Pearle McCain Oral History Interview, February 6, 1981

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Pearle McCain Oral History Interview, February 6, 1981

February 6, 1981

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/OH0068/

Included are discussions of work in Peking, Shanghai, and Sungkiang. Commentaries concern educational work, Japanese invasion, personal relationships, travel, local customs, seminary work, and the effect of World War II on China. Also of interest are views of the Communis government, departure from China, college eaching in Japan, and a return visit to Japan and Shanghai in 1980.

0.01 Cubic Feet; 1 audiocassette, 2 hours, 35 pages

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11665348

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Lennon, Donald R.

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>Don Lennon was a longtime director of the East Carolina Manuscript Collection and Coordinator of Special Collections. Born in Brunswick County, North Carolina on October 6, 1938, he attended junior college in Wilmington, NC before completing his studies at East Carolina College. He taught school and worked in the North Carolina state archives before returning to East Carolina to assist with the creation of a historical manuscript collection. He passed away in Greenville, NC on April 26, 2018.Do...

McCain, Pearle, 1902-1983

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Dr. Pearle McCain (1902-1983), a native of Arkansas, was educated at Scarritt College, Columbia University, and Union Theological Seminary. She arrived in China in 1929 where she remained until 1942 when World War II forced her to return to the United States. She returned to China in 1946 only to be forced out by the Communist government in 1949. In 1951 Dr. McCain was sent to Japan where she taught for twenty years....