to give you this morning. You know a lot of folks are accused of "sticking their nose"
into all kinds of things. That is, in one sense, what you are doing here. You are looking into
new fields. You are getting acquainted with new thoughts and new ideas. You are gathering
informationin. You are getting knowledge such as you have never had before. It is a good thing
to do, but keep your nose in inquisitiveness well powdered, so that when you stick it into some-
thing, it will come out looking all right, and you won't go around the world with people saying,
"She just sticks her nose into everything." People do not object to having you make inquiries
and they do not mind giving you information, if you ask for it in an attractive way. Keep your
inquisitive nose well powdered so the world will be glad to give you the information you want,
so the world will be pleased to help you. We can get much more out of the world if we go at
it in the right way. I am going to ask you to keep your inquisitive nose well powdered.
Rouge your cheeks. Your college education will cause you to know much more than many of
your friends and neighbors know. When you go back home do not appear to have too much
"cheek." Do you know that that very thing puts a lot of college people to a tremendous dis-
advantage? It is a real handicap. I have known boys and girls to go back home and feel that
father or mother does not know, and let it be known that they feel that way. I have known
young people to go out from college so "stuck up" that what they had acquired in college was for
the time being a handicap. As William Jennings Bryan said in substance on one occasion, it is
all right for a boy to have the "big head." Let him go out into the world with a big head,
expecting to do a lot of big things in the world. The world will soon whittle his head down to
its right size. If he doesn't have big ideas, the world will never make his head any larger than
he thinks it is. Rouge your cheeks so that the knowledge you get will be of service to you,
and not cause offence to others. That is the thought that came to me. Get all the knowledge
you can. Acquire every piece of useful information you may, and use it in such a way that it
will be to your advantage and a help to other people who have not had so good an opportunity as
you have had. There goes with every opportunity a tremendous responsibility, and a part of the
responsibility is being able to use to advantage the things that you acquired when you had your
opportunity. Do it in an attractive way. Make your mental life attractive. Make it helpful.
Rouge your mental cheek so that people will not say that you have too much "cheek."
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Then the other thought that came to me was-apply the lipstick. "Make the words of your
mouth as well as the meditations of your heart acceptable in the sight of God" and acceptable in
the sight of human beings. Dress up your thoughts in well chosen language. I am giving you
that advice because I have failed to do that all through my life. No one ever gave me that
thought until I finally stumbled upon it myself. I went out from college convinced that the
big thing was to think out something clearly and then bring it to pass, but I did not realize that
the best way to bring it to pass is to study how to present it. Dr. Alderman, President of the
University of Virginia, stands out in America as one of America's truly great men, and justly so.
One of the big things in his life is that he studies how to present the thoughts that come to him.
I heard him say on one occasion that a man has no right to make a public address unless he has
taken time to word his thoughts carefully. He was right about it. You are acquiring information.
You are gathering knowledge here. In a large measure the usefulness of what you gather
depends upon how you apply the lipstick in your thought life, the way you word your thoughts.
The way you say what you think is almost as important as what you think. Apply the lipstick
to your lips so that the utterances of your lips will be attractive.
I wonder if these thoughts will help you. I hope they will. Powder your nose, rouge your
cheeks, and apply the lipstick to all of your thought life. And that is what the girl set up in
my mind when I stepped out into the corridor that morning.
-That These Were Here
James Speed, Lecturer October 18
Chicago Concert Company October 21
Cleveland Symphonic Quartet November 4
University Glee Club November 16
Miss Daphne Carraway-Story Teller November 18
Rhonda Singers December 2
Senior Play, "She Stoops to Conquer" December 10
Criterion Male Quartet January 10
Zimmer Harp Trio January 17
Cherniavsky Trio February 7
University Band February 15
Captain Kilroy Harris, Lecturer February 17
Junior Play, "The Intimate Strangers" February 25
De Jen Company March 5
Carveth Wells, Lecturer May 5
Senior Normal Play May 13
Duke University Glee Club May 18
State College Glee Club April 23
Carolina Playmakers May 30
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That the Perfect Senior Has-
Ruth McGowan's EYES Lena Redfern's HAIR
Beulah Carr's CHIN Mary Holt's MOUTH
Ella Wheeler Tucker's NECK Nora Lee Gaddy's TEETH
Zilpah Frisbie's ARMS Effie West's HANDS
Gladys Kilpatrick's FIGURE
Gertrude Mercer's LEGS
Gladys Arnold's FEET
ADD TO ALL THIS THE
Vivacity of Hortense Mozingo
Loquacity of Virginia Blount
Intellectuality of Gladys Parsons
Musical Talent of Laura Sloan
Dignity of Mary Gray Moore
Executive Skill of Viola Jones
Teaching Ability of Pauline Martin
And Athletic Prowess of Louise Grissom
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Jokes
An example of "local colour": At a con-
cert by three blind musicians in Dark Ridge,
North Carolina, Miss Bessie Willis won the
beauty prize.
Miss Alexander was drilling her students
in Physical Education. She gave the follow-
ing directions:
"I want every girl to lie on her back, put
her legs in the air, and move them as if she
were riding a bicycle. Now begin!"
After a short effort Inez VanDyke stopped.
"Why have you stopped?" asked Miss
Alexander.
"If you please, ma'am," was the reply, "I
was only coasting."
Aunt Fannie (in the kitchen): "Looka
here, now Miss Keel, why ain't yuh done
got marr'd ? Don't you know yuh can't neber
go to heben if yuh ain't neber got marr'd?"
Miss Keel: "Why, no, Aunt Fannie, I didn't
know that! What do you think I better do
about it?"
Aunt Fannie: "Des pray erbout it, Miss
Keel, des pray erbout it. An' de man sho
will come-he show will."
Miss Wilkes (when Miss Keel told her of
Aunt Fannie's advice): "Let's hold union
services."
Tony (the head cook, to Mrs. Jeter in daily
conference about the menu), bowing profound-
ly, asks, "What disposition shall I make of
the bones today, Madam, what disposition
shall I make of the bones?"
Mary Gray (to Glee Club members):
"Take your guest to the three-story dormitory
and bid him good-bye there, and do not go
any where else." (Turning to Miss Kuy-
kendall): "Now, Miss Kuykendall, you take
yours to the teachers' dormitory and bid him
good-bye there."
Miss Kuykendall: "I'll take him there, but
I'm not so sure I'm going to tell him good-bye
there!"
Lib Smith (arguing with local confec-
tioner): "The idea do charging 69 cents a
pound for those dates. You should have seen
the number of dates a man gave me for 35
cents while I was in Milwaukee."
On the morning before the initiation all the
college girls were thrilled through and
through, and thought every one else was
as thrilled over the societies as they were.
Margaret (to the maid): "Aunt Clo, you're
a Poe, too, aren't you?"
Aunt Clo: "Why, yes, Honey, we all is po'
and always has been since I was born'd."
Tuning in on a conversation between two
Negro girls at laundry-
"Sarah Jane, I thought you was fired last
week."
Sarah Jane: "Well, it's this way. Mr.
Wright sent me a letter. On the inside it
said, 'You is fired.' On the outside it said,
"Return after five days to M. L. Wright.' So
I goes on a little vacation for five days and
comes back. So here I is."
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Elsie had just returned from the postoffice.
Dashing into the room she began, "Oh, Lu-
cile, I saw a dime coming from the post-
office."
Lucile (busily occupied in writing a letter,
calmly put in): "Did it have any mail?"
Evelyn: "I want a pencil."
Mildred: "Hard or soft?"
Evelyn: "Oh, soft of course. I'm writing
a love letter to Fletcher."
Jane: "Mary, you are just like a part of
a tree."
Mary: "What part, pray?"
Janie: "Oh, the sap, nut."
Lillian Haselden was fussing about the
notes she had to take while on Mr. Flanna-
gan's class, and this is what she said: "I
bet I'll be taking notes at my funeral!"
Kate Brett, looking very solemn, corrected
Lillian's statement by saying, "No you won't;
you'll be standing a test."
Miss Graham: "Kindly report at 9:00 A. M.
for vour make-up exam."
Ada Allen: "Shall I bring along my lip-
stick ?"
Miss Wahl: "I want you never to use the
word 'very' in this class."
Helen: "Very well."
Senior (to Freshman) : "Your dress is just
simply beautiful. Did you get it here?"
Freshman: "Thanks. It came from Win-
terville."
Senior: "I didn't know anything so pretty
could come from that town."
Freshman (very, very innocently): "Oh,
that is where I'm from."
All the numbers on the program of the con-
cert that evening were classical. Julia, who
could not interpret music very well, was
rather bored by the program.
After returning to her room, she exclaimed
to her roommate, "Oh, I'm so tired of music,
I wish we could have the Wake Forest Glee
Club here one night."
Whit and Dot were seated opposite each
other at the table studying, when Katy, the
maid, entered, bringing a note for Whit.
"Which one of y'all is White," she asked,
carefully studying the address.
"Both of us," responded Whit.
"Well," Katy said, "here's a note for y'all."
Miss Wilson (to student during Bilogy
class): "How does a goose stand?"
Student: "I don't know."
Miss Wilson: "Suppose you get out and try."
Mary Smith: "I spent last evening with
the one I love best in the world."
Cora Lee: "Don't you ever get tired of
being alone?"
One Friday afternoon Mary was walking
slowly up town. Myrtle and Eloise came
hurriedly by. Myrtle exclaimed, "For good-
ness sake, Mary, at that speed you will never
get to 'Five Points.'"
Mary (with a dignified air) replied: "Why
should I? Miss Alexander told me this
morning that I needed only two more points
to get my letters."
There were visitors in the dining room of
the college, and one of the new girls felt
that she should contribute something to the
conversation. "We've had chicken two times
this week," she said, politely.
"Chicken twice? What luxury!" exclaimed
one of the visitors, smiling.
"Oh, no. It was the same chickens-hash
first and then soup," was the reply.
Ifs
If Pauline Anderson is Long, is Evelyn Short?
If Gladys is Tactful, is Virginia Blount?
If Georgia and Alabama are South, why is Effie West?
If Katie is Maid, is Mary Louise Butler?
If Julia is a Lady, is Lois a Mann?
If Eliza is a Laughing House, is Carrie Lee a Peele?
If Teeney is a Dyke, is Annie Laurie a Cannon?
If Sallie is Mac's Queen, is Lucy King?
If Evelyn Hutcheson likes goings does Mary like Cummings?
If Mary Lee Hooks does Gladys Tingle?
If Maude is a Beyette is Sarah a Gurley?
If Elise is Dunn, why can't Masai Fry?
If Christine is Nichols, what is Louanna Overcash?
If the Ho-cutt Mary, would the Professor Holler?
If Virginia should Reel, would Aileen Trippe?
If Beulah is a Carr, is Hilda a Credle?
If Annie Batts does Janie Bett Pierce?
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Ina: "Oh, I'm so thrilled I'm to have a
date with a gentleman tonight."
Nancy: "Gentleman, nothing! He's just
a boy from State College."
Mr. Haynes (to a Freshman trying to
fill a card out): "When were you born?"
No response.
Mr. Haynes: "Did you hear me? When is
your birthday?"
Freshman (sullenly): "What do you care?
You are not going to give me no present, are you?"
Teeny: "Meet me at the Staff room at 7:30 tonight."
Nancy: "All right, what time will you be there?"
Student, giving an oral report on a recent
bill introduced in the State Legislature: "and
it requires automobiles and every vehicle, in-
cluding horses, to carry a light on the rear end."
Mrs. Heter (to new baker): "Hm! So you
want a job! Do you ever tell lies?"
Baker: "No, but I'd be willing to learn."
Seven Wonders of Teacher's College
1. Mr. Fornes's patience in mending our plank walks.
2. How Mr. Haynes keeps his hair in place so well.
3. Mr. Flanagan.
4. How Carrie Frances beat Hortense in the Loquacity race.
5. Helen Minton's cherry lips.
6. Ellie Ford's permanent wave.
7. Why all the boys love Beatrice Hicks.
What Would This Place Be Without
1. Board walks?
2. May Belle Lee's solemnity?
3. Bertie Mae Chenault and Winifred
Rouse's flowing tresses?
4. Fifth street?
5. Denton's College Store?
6. Miller's Ten Cent Store?
7. Miss Moore?
8. Practice teaching?
9. ME and YOU?
A problem: "Are they going to wear eve-
ning dresses tonight, or can I wear my own
clothes?"
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We Thank You!
"'Tis true, 'tis trite, and
pity'tis, 'tis' trite"
Nevertheless we do desire "to acknowledge gratefully" the services
of those who have made it possible for us to publish THE TECOAN.
The printers have taken a wholehearted interest in our book. We
are convinced that "Benson Service Conquers Distance." The photo-
graphers, especially Mrs. Siddell and Mr. Dunbar, have taken personal
interest in the photographic work. To these we feel greatly indebted.
The advertisers and the Chambers of Commerce have helped us by
their backing and furnishing us historical data. We sincerely appreciate
their support.
Our campus friends have given us their helpful assistance and co-op-
eration. We heartily thank them.
Miss Bonnerwitz and Mr. Slay of the faculty have given us helpful
advice in regard to the artistic make-up and financial management or
the annual.
Others have helped now and then, in this way or that; but Miss
Hooper, editorial adviser, has helped us constantly and in every way.
Hers was the difficult task of judging plans, assembling material, and
encouraging the workers. Her sympathy, industry, and understanding
deserve more than our simple "We thank you," but who can say more
than that?
The 1927 Tecoax Staff.
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My Annual and I Grow Old
At close of day the sunset's found me;
And shadows steal around me,
A-musing now in the firelight blaze
On those dear friends of other days,
As I backward look.
My hair is grey, my eyes are blurred,
Yet something keeps my mem'ry stirred;
I think today of other years,
And smiles creep out in spite of tears,
And I close the book.
The thousandth time I've looked it o'er,
But each time means a little more;
Though college days have long been gone,
With me they still live on and on,
Till my days are closing.
The book slips softly from my hands,
As classmates left for other lands;
My daughter, tall, and strong, and fair,
Steals up behind my old armchair.
And finds me dozing.
-Zilpah Frisbie, '27.
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Our Silk Hosiery is the best ob-
tainable. Extra good heavy
silk hose, triple seam
full fashioned
All Colors, $1.49
Corner Dickerson Avenue
and Greene Street
ED. S. WILLIAMS
UNDERTAKING AND
MUSIC CO.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS
Pianos and Player Pianos
victrolas and Records
Picture Frames and
Novelties
Greenville, N. C.
Visit WHITES THEATER
Only the best in Pictures and
Road Show Attractions
Special Features on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Matinee Daily
R. E. CORBETT, JR.
Local Manager
JOHN FLANAGAN BUGGY CO.
AUTHORIZED FORD DEALERS
Sales and Service
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Cash or Credit
Tecoan 1927
EAST CAROLINA TEACHERS COLLEGE
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Courses Offered
I. A TWO-YEAR NORMAL COURSE
II. A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE COURSE
III. SPECIAL COURSES FOR THE PREPARATION OF
ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS AND SUPERVISORS
The two-year normal course leads to a diploma which entitles the
holder to a Primary or Grammar Grade Certificate Class B. The
four-year college course leads to the A.B. degree, which entitles the
holder to a Primary, Grammar Grade, or High School Teachers' Cer-
tificate Class A. All work given in these courses will count toward
graduation from this institution.
Special courses are offered with the purpose of preparing High School
teachers of English, History, Science, Biology, Mathematics, Geogra-
phy, Latin, French and Home Economics.
For further information address
ROBT. H. WRIGHT. President
Tecoan 1927
CAROLINA'S LARGEST PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO
SIDDELL STUDIO
RALEIGH, N. C.
Official Photographer for the Tecoan
Mr. Slay: "So you're failing in your exam-
ination again? What is your excuse this time?"
Dumb Dora: "Well, sir. What else did you
expect? They had the same silly questions."
Doctor to Mary Cummings (who had fallen
in the snow): "I'll sew that wound in your
head for ten dollars."
Mary: "Oh, Doc, I don't want any em-
broidery or hemstitching; just plain sewing."
Pracite Teacher; "Have any of you ever
seen an elephant skin?"
Small boy; "Please, teacher, I have."
Practice Teacher: "And where did you see it?"
Small boy: "On the elephant."
Annie Laurie B.: "Hand me that dummy."
Ina B.: "Are you talking to me?"
"Are Elise and Julia self-centered?"
"Self-centered? Why, they think that 'Hail,
Hail, the Gang's All Here' is a duet."
"That's a new one on me," said Margy as
she scratched her head.
The Psychological Spot
'Tis done beneath the mistletoe,
'Tis done "beneath the rose,"
But the proper place to kiss, you know,
Is just beneath the nose.
-Boston Transcript.
Tecoan 1927
Quinn-Miller & Co.
EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME
Cash ord Credit
Phone No. 366
L. A. Stroud, Manager
Pitt Count's Leading Furniture and
Stove Dealers
NORFOLK SHOE REPAIRING CO.
Bring Your Shoes to Be
Repaired
All Work Guaranteed
Greenville, N. C.
323 Evans Street
The Proctor Hotel
Cater Especially to College Stu-
dents and Their Families
Call Us at 393 for Any Service We
May Be Able to Render
at Any Time
W. DAVID TURNER, Manager
Greenville, N. C.
The Daily Reflector
ESTABLISHED 1882
The Only Daily Newspaper
in Pitt County
Covers Eastern Carolina's Richest
Trade Center Like a Blanket
Your Best Advertising Medium
Rates on Request
Phone 56
WILLARDS
FANCY GROCERIES
Food of Superior Excellence
23-Phones-92
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Patronize Our Advertisers
It is better to keep your mouth shut and be
thought a fool than to open it and remove
all doubt.
Annie (excitedly): "There's a little black
spider crawling on the ceiling."
Maria, who was reading, answered without
raising her eyes from her book: "Step on
it and let me alone."
Tecoan 1927
CULLINS
Cleaners and Dyers
Phone 27
GREENVILLE, N. C.
LOWES
Exclusive Millinery
GREENVILLE, N. C.
WOLFS
QUICK LUNCH
Specialty on
HOT DOGS
CHIC
Naturalness and Correctness Are the
Characteristics of
A VANITY BOXE
NEW NESTLE CIRSULINE
PERMANENT WAVE
Make your Application Now
THAT VANITY BOXE
Phone 437
DR. M. B. MASSEY
DENTIST
200-202 National Bank Building
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Dr. B. McK. Johnson
Dentist
National Bank Building
Phone 391
Greenville, N. C.
MRS. R. W. FLEMING
HEMSTITCHING
P. O. Box 418 Phone 136
Evans Street
GREENVILLE, N. C.
GREENVILLE
FLORAL CO.
"Say It With Flowers"
WEDDING BOUQUETS, CORSAGES
FUNERAL DESIGNS
NURSERY STOCK AND LAND-
SCAPE SERVICE
Phone 443-W
Tecoan 1927
Have All Your Dresses Dry
Cleaned by Experienced
Cleaners
Fancy Material Handled
With Care
RAINBOW CLEANERS
Phone 619
PITT DRUG CO.
"We Sell Everything Found in
a First-Class Drug
Store"
Greenville, N. C.
Special Attention to Ladies' Shoes
All Kinds of Wood Heels Recovered
MAULTSBY SHOE SHOP
High Class Shoe Repairing
While you wait
Munford's New Building
on Five Points
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Dr. Alfred M. Schultz
Dentist
400 National Bank Building
GREENVILLE, N. C.
A. G. WALTERS
Jeweler and Optician
"Everything in First-Class Jewelry"
SEE OUR LINE
GREENVILLE. N. C.
ELECTRIC SERVICE
AND SUPPLY CO.
Anything Electrical
RADIOS
We Appreciate Your Business
Phone 605
Dickerson Avenue
Doralita: "Loan me a ten-dollar William."
Lib: "Why William,' Doralita?"
Doralita: "I'm not familiar enough with it
to call it a 'Bill."'
Cecile: "Linda, when do you intend to graduate?"
Linda: "Every year."
Louise (bragging to Mary about the ath-
letic ability of her brother): "Why, that
brother of mine has a gold medal for running
ten miles, one for swimming, an' a silver
cup for golf, an' a gold cup for boxing."
Mary: "Well, it certainly isn't hereditary,
I can tell by you."
Louise: "Hm - ah, he runs a pawnshop."
Tecoan 1927
NATIONAL BANK OF GREENVILLE
Greenville, N. C.
The Big Bank on Five Points
RESOURCES $1,774,717.57
NINETY PER CENT
This is the high average, yet 90 per cent of the business of this
country is done by check
We want you to join the majority by opening an account
with this bank
James L. Little, President
F. G. James, Vice-President
F. J. Forbes, Cashier
Chas. James, Assistant Cashier
J. G. LAUTARES
CANDY PALACE
The Every-Day Dessert
Our pure Ice Cream and Home-made Candy are more than a dessert.
Their food value exceeds that of most table foods. Lautaers' Ice
Cream has passed the State Food Inspection at Raleigh and
has proved to be a pure cream and a rich cream
Try Our Ice Cream in Your Home
Be Sure to Ask For
LAUTARES ICE CREAM
Wholesale and Retail
