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Interview (1940-1999) with ECC graduate, 1962, from Havelock, NC who became an English teacher and school counselor at Havelock schools, including Havelock High School, 1968-1995, pertaining to years at ECC, teaching, memberships in the Winterville Historical Society and Pitt County Historical Society. Class assignment for Professor Lu Ann Jones' Fall 1999 History 5960 Class, submitted 10/25/1999. 1 cassette. 1.0 hr. Interviewer: Aaron Olson. Interview date: 10/25/1999. Typed interview log and transcript by interviewer available. 8 p. Rec'd 10/28/2003.

Interview (ca. 1920-2002) with East Carolina Teachers College student from Winterville and Rountree NC, who left school after one year to serve in the Army during World War II in Italy, Yugoslavia and Kosovo, and who spent most of his career working in an automobile parts store on Cotanche Road, Greenville, N.C. Class assignment for Professor Lu Ann Jones' Fall 2002 History 5960 Class, submitted 11/24/2002. Interviewer: Rose Kiefer. Interview date: 10/31/2002.

Interview (1942-1998) with African-American teacher who graduated from St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, NC, who taught for thirty-one years in the Wilson County, NC schools and currently teaches at James Baxter Hunt High School. Class assignment for Professor Lu Ann Jones' Fall 1998 History 5960 Class, submitted 10/27/1998. 1 cassette. 1.0 hr. Interviewer: Damika L. Hall. Interview date: 10/16/1998. Typed interview log and transcript by interviewer available. 10 p. Rec'd. 10/28/2003

Mrs. Booth (1916-2004), the owner of the Booth Guest House in Manteo, N.C., discusses her childhood memories, family life and history on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and in Norfolk, Virginia. She also talks about her father, Alpheus W. Drinkwater, the telegrapher who relayed the news of the successful first airplane flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903.

Captain Stuart Hotchkiss describes his experiences as a young man in yachting and international yacht racing. Having been a Naval ROTC student at Yale University, Hotchkiss received a US Naval Reserve commission and volunteered for active duty in April 1941. His wartime experience in command of the schooner BOWDOIN while conducting hydrographic studies along the coast of Greenland, in command of the COOLBAUGH (DE 217) and his final wartime command of the DD 939 (former Z-39) are all discussed as is his postwar time in command of the USS GRIDLEY (DD 380).