Category: Faculty
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E.B. Jackson: North Greenville Captain, SC Lieutenant Governor, Farmer’s Advocate, and Coca-Cola’s Enemy
Edmund Bellinger Jackson was born on June 29, 1879, to parents Wiley Quitman Jackson and Laura Ann Jeffcoat Jackson in Aiken County, South Carolina. The Jacksons were poor farmers, but Edmund Jackson made his education a priority when he was not plowing fields. Through his hard work, he earned a…
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Elsie Tuttle: Teacher and Traveler
“Miss Tuttle, small of stature but towering in her spirit of dedication and unbending principle, has given herself without reservation to the training of young minds and building of Christian character for forty-six years, twenty-seven of them at North Greenville.” December 19, 1896, in Graymont, Illinois, parents William Atwood Tuttle…
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Professor and Poet: Bernard Meredith
“Students think specialization is what college is about. That’s not college. We need to make good citizens, people who can speak, think, and write clearly and coherently. We need to round out the whole person. Education is both intellectual and spiritual. How can a professor teach literature without a knowledge…
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North Greenville’s First Academic Dean and Co-Founder: Dr. Samuel Miller Lawton
“Among Mr. Lawton’s most valued characteristics are his steadfast refusal to be discouraged, his persistence, his determination, his genuine appreciation of deep spiritual values, and his constant sense of humor which has served him and his colleagues well in tiding over many a discouraging situation.” – The Greenville News, May…
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North Greenville’s First Historian: Jean Martin Flynn
“This year, more than ever, North Greenville has taken its place among the colleges of the state and of the South because of, to a large extent, a book, ‘A History of North Greenville Junior College’, by Jean Martin Flynn. It is Miss Flynn’s interest in this school and in…
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Alice Stockton Lawton: A Co-Founder of North Greenville Junior College
“In the company of the admirable ones who came into our world bereft of the gift of sight, there is no more heroic one than Dr. Sam M. Lawton of South Carolina. His academic degrees reveal accomplishments which would have been heroic for the sighted ones of us–Bachelor of Arts,…
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Women’s History at North Greenville
Women have played a vital role in North Greenville’s history since the very beginning. North Greenville was founded as a co-ed institution in 1892 and has remained one throughout its existence. Women have also served in roles such as faculty, dorm mothers, dieticians, and nurses but it has not always…
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North Greenville’s First African American Professor: Judge Alex Kinlaw, Jr.
Alex Kinlaw, Jr. grew up in Georgetown, SC as the son of Alex Kinlaw, Sr. and Corinne Giles Kinlaw. His dad was an AME minister and Judge Kinlaw grew up attending church and singing in the choir. His parents only had an 8th and 9th grade education and no one…
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Desegregation at North Greenville
When North Greenville High School opened for classes in 1893, not all students were allowed to attend. The Articles of North Greenville High School stated in the admittance policy, “While said school is directly under the control and patronage of the North Greenville Baptist Association it shall be open to…
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Mr. BSU: Dr. Wade Hale
“There are several reasons why I teach at North Greenville… The college is small and allows individual interest and counsel for any student who will avail himself of these helps. Then there is the challenge of the small part that each instructor can have in the lives of the many…
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