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Title:	Records of John Decatur Messick's Tenure as President of East Carolina Teachers College And East Carolina College
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Repository:	East Carolina University Archives
Language:	English
Abstract:	The collection includes papers and publications produced or related to the administration of John Decatur Messick. Materials include biographical records, correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, administrative records, and other miscellaneous items.
Extent:	7.75 Linear feet, 15 record cartons, 1 small record carton,

Description

The Records of John Decatur Messick's Teunure as President of East Carolina Teacher College and East Carolina College include biographical materials, correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, administrative records, and other miscellaneous materials. The records cover the years of Messick's Tenure from 1947 to 1959, but also include materials up until Messick's death in 1993.

Biographical / Historical Note

John Decatur Messick was born the sixth of nine children to Jesse McCagie Messick and Mary Zion Flowers Messick on November 9, 1897 in South Creek, NC in Beaufort County. After completing his basic schooling in South Creek, Messick studied at Falcon Academy. Messick attended King's Business College in Raleigh before entering Elon College, where he graduated in 1922.
Messick married Magdalene Elizabeth Robinson of Washington, DC. They had two daughters Helen Margaret and Mary Rosalyn and two sons, Norval Robinson and John Albert.
After graduating from Elon, Messick pursued a career in education. He spent the next few years working in North Carolina public schools. He worked as principal of South River School in Wade, NC from 1922-1926, principal in Trenton, NC from 1926-1929, and Superintindent in Spencer, NC from 1929-1935. Meanwhile, Messick continued his education by doing graduate work during the summers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1922-1929. Messick recieved his Ph.D. in administration and supervision of schools from New York University in 1934.
After obtaining his Ph.D., Messick decided to shift his career to college education, beginning with a small job as a summer session professor at the Teachers College in Asheville, NC in 1934-1935. In 1935, Messick accepted his first big job at a college as the Dean of Men, Instruction and Administration at Elon College, a post which he held until 1944. In 1944, Messick left North Carolina to take a job as Dean of Instruction and Administrative Assistant to the President at State Teachers College in Montclair, NJ.
In 1947, ECTC President Dennis H. Cooke resigned, leaving the Board of Trustees with the task of finding a new president. The Board invited Messick, who accepted and became the fifth President of East Carolina Teachers College. Messick began his presidency with a campaign to drop the word Teachers from the school's name to reflect his new expanded mission for the college. The General Assembly approved the name change to East Carolina College in 1951. A highly qualified and energetic leader, Messick presided over the expansion of the campus, enrollment, faculty, and curriculum during his tenure. By the time of Messick's resignation in 1959, ECC had become the third largest campus in North Carolina. Two of Messick's most important accomplishments include challenging the state government's unequal funding of the Consolidated University over the teacher's colleges and fighting for the establishment of a Nursing School.
After his resignation as President of ECC, Messick took a job as a grants administrator with HEW in Washington DC and later became Dean of Administration at a teachers college in Vermont. He also served as vice-president of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. Messick and his wife retired to Wilmington, NC where they lived until he died on October 3, 1993.

Subject Headings
Personal/Family Names
- Messick, John Decatur, 1897-
Corporate Names
Topical Terms
- Education, Higher--North Carolina--History
- College presidents--North Carolina--Greenville

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Portions of this collection are restricted. Contact the University Archivist for details. Restricted Box 12 Folder 18.
Copyright Notice
Property rights and copyright reside with East Carolina University. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact the University Archivist.
Preferred Citation
[Item Description and date]. Records of John Decatur Messick's Tenure as President of East Carolina Teachers College And East Caroina College. UA02-05. University Archives, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

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Container List

Series 1 Personal Papers, Bulk, 1947-1959

Box 1 Folder 1 Biographical Information, 1958-1959

Box 1 Folder 2 Birthday Cards,Telegrams, and Postcards, 1950-1959

Box 1 Folder 3 Events Attended by Messick, Programs, 1948-1955

Box 1 Folder 4 Events Attended by Messick, Programs, 1956-1958

Box 1 Folder 5 Family Correspondence, 1947, 1952

Box 1 Folder 6 Griffith, Andy, Signed Letter to Dr. Messick, n.d.

Box 1 Folder 7 High School Commencement Programs, with Messick as speaker, 1949, 1951, 1959

Box 1 Folder 8 Inauguration Program, Messick as President of ECTC, 1948

Box 1 Folder 9 Membership Certificates, 1949-1959, 1964, 1983-1984

Box 1 Folder 10 Messick, John D., Handwritten Letter Reflecting on his Tenure as President, 1960

Box 1 Folder 11 Messick, John D., at State Teachers College, Lyndon Center, Vermont, 1961

Box 1 Folder 12 News Articles, about Messick's activities, 1951, 1953-1954

Box 1 Folder 13 Newpaper Articles, 1947, 1956, 1959-1960, 1966

Box 1 Folder 14 Personal Correspondence, 1944, 1946-1947, 1950, 1952-1953, 1957-1959

Box 1 Folder 15 Photocopied Newspaper Articles about Messick, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1957-1958, 1965, 1968, 1981-1982, 1993

Box 1 Folder 16 Portrait of Messick, correspondence concerning, 1952

Box 1 Folder 17 Publication of Messick's book "School Boards, Their Powers and Discretions", correspondence concerning, 1947

Box 1 Folder 18 Report from East Carolina College, a letter from the president, 1956

Box 1 Folder 19 Resignation Correspondence, October 22, 1959 - October 26, 1959

Box 1 Folder 20 Resignation Correspondence, October 27, 1959 - December 28, 1959

Box 1 Folder 21 Speech on WNCT, 1954

Box 1 Folder 22 Stock Letter to Friends, 1947

Box 1 Folder 23 To My Successor as President, 1959

Box 1 Folder 24 Personal Correspondence, Post-Presidency, 1977-1978, 1982-1990, 1994

Series 2 State Correspondence, 1947-1959

Box 2 Folder 1a Atomic Energy Advisory Committee, 1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 1b Burlington Industries Foundation, 1955, 1958

Box 2 Folder 1b Christian Science Committee on Publication for North Carolina, 1959

Box 2 Folder 2 Copeland, J. William, State Senator, 1959

Box 2 Folder 3 Erwin, Clyde A., Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1950-1953

Box 2 Folder 4 Eure, Thad, NC Secretary of State, 1954, 1957

Box 2 Folder 5 Greensboro Daily News, Editor H. W. Kendall, 1950-1959

Box 2 Folder 6 Gregory, Carson, NC House of Representatives, Harnett County, 1959

Box 2 Folder 7 Hewlett, Addison, NC House of Representatives, 1959

Box 2 Folder 8 Hodges, Luther, Governor of North Carolina, 1952-1956

Box 2 Folder 9 Hodges, Luther, Governor of North Carolina, 1957-1959

Box 2 Folder 10 Horne, Josh, Rocky Mount Telegram, 1953, 1956-1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 11 Humber, Robert Lee, State Senator, 1949-1951, 1959

Box 2 Folder 12 Jones, Dr. Paul E., State Senator, 1953, 1957

Box 2 Folder 13 Jones, Walter, NC House of Representatives, 1959

Box 2 Folder 14 Kirkman, O. Arthur, State Senator, 1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 14b McMullan, Harry, NC Attorney General, 1949, 1953

Box 2 Folder 15 The News and Observer - The Raleigh Times, 1947-1948, 1950, 1955-1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 16 North Carolina Board of Higher Education, 1956-1958

Box 2 Folder 17a North Carolina Budget Bureau, 1947-1952

Box 2 Folder 17b North Carolina Budget Bureau, 1953-1956

Box 2 Folder 17c North Carolina Budget Bureau, 1957-1959

Box 2 Folder 18a North Carolina Citizens Committee For Better Schools, 1957

Box 2 Folder 18b North Carolina Committee on Appropriations, University Funding Conflict, 1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 19 North Carolina Council on Economic Education, 1954

Box 2 Folder 20a North Carolina Department of Administration, 1957-1959

Box 2 Folder 20b North Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1950-1951

Box 2 Folder 21 North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, 1952-1953, 1956-1958

Box 2 Folder 22 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 1948-1953, 1955, 1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 23 North Carolina Education Association, 1948-1949, 1952-1954, 1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 24 North Carolina Insurance Department, 1954

Box 2 Folder 25 North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 1955, 1957-1959

Box 2 Folder 26 North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults, 1953, 1955-1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 27 North Carolina State Board of Health, 1952-1954

Box 2 Folder 28 North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958

Box 2 Folder 29 Owens, Edward L., State Senator, 1957

Box 2 Folder 30 Rodman, William B., NC Attorney General, 1953-1955

Box 2 Folder 31 Scott, W. Kerr, Governor of North Carolina, 1948-1949, 1952, 1954, 1956

Box 2 Folder 32 State Highway Commission, 1951-1952, 1954, 1956-1957

Box 2 Folder 33 State of North Carolina Personnel Department, 1956-1959

Box 2 Folder 34 State School Boards Association, 1947-1949, 1956

Box 2 Folder 35 State Treasurers, Charles M. Johnson and Edwin Gill, 1947, 1958

Box 2 Folder 36 Umstead, William B., Governor of North Carolina and U.S. Senator, 1948, 1951-1954

Box 2 Folder 37 Winston-Salem Journal, 1957, 1959

Box 2 Folder 38 Wooten, Frank M., Jr., NC House of Representatives, 1959

Box 2 Folder 39 Worthington, Sam O., NC House of Representatives, 1955

Series 3 National Correspondence, 1947-1959

Box 3 Folder 1 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Accrediting Committee, 1949-1951

Box 3 Folder 2 American Association of University Women, 1953

Box 3 Folder 2b Bonner, Herbert C., U.S. House of Representatives, 1951-1952

Box 3 Folder 2c Bostian, Ruth, Former East Carolina Student, handicapped in an accident, 1950, 1959-1960

Box 3 Folder 3 Chicago Tribune, Editor William D. Maxwell, 1957

Box 3 Folder 4 Comptroller General of the United States, 1953

Box 3 Folder 5 Department of Defense Reserve Award, 1957

Box 3 Folder 6 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1954-1959

Box 3 Folder 7 Ervin, Sam J., U.S. Senator, 1954-1959

Box 3 Folder 8 Federal Security Agency Office of Education, 1951-1952

Box 3 Folder 9 Graham, Frank P., U.S. Senator, President of UNC, 1948-1951

Box 3 Folder 10 Hickey, Thomas F., Lieutenant General, 1958

Box 3 Folder 11 Housing and Home Finance Agency, College Housing Loan Program, 1950-1951, 1955

Box 3 Folder 12 Housing and Home Finance Agency, Loan Interest Rates, 1956

Box 3 Folder 13 Housing and Home Finance Agency, Construction Bids, 1957

Box 3 Folder 14 Housing and Home Finance Agency, January - July 1958

Box 3 Folder 15 Housing and Home Finance Agency, August - October 1958

Box 3 Folder 16 Housing and Home Finance Agency, November-December 1958

Box 3 Folder 17 Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1959

Box 3 Folder 18 Jordan, B. Everett, U.S. Senator, 1958-1959

Box 3 Folder 19 Judd, Walter H., U.S. House of Representatives, 1952

Box 3 Folder 20 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, 1959

Box 3 Folder 21 National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards, 1951

Box 3 Folder 22 National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, 1954

Box 3 Folder 23 National Defense Student Loan Fund, 1958-1959

Box 3 Folder 24 National School Boards Association, 1948-1949

Box 3 Folder 25 National Science Foundation, 1958-1959

Box 3 Folder 26 National Society of College Teachers of Education, 1955

Box 3 Folder 27 Oglesby, Henry, U.S. House of Representatives, 1950-1951, 1953

Box 3 Folder 28 Time Magazine, correspondence with, 1947, 1953, 1957

Box 3 Folder 29 United States Department of Agriculture, 1953

Box 3 Folder 30 United States Information Agency, 1955-1957

Box 3 Folder 31 United States Information Agency, 1958-1959

Box 3 Folder 32 United States Information Agency Publications - Communist Media Developments, Voices of America, 13th Report to Congress, 1957-1959

Box 3 Folder 33 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1959

Series 4 College Correspondence, 1947-1959

Box 4 Folder 1 Ashbaugh, E.J., Dean of School of Education, Miami University, 1950

Box 4 Folder 2 Bostian, Carey H., Chancellor of North Carolina State College, 1953-1954, 1956, 1958-1959

Box 4 Folder 3 Browne, Kenneth A., Dean of Instruction, Maryland State College, 1954

Box 4 Folder 4 Caldwell, John T., President fo University of Arkansas, 1959

Box 4 Folder 5 Carr, James F., Placement and Financial Aids, Florida State University, 1958

Box 4 Folder 6 Edens, A. Hollis, President of Duke University, 1955

Box 4 Folder 7 Elon College, 1947

Box 4 Folder 8 Friday, William C. (Bill), President of UNC, 1957-1959

Box 4 Folder 9 George Peabody College, 1952-1953, 1955, 1957

Box 4 Folder 10 Gray, Gordon, President of UNC, 1950-1955

Box 4 Folder 11 Greene, Lt. William M. A., United States Naval Academy, 1954

Box 4 Folder 12 Gross, Paul, Dean of Graduate School, Duke University, 1951

Box 4 Folder 13 Hager, Walter E., President of Wilson Teachers College, Washington D.C., 1954

Box 4 Folder 14 High Point College, 1958

Box 4 Folder 15 Hornbake, R. Lee, Dean of the Faculty, University of Maryland College Park, 1959

Box 4 Folder 16 House, Robert B., Chancellor of UNC, 1950, 1953, 1955-1957

Box 4 Folder 17 Kentucky Council on Public Higher Education, 1957

Box 4 Folder 18 Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC, 1959

Box 4 Folder 19 Moose, Phillip, President of Davidson College, 1952

Box 4 Folder 20 Morningside College, Honors System, 1958-1959

Box 4 Folder 21 New York University, 1951-1953, 1957-1958

Box 4 Folder 22 North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, 1951-1953, 1958-1959

Box 4 Folder 23 North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1956, 1958-1959

Box 4 Folder 24 Phelps School, Malvern, PA, 1959

Box 4 Folder 25 Phillips, Guy B., Dean of School of Education at UNC, Executive Secretary NC State School Board Association, 1947-1948, 1951-1952, 1954

Box 4 Folder 26 Plemmons, William H., President of Appalachian State Teachers College, 1956-1959

Box 4 Folder 27 Raper, W. Burkette, President of Mount Olive Junior College, 1956

Box 4 Folder 28 Reid, Paul, President of Western Carolina College, 1950-1951, 1956-1959

Box 4 Folder 29 Tribble, Harold W., President of Wake Forest College, 1951, 1956

Box 4 Folder 30 University of Florida, Gainesville, 1958-1959

Box 4 Folder 31 University of Indiana - Bloomington, Joint Doctoral Program in Education, 1956-1959

Box 4 Folder 32 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, correspondence with various professors, 1948, 1951-1959

Box 4 Folder 33 University of Texas at Austin, 1955

Box 4 Folder 34 Western Kentucky State College, Murphy Beds, 1950

Box 4 Folder 35 Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Curry School, 1951

Series 5 Local Correspondence and Papers, 1947-1959

Box 5 Folder 1 Blount Family, Judson, Marvin, and Leighton, 1949, 1952, 1954-1955

Box 5 Folder 2 Bloxam, Leonard P., Greenville City Manager, 1956-1957

Box 5 Folder 3 Campaign for the 48 States, 1956

Box 5 Folder 4 City Zoning Ordinance, Greenville, 1953

Box 5 Folder 5 Dees, Rev. James P., Trinity Episcopal Church, 1959

Box 5 Folder 6 DeVisconti, Tabitha, 1952

Box 5 Folder 7 East Carolina College Scholarship Foundations, 1952-1956, 1958

Box 5 Folder 8 Eastern North Carolina Scholarship Foundation, 1953-1955

Box 5 Folder 9 "Eppes High School To Graduate Second Largest Class", 1954

Box 5 Folder 10 Greenville Chamber of Commerce, Willard T. Kyzer, 1948, 1955

Box 5 Folder 11 Greenville City Board of Education, Joint Operation of Training School, 1952

Box 5 Folder 12 Greenville City Police Department, 1952-1953, 1959

Box 5 Folder 13 Greenville Utilities Commission, Statement of Financial Condition, 1953

Box 5 Folder 14 Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, 1952, 1954-1956, 1959

Box 5 Folder 15 Hardee, Roy, 1956

Box 5 Folder 16 Howard, Charles, Greenville Tobacco Company, 1955, 1958

Box 5 Folder 17 James and Speight, Attorneys at Law, 1955

Box 5 Folder 18 Jordahl, Russell N., Camp Lejeune, 1955-1956

Box 5 Folder 19 Joyner, Max, student behavior on Holly Street, 1958

Box 5 Folder 20 Pace, Dr. Karl B., 1954

Box 5 Folder 21 Pate, Edwin, Laurinburg, NC, 1954, 1956

Box 5 Folder 22 Pearsall, Thomas J., 1955-1956

Box 5 Folder 23 Pitt County Agricultural Fair, Norman Y. Chambliss, 1958-1959

Box 5 Folder 24 Pitt County Development Commission, 1959

Box 5 Folder 25 Pitt County Educational Foundation, Inc., 1952-1954

Box 5 Folder 26 Pitt County Executives Club, 1948-1951, 1955, 1958-1959

Box 5 Folder 27 Pitt County Health Department, 1956

Box 5 Folder 28 Pitt County Mental Health Clinic, Dr. Joseph Franzoni, 1956

Box 5 Folder 29 Pitt County Scholarship Foundation of East Carolina College, 1952-1953

Box 5 Folder 30 Pitt County Scholarship Foundation of East Carolina College, 1954-1956

Box 5 Folder 31 Price, Eugene, Goldsboro News-Argus, 1959

Box 5 Folder 32 Recreation Commission, Greenville, 1956-1959

Box 5 Folder 33 Red Cross, Pitt County Chapter, 1957

Box 5 Folder 34 Roberts, Judge J.W.H., 1950

Box 5 Folder 35 Rose, Junius H., Superintendent of Greenville City Schools, 1947-1950

Box 5 Folder 36 Rose, Junius H., Superintendent of Greenville City Schools, 1951

Box 5 Folder 37 Rose, Junius H., Superintendent of Greenville City Schools, 1952

Box 5 Folder 38 Rose, Junius H., Superintendent of Greenville City Schools, 1953-1958

Box 5 Folder 39 Saieed, Robert, The Varsity (Restaurant), 1959

Box 5 Folder 40 Scholarship Foundations Committee, 1954

Box 5 Folder 41 Scholarship Solicitation Letters, 1950, 1952-1956

Box 5 Folder 42 Smith, Dr. James, 1957

Box 5 Folder 43 "Somebody Told Me", Daily Reflector, 1953

Box 5 Folder 44 Spencer, Herbert G., District Airport Engineer, 1956

Box 5 Folder 45 Stafford, W.S., Mayor of Greenville, 1949-1950

Box 5 Folder 46 Taylor, William W., Warrenton, NC, 1956

Box 5 Folder 47 Veasey, W.F., Superintendent of Schools, Washington, NC, 1956

Box 5 Folder 48 Wheedbee, W.L., Mayor of Greenville, 1955-1956

Box 5 Folder 49 WITN, 1957

Box 5 Folder 50 WNCT, 1955

Series 6 Board of Trustees, 19447-1960

Box 6 Folder 1a Advisory Budget Commission, 1951-1959

Box 6 Folder 1b Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, correspondence, 1959

Box 6 Folder 2 Aydlett, N.E., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1955, 1957

Box 6 Folder 3 Barrett, Agnes W., Secretary to the Board of Trustees, 1948, 1958-1959

Box 6 Folder 4a Belk, Henry, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1947-1953

Box 6 Folder 4b Belk, Henry, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1954-1959

Box 6 Folder 5 Bennett, Elizabeth, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1959

Box 6 Folder 6 Carroll, Charles F., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1949-1953

Box 6 Folder 7 Cherry, Governor R. Gregg, 1948

Box 6 Folder 8 Clark, Miles L., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1951-1953

Box 6 Folder 9 Coltrane, D.S., Budget Bureau, 1950-1951, 1953-1954, 1959

Box 6 Folder 10 Corey, Arthur B., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1949

Box 6 Folder 11 Cox, Uran, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1950, 1952

Box 6 Folder 12 Erwin, Dr. Clyde, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1949, 1953

Box 6 Folder 13 Evans, Merrill, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1953-1954

Box 6 Folder 14 Fiftieth Anniversary, Letters inquiring about past members of the Board of Trustees, 1957

Box 6 Folder 15 Garrett, Radford Marvin (Ralph), Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1953, 1955-1956

Box 6 Folder 16 Goerch, Carl, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1957, 1959

Box 6 Folder 17 Hackney, Thomas J., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1947-1949

Box 6 Folder 18 Hall, Jane, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1949-1950, 1952

Box 6 Folder 19 Hamilton, Luther, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1955-1956, 1959

Box 6 Folder 20 Hamilton, T.T., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1949

Box 6 Folder 21 Hodges, Luther H., Governor, correspondence about the Board of Trustees appointments, 1955, 1957

Box 6 Folder 22 Hodges, Ralph, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1958-1959

Box 6 Folder 23 Holland, J.C., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1949

Box 6 Folder 24 Horton, Hugh G., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1949, 1951

Folder 6 Jenkins, Leo W., Letter from F.D. Duncan about Board of Trustees tuition changes, 1949

Box 6 Folder 26 Johnson, Ruth M., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1947-1948

Box 6 Folder 27 Johnson, T.C., 1951

Box 6 Folder 28 Larkins, Charles H., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1955, 1959

Box 6 Folder 29 Letters to the Board of Trustees and Committees by J.D. Messick, 1951-1954, 1959

Box 6 Folder 30 Messick, J.D., Resignation Letter addressed to the Board of Trustees, 1959

Box 6 Folder 31 Morgan, Robert B., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1958-1959

Box 6 Folder 32 Morris, C.P., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1951

Box 6 Folder 33 Oglesby, Henry, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1959

Box 6 Folder 34 O'Hanlon, I.H., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1953, 1955, 1958-1959

Box 6 Folder 35 Palmer, Janet, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1949-1951

Box 6 Folder 36 Rawl, Edwin E., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1953-1954, 1957-1959

Box 6 Folder 37 Ridenhour, Baxter, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1959

Box 6 Folder 38 Ross, Ola S., Assistant Registrar, 1953

Box 6 Folder 39 Stedman, John P., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1947, 1949-1953

Box 6 Folder 40 Swindell, Dr. Lewis H., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1949, 1952-1953, 1955

Box 7 Folder 41 Taylor, William W. Jr., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1955

Box 7 Folder 42 Tyler, Arthur, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1949, 1952-1953, 1955-1959

Box 7 Folder 43 Umstead, Mrs. William B. (Merle), Member of the Board of Trustees, 1955

Box 7 Folder 44 Waldrop, J. Herbert, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948, 1958-1959

Box 7 Folder 45 White, R.J., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1949-1951

Box 7 Folder 46 Whitfield, James, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1959

Box 7 Folder 47 Willetts, Fred, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1953, 1955, 1959

Box 7 Folder 48 Williams, Mrs. B.T., Member of the Board of Trustees, 1951-1954

Box 7 Folder 49 Williams, Warren, Member of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1949

Box 7 Folder 50 ECTC Name Change to ECC, 1950-1951

Box 7 Folder 51 Enrollment and Salary Information Provided for the Board of Trustees, 1949, 1951-1952, 1955-1956

Box 7 Folder 52 Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, Minutes, 1957-1959

Box 7 Folder 53 General Assembly Bill and Bulletins, 1955, 1957

Box 7 Folder 54 Maintenance Fund and Financial Papers, 1947-1950, 1952-1954

Box 7 Folder 55 Maintenance Funds, Loan Funds, and Financial Papers, 1955-1957

Box 7 Folder 56 Maintenance Fund and Financial Papers, 1958-1959

Box 7 Folder 57 Meeting of the Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes, 1951-1954

Box 7 Folder 58 Meeting of the Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes, 1955-1958

Box 7 Folder 59 Meeting of the Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes, 1959

Box 7 Folder 60 Membership Lists of the Board of Trusees, 1948-1949, 1951-1953, 1955, 1957-1959

Box 7 Folder 61 President's Report to the Board of Trustees, 1947, 1958

Box 7 Folder 62 President's Report to the Board of Trustees, 1959-1960

Box 7 Folder 63 Resolutions by the Board of Trustees, 1958

Box 7 Folder 64 Salary Schedules, 1946-1948, 1953, 1957, 1959

Series 7 Students and Campus Events, 1947-1959

Box 8 Folder 1 Annual Report for the Robert H. Wright Chapter of Future Teachers of America to the SGA, 1952-1953

Box 8 Folder 2 Campus Kisses and Party Raid, "The Big Yellow", 1959

Box 8 Folder 3 Campus Events, 1951-1959

Box 8 Folder 4 Commencement, 1947-1952

Box 8 Folder 5 Commencement, 1953

Box 8 Folder 6 Commencement, 1954

Box 8 Folder 7 Commencement, 1955-1956

Box 8 Folder 8 Commencement, 1957-1959

Box 8 Folder 9 East Carolina Players Press Book, 1950

Box 8 Folder 10 Educational Fraternities, Tau Beta Sigma and Phi Delta Kappa, 1955, 1959

Box 8 Folder 11 Fiftieth Anniversary ,Correspondence and Invitation List, 1957-1958

Box 8 Folder 12 Fiftieth Anniversary News Articles, 1957

Box 8 Folder 13 Fiftieth Anniversary Pageant Program, 1957

Box 8 Folder 14 Fiftieth Anniversary Programs, 1957

Box 8 Folder 15 Fiftieth Anniversary Section, The Daily Reflector, May 14, 1958

Box 8 Folder 16 Founder's Day - Robert Lee Humber's Speech, 1948, 1950, 1955

Box 8 Folder 17 Fraternities and Sororities - Questionaire, Reports, Correspondence, 1956-1958

Box 8 Folder 18 Fraternity, Delta Phi, 1958

Box 8 Folder 19 Fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order, 1957-1958

Box 8 Folder 20 Fraternity, Kappa Sigma Nu, 1956-1958

Box 8 Folder 21 Fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha

Box 8 Folder 22 Fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, 1948-1949, 1952, 1954

Box 8 Folder 23 Fraternity, Phi Lambda Phi, 1958

Box 8 Folder 24 Fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa, 1958

Box 8 Folder 25 Fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, 1958

Box 8 Folder 26 Fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1953, 1958-1959

Box 8 Folder 27 Fraternity, Sigma Rho Phi, 1954

Box 8 Folder 28 Fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1954

Box 8 Folder 29 Fraternity, Theta Chi, 1953, 1958-1959

Box 8 Folder 30 Freshman Orientation Program, 1957-1958

Box 8 Folder 31 High School Day, 1949-1954

Box 8 Folder 32 High School Day, 1955-1958

Box 8 Folder 33 Homecoming Day for Alumni, 1956, 1958

Box 8 Folder 34 Interfraternity Research and Advisory Council, 1958

Box 8 Folder 35 Inter-Religious Council, 1949-1959

Box 8 Folder 36 Inter Sorority Council, 1959

Box 8 Folder 37 Letters to Students and Parents, 1950, 1952-1953, 1956-1959

Box 8 Folder 38 Messick, J.D., Letter "To The Student Body", 1950

Box 8 Folder 39 Music Foundation, 1954

Box 9 Folder 40 Panty Raid, 1955

Box 9 Folder 41 Parking Rules, 1956

Box 9 Folder 42 Pirates Club, 1953

Box 9 Folder 43 Pirates Club, 1954-1958

Box 9 Folder 44 "The Rebel", Student Literary Magazine, 1957-1959

Box 9 Folder 45 Recommendations for Students, 1955, 1957-1958

Box 9 Folder 46 Sanford, Terry, Young Democratic Clubs of North Carolina, 1950

Box 9 Folder 47 Senior Class Gifts, 1948, 1951

Box 9 Folder 48 Society of Buccaneers, Alumni Group, Henry Oglesby named Chief Buccaneer, 1959

Box 9 Folder 49 Sorority, Alpah Delta Pi, 1959

Box 9 Folder 50 Sorority, Alpha Phi, 1959

Box 9 Folder 51 Sorority, Alpha XI Delta, 1959

Box 9 Folder 52 Sorority, Chi Omega, 1959

Box 9 Folder 53 Sorority, Delta Zeta, 1958-1959

Box 9 Folder 54 Sorority, Kappa Delta Kappa, 1958-1959

Box 9 Folder 55 Sorority, Phi Beta Chi, 1959

Box 9 Folder 56 Sorority, Sigma, Sigma, Sigma, 1959

Box 9 Folder 57 Student Government Association (SGA), 1952-1959

Box 9 Folder 58 United Nations Day, 1957

Series 8 Faculty and Staff, Bulk, 1947-1959

Box 10 Folder 1 Administrators, Librarians, and Faculty Members Added From 1945 to 1952, 1952

Box 10 Folder 2 Advisory Committee on Graduate Instruction, 1952, 1959

Box 10 Folder 3 College & Specialist Bureau, 1958

Box 10 Folder 4 English Usage Committee, 1956

Box 10 Folder 5 Faculty Data, Handwritten, 1950

Box 10 Folder 6 Faculty Fellowship Program, 1951

Box 10 Folder 7 Faculty Lists, 1950-1959

Box 10 Folder 8 Faculty Meetings Minutes, 1947-1952

Box 10 Folder 9 Faculty Meeting Minutes, 1953-1959

Box 10 Folder 10 Faculty Newsletters, 1949-1952, 1954, 1956-1959, n.d.

Box 10 Folder 11 Faculty Plays, 1952-1955, 1958

Box 10 Folder 12 Faculty Policies Committee, Minutes, 1947-1949

Box 10 Folder 13 Faculty Policies Committee, Minutes, 1950-1954

Box 10 Folder 14 Faculty Policies Committee, Minutes, 1955-1956

Box 10 Folder 15 Faculty Policies Committee, Minutes, 1957-1959

Box 10 Folder 16 Faculty Rating, 1950, 1954

Box 10 Folder 17 Faculty Wives Club, 1959

Box 10 Folder 18 Fletcher, Inglis, Visit to ECC, 1957-1959, 1964

Box 10 Folder 19 Jenkins, Leo W., Appointment as Dean of Instruction and Service During Messick's Tenure, 1947-1959

Box 10 Folder 20 Jenkins, Leo W., Marine Corps Service, 1949, 1953, 1958

Box 10 Folder 21 Messick, J.D., Correspondence with Faculty Members, 1950-1959

Box 10 Folder 22 National Association of Teachers Agencies, 1959

Box 10 Folder 23 "The Responsibility of Higher Education," Faculty Meeting, 1954

Box 10 Folder 24 Retired Professors Registry, 1958

Box 10 Folder 25 Retired Teachers Are Honored," Mamie E. Jenkins and Dora E. Coates, 1954

Box 10 Folder 26 Russell, J.L., 1947-1949

Box 10 Folder 27 Rutledge, Archibald, Visit to ECC, 1952-1953

Box 10 Folder 28 Schwarz, Josef, German Educator's Visit to ECC, 1951-1952

Box 10 Folder 29 Sick Leave for Dr. Howard Clay, 1959

Box 10 Folder 30 Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, 1953-1959

Series 9 ECC Land and Buildings, Bulk, 1947-1959

Box 11 Folder 1 Barber Family Land, 1949-1951

Box 11 Folder 2 Barber Family Land, 1953-1954, 1956

Box 11 Folder 3 Building/Department Budget Requests, Permanent Improvement Fund, 1947-1957, 1959

Box 11 Folder 4 Cafeteria and Kitchen Renovation, 1955, 1957-1959

Box 11 Folder 5 Classroom Building, correspondence about bids, cost estimates, 1957-1959

Box 11 Folder 6 College Stadium Fundraising Drive, Ed Rawl Chairman, 1948-1950, 1952

Box 11 Folder 7 Commission for the Study of a Twelve Months' Use of Public School Buildings and Facilities for Public School Purposes, n.d.

Box 11 Folder 8 Dormitory Revenue Bonds, 1958

Box 11 Folder 9 Dunn Building Supply Company, Inc., 1952, 1959

Box 11 Folder 10 ECC News Bureau Articles, Campus Construction, 1953-1954, 1956, 1958-1959

Box 11 Folder 11 Ficklen, James Skinner, Memorial Sketch, 1955

Box 11 Folder 12 Flanagan Building, named after Ed Flanagan, 1949

Box 11 Folder 13 Flanagan, Eric G., Architect, 1950, 1955, 1957-1958

Box 11 Folder 14 Flanagan Sylvan Outdoor Theatre, 1955-1957

Box 11 Folder 15 Forbes and Gilbert Land Condemnation Proceedings, 1948-1949

Box 11 Folder 16 Foreign Language Laboratory, 1959

Box 11 Folder 17 Garrett Hall Dedication Programs, 1957

Box 11 Folder 18 General Insurance Agency, 1958

Box 11 Folder 19 Hackney, Thomas J., Hackney Bros. Body Co., 1948-1949, 1957

Box 11 Folder 20 Hardee-Frizelle Land, 1956-1959

Box 11 Folder 21 J.Y. Joyner Library and Erwin Hall Dedication, Joyner Portrait, 1949, 1951-1954

Box 11 Folder 22 J.Y. Joyner Library and Erwin Hall Dedication, Joyner Portrait, 1955, 1958-1959

Box 11 Folder 23 Maxwell, Allen J., Architect, 1948-1950

Box 11 Folder 24 Memorial Health and Physical Education Building, Dedication Game Versus UNC, 1952-1953

Box 11 Folder 25 Music Hall, Whichard Music Building, 1954, 1957-1959

Box 11 Folder 26 North State Construction Company, 1958

Box 11 Folder 27 Organs, Pipe and Electrical, 1949-1950, 1955

Box 11 Folder 28 Peck, W.H. ,The Budget Bureau, location of transformers in Dormitory for Men, 1950

Box 11 Folder 29 Portrait Unveiling Cotten Hall, 1958

Box 11 Folder 30 Post Office Contract Station on Campus, 1950, 1953-1954

Box 11 Folder 31 Post Office Contract Station on Campus, 1955-1956

Box 11 Folder 32 President's Home Furnishings, June 16, 1949-September 23, 1949

Box 11 Folder 33 President's Home Furnishings, November 18, 1949- June 15, 1951

Box 11 Folder 34 Rawl Building and Jones Hall, 1959

Box 11 Folder 35 Rivers, Thomas W., Trustee for Taft and Blount Land, 1959

Box 11 Folder 36 Space Utiliazation Analysis For Government and Industry, 1956-1958

Box 11 Folder 37 Thomas, Harles, and Edwards, Architects, 1957-1958

Box 11 Folder 38 Turner, Frank B., Engineer, 1949-1951

Box 11 Folder 39 Turner, Frank B., Engineer, 1952-1955

Box 11 Folder 40 Turner, Frank B., Engineer, 1956-1959

Box 11 Folder 41 Umstead Hall, Portrait of William B. Umstead, 1954, 1958, 1962

Box 11 Folder 42 West India Fruit and Steamship Co., Inc., Dan Taylor, 1953-1954, 1956, 1958

Series 10 Academic Papers, Bulk, 1947-1959

Box 12 Folder 1 Annual Report Blank of North Carolina Colleges, 1948-1952

Box 12 Folder 2 Annual Report Blank of North Carolina Colleges, 1953-1959

Box 12 Folder 3 Appropriations Committee, Budget Requests, 1953-1955

Box 12 Folder 4 Appropriations Committee, Budget Requests, 1956-1958

Box 12 Folder 5 Area Testing Center for State Employment, 1959

Box 12 Folder 6 Bulletin from the Office of the President, 1953

Box 12 Folder 7 Business Development Corporation of North Carolina, 1955-1957

Box 12 Folder 8a Christenbury Award Committee, 1947-1953, 1964

Box 12 Folder 8b College Bulletin, 1950-1953

Box 12 Folder 9 Comparative Data, Report on Changes Between 1947 and 1959, Messick's Tenure, 1959

Box 12 Folder 10 Dormitory Applications for Women Students, Letter from Ruth White Dean of Women, 1955

Box 10 Folder 10b Duncan, F.D., ECC Treasurer and Business Manager, 1947-1959

Box 12 Folder 11 ECC and Woman's College Cost Differences Discussed, 1955

Box 12 Folder 12 Edward and Broughton Company, Engravers for the ECC Seal, 1951-1952

Box 12 Folder 13 Enrollment and Grade Distribution, 1945-1948, 1951-1958

Box 12 Folder 14 Enrollment by NC Counties, maps, 1951-1959

Box 12 Folder 15 Enrollment in Pitt County, map, 1951-1952

Box 12 Folder 16 Entrance Examinations, 1956, 1959

Box 12 Folder 17 Extension Courses, 1950, 1952, 1957, 1959

Box 12 Folder 18 Final Examination, ED 318s, Oppelt, 1955

Box 12 Folder 19 Freshman Testing Program, 1956-1957

Box 12 Folder 20a The Fund For The Advancement of Education, Ford Foundation, 1953-1956

Box 12 Folder 20b Home Economics Education, 1952

Box 12 Folder 21 Humanities Courses, 1955

Box 12 Folder 22 James Fenly Spear Memorial Award, 1950-1951, 1953

Box 12 Folder 23 Jugtown Pottery, 1951

Box 12 Folder 24 Liberal Arts Degree, n.d.

Box 12 Folder 25 Library Book Collection, Donations from Judge Romulus Nunn, Nelson Howard, and C.L. Eaddy, 1951, 1959

Box 12 Folder 26 Library Science Instructors, 1959

Box 12 Folder 27 Louis Orr Etchings, 1951

Box 12 Folder 28 Masters of Business Administration, 1959-1960

Box 12 Folder 29 Miscellaneous Academic Correspondence, 1956, 1958-1959

Box 12 Folder 30 Music Department, Kenneth N. Cuthbert, 1954

Box 12 Folder 31 Nominating Committee for President, 1959

Box 12 Folder 32 Organization For Policy Making and Administration of ECTC, 1947-1949

Box 12 Folder 33 Outdoor Education Committee, 1950-1953

Box 12 Folder 34 Owen G. Dunn Co., Printers, ECC Seal, 1956

Box 12 Folder 35 Placement Office, ECC Graduates, 1958

Box 12 Folder 36 Pfohl, Dr. James Christian, Translyvania Music Camp, 1959

Box 12 Folder 37 Qualifications of a College President, 1955, 1959

Box 12 Folder 38 Radio Broadcasts, list of, 1949-1953

Box 12 Folder 39 Radio Station WOOW, 1959

Box 12 Folder 40 Radio Station WWWS, 1956-1957, 1959

Box 13 Folder 41 Registrar's Office, 1948, 1958

Box 13 Folder 42 Report on East Carolina College by J.D. Messick, 1958

Box 13 Folder 43 Report to the Board of Higher Education, 1956, n.d.

Box 13 Folder 44 Research Budget Requests, 1958

Box 13 Folder 45 ROTC, Air Force, 1947-1952

Box 13 Folder 46 ROTC, Air Force, 1954-1958

Box 13 Folder 47 Salary Information from Other Colleges, 1955-1959

Box 13 Folder 48 School and Society, 1957

Box 13 Folder 49 School Health, 1951

Box 13 Folder 50 School of Nursing, 1954-1959

Box 13 Folder 51 Sloane Foundation, 1951

Box 13 Folder 52 Social Studies Department, 1958-1959

Box 13 Folder 53 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1948-1951

Box 13 Folder 54 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1952-1953

Box 13 Folder 55 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1954-1955

Box 13 Folder 56 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1956

Box 13 Folder 57 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1957

Box 13 Folder 58 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1958

Box 13 Folder 59 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, January 29, 1959 - September 24, 1959

Box 13 Folder 60 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, October 1, 1959 - December 29, 1959, n.d.

Box 13 Folder 61 Southern Fellowship Fund, 1956-1959

Box 13 Folder 62 Southern Regional Education Board, 1957-1958

Box 13 Folder 63 Southern University Conference, 1953-1954

Box 14 Folder 64 Speech and Hearing Clinic, 1955

Box 14 Folder 65 Star Engraving Company, Houston, Texas, 1947, 1949-1951, 1956, 1958

Box 14 Folder 66 Student Loans/Scholarships, 1950-1959

Box 14 Folder 67 Student Teaching, 1958

Box 14 Folder 68 Summer Music Camp, 1957-1958

Box 14 Folder 69 Summer School 1948, December 15, 1947 - June 30, 1948

Box 14 Folder 70 Summer School 1948, July5, 1948 - September 14, 1948

Box 14 Folder 71 Summer School 1949, 1949

Box 14 Folder 72 Summer School 1950, 1950

Box 14 Folder 73 Summer School 1951, December 1, 1950 - March 26, 1951

Box 14 Folder 74 Summer School 1951, April 26, 1951 - August 9, 1951

Box 14 Folder 75 Summer School 1952, 1952

Box 14 Folder 76 Summer School 1953, 1953

Box 14 Folder 77 Summer School 1954, 1954

Box 14 Folder 78 Summer School 1955, 1955

Box 14 Folder 79 Summer School 1956, 1956

Box 14 Folder 80 Summer School 1957, 1957

Box 14 Folder 81 Summer School 1958, 1958

Box 14 Folder 82 Summer School 1959, 1959

Box 14 Folder 83 Summer School, Wilmington, 1949, 1952-1954

Box 14 Folder 84 Supervised Teaching Reports, n.d.

Box 14 Folder 85 Teaching Load, 1948

Box 15 Folder 86 Television, Educational Uses, 1951-1953

Box 15 Folder 87 Television, Educational Uses, 1954-1959

Box 15 Folder 88 Television, Educational Closed-Circuit, 1956-1957

Box 15 Folder 89 Television, Educational Closed-Circuit, 1958-1959

Box 15 Folder 90 Television, Educational Broadcast, 1954-1955

Box 15 Folder 91 Television, Educational Broadcast, 1956-1959

Box 15 Folder 92 Television Programs at ECC, correspondence, 1954-1956, 1959

Box 15 Folder 93 Training School Library Circulation Record, 1950

Box 15 Folder 94 Travel-Study Tour, Dr. Ed J. Carter and Dr. Cramer, 1952, 1954-1959

Box 15 Folder 95 Tuition changes at ECC, 1954, 1957, 1959

Box 15 Folder 96 Tuiton Report for North Carolina Colleges, 1954

Box 15 Folder 97 Typewriters, 1959

Box 15 Folder 98 United States Government Depository, ECTC Library, 1951

Box 15 Folder 99 White House Conference on Education, 1951, 1955

Box 15 Folder 100 White House Conference on Education, Reports, 1955

Box 15 Folder 101 White House Conference on Education, newspapers and brochures, 1955-1956

Box 15 Folder 102 White House Conference on Education, Reports, n.d.

Series 11 Miscellaneous Articles, 1947-1959

Box 16 Folder 1 Bulletin, Friends of the Public Schools, 1952

Box 16 Folder 2 Carl Sandburg, An Appreciation by Edwin Gill, Carl Sandburg Luncheon Raleigh, NC, 1958

Box 16 Folder 3 College and University Finance Associates, "Comparative Room and Board Rates for 62 Southwestern Institutions of Higher Learning for the Fall Semster 1954", 1954

Box 16 Folder 4 Greensboro Daily News, "Speaker Discusses Techinical Training", 1958

Box 16 Folder 5 News and Observer Article, "The Goodliest Land Under the Cope of Heaven", 1954

Box 16 Folder 6 News and Observer Article, "Railroad Nobody Wanted Soon to Become Newest Artery to Sea", 1957

Box 16 Folder 7 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1947-1950, 1947-1950

Box 16 Folder 8 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1951, 1951

Box 16 Folder 9 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1952, 1952

Box 16 Folder 10 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1953, 1953

Box 16 Folder 11 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1954, 1954

Box 16 Folder 12 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1955, 1955

Box 16 Folder 13 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1956, 1956

Box 16 Folder 14 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1957, 1957

Box 16 Folder 15 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1958, 1958

Box 16 Folder 16 Photocopied Newspaper Articles 1959, 1959

Box 16 Folder 17 The State, "57 North Carolina Colleges", April 17, 1954

Box 16 Folder 18 Ten Commandments For Eastern North Carolina, 1955-1956

Box 16 Folder 19 UNC Chapel Hill Entry, Black Students, newspaper clipping, 1949

Box 16 Folder 20 "82% of 'New' Teachers In 1960 Stayed in State", 1960

Series 12 Miscellaneous

Box 17 Folder 1 Hymnal

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Series 12 Miscellaneous

Box 17 Folder 1 Hymnal

Records of John Decatur Messick's Tenure as President of East Carolina Teachers College and East Carolina College

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