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

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rHE PRESIDENT ' S HOME Until recent years, this abode on Fifth Street, which is now Women ' s Dormitory, was the home of the President. The Pres- ident ' s Home is now directly across the street and beside Women ' s Dormitory. WILSON MEMORIAL One of the college ' s early at- tractions, which no longer exists, was this beautiful and romantic structure. It could be seen to the west of Wilson Dormitory. POWER PLANT For many years, the Power Plant, now located be- side the laundry, was centered to the rear of Jarvis Dormitory and Austin Building. The Cafeteria now occupies this spot. ioneered Our Ways. I V-IMHMmHH

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Ground Breaking Ceremony The group assembled for the ceremony above is made up largely of men and women who had worked hard to obtain the school for the town of Greenville. Ground was broken on July 2, 1908, by Ex-Governor Thomas J. Jarvis. The first shovelful of dirt was removed from the site of the first building to be started, at the northeast corner of East Dormitory, now Jarvis Hall, dormitory for women students. First Faculty of East Carolina Teachers Training School These are members of the first faculty of East Carolina Teachers Training School. Of this group, Miss Kate Lewis is the only living member. Pictured top row, left to right: Kate W. Lewis, Art; W. H. Rags- dale, Education; Birdie McKinney, Latin; Sallie Joyner Davis, History; Maria D. Graham, Mathematics; Mamie E. Jenkins, English; C. W. Wilson, Education; Mrs. Jennie M. Ogiden, Home Economics; Fannie Bishop, Piano; Herbert E. Austin, Science; Robert H. Wright, President. Is a Reflection of Those Whc

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Mr. Waldrop and Liz are told that a good place to begin a tour of the campus is at the Alumni House. Here, they find Alumni Secretary, James Butler, eager pany them on their excursion. V , ' 1 ' PROGRESS THROUGH When one has not been a student at his Alma Mater for many, many years, he finds it informative and fas- cinating to return and tour the campus, looking at it through the eyes of a newcomer who is yet to experi- ence the wonderfulness that can be felt from college fe. Mr. J. Herbert Waldrop, Jr., one of Greenville ' s leading citizens, who was a freshman here in 1910 and is currently serving his second term as a trustee of our college, is back getting a new im- pression of East Carolina. He finds his tour en- livened by the sparkling personality of Elizabeth Cox, a very lovely, first quarter freshman coed from Raleigh. Seeing East Carolina College as it is today makes it difficult to realize that only fifty years ago, March 8, 1907, the General As- sembly passed an Act authorizing the estab- lishment of the college. During this period, second point of interest is a visit president ' s office. Dr. Messick is his heerful and well-groomed self. Mr. Smiley, the librarian, speaks of how recently the present library building was built. Liz discovers that it is only about four years old. Liz, we ' re standing in the middle of what used to be a lake. Neither was Memorial Gym- nasium constructed until the e irly Fifties Foresight and Toil