Title: Oral history interview with Wendell and Elva Smiley

Identifier: UA60.02.172   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/60929)

Description: Oral history interview with Wendell and Elva Smiley at their home. The Smileys discuss campus life at East Carolina College while Wendell Smiley was employed as librarian and director of Joyner Library and Dean of Men from 1943 to 1973. Topics include Chancellor Meadows, the student bookstore, campus improvements, serving as Dean of Men when male students were relatively new to campus, and the building of a new library completed in 1954. The interviewer is believed to be Mary Jo Bratton. Recorded on December 10, 1989.