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Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.

My Mother Was a Beckwith Girl

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36085
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Abstract:
Alluding to an article in an earlier edition about Kate Beckwith, the author discusses his mother who he believed was influenced by East Carolina Teachers Training School’s first principal. In reference to his mother’s teaching career, he noted North Carolina’s contribution to the well-known schoolteacher stereotype. According to him, female teachers could not be married.