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The First Faculty Arrives

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36075
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Mentioned were the ten teachers hired by the first president of what was East Carolina Teachers’ Training School. In the accompanied photo were those with past and present buildings at ECU named for them: William H. Ragsdale, Maria D. Graham, Mamie E. Jenkins, Herbert E. Austin, Sallie Joyner Davis, and Claude W. Wilson. The other four featured in the reprinted first photo included Kate W. Lewis, Birdie McKinney, Jennie M. Ogden, and Fannie Bishop.