East Carolina University - Buccaneer Tecoan Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Tec This is East Carolina Teachers College in the school year of 1948- 1949. This Mas a year of great events not only to the students of the college but also to the people of the community, nation and the world. On the top place in international affairs was the duel between the United States and Russia for world leadership. These two countries had exchanged insults until it looked as though war were inevitable. In China fighting continued as usual. Leading national affairs was the election of President Harry S. Truman for a second term — a feat declared impossible by many political experts. Taking second place in the news of the nation was high prices. Even Congress seemed baffled at this problem, and prices continued to rise. Here at home in North Carolina the election of Governor Kerr Scott was the big event. It started the politicians thinking. The college in 1948-1949 completed its forty-first year of service and grew in prestige as one of the best colleges for training teachers in the Southeast. When the school year began, twenty-one build- ings stood on the campus, surpassed by few in beauty. The student body that year was composed of men and w omen in almost equal numbers.

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