Jenkins, Mamie E. (Mamie Elizabeth), 1875-1957
Variant namesMamie E. Jenkins (1875-1957) taught in the English Department at East Carolina Teachers College for thirty-six years. She was one of the first three faculty members to be selected for service at East Carolina Teachers Training School. Jenkins served from 1909, when the school opened, until 1946. One of the first four women to receive a baccalaureate degree from Trinity College (Duke University), Jenkins subsequently was awarded a master's degree by Columbia University and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and other schools. Before coming to Greenville, she taught in the public schools of Durham and Wilmington, N.C., and at Martha Washington College in Virginia and Granada College in Mississippi. During her years of service at East Carolina, she was deeply involved in the development of the institution. She edited the "Training School Quarterly," served as a faculty advisor for the school newspaper "Teco Echo" for fourteen years, and directed the college news agency for eighteen years. Jenkins was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma, and the A.A.U.W. The faculty-alumni building on the East Carolina campus was named in her honor.
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creatorOf | Jenkins, Mamie Elizabeth, d. 1957. Papers, 1920-1935. | Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library | |
creatorOf | Mamie E. Jenkins Papers, 1898-1947 | East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library | |
creatorOf | Jenkins, Mamie Elizabeth. Sextus Pompeius Festus, Paulus Diaconus and Verrius Flaccus. | Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries |
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associatedWith | Cranford, William Ivey. | person |
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associatedWith | Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac, 1878-1961 | person |
correspondedWith | Jenkins family | family |
associatedWith | Meadows, Leon Renfroe, b. 1884. | person |
associatedWith | Musée de la coopération franco-américaine. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Wright, Robert Herring, 1870-1934. | person |
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Birth 1875
Death 1957
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