Ruth White Receives Alumni Award

This article describes the Alumni Association award. This and other articles may be found in the University Archives.

Citation for this article is: Greene, Mary H."Ruth White Receives Alumni Award," Alumni Bulletin of East Carolina College, Volume V, No. 3, May 1951.

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Ruth White of COlerain, dean of women at East Carolina received the annual award made by the Alumni Association to an outstanding graduate on Alumni Day, May 19.

Miss White is the twelfth graduate and the ninth woman to receive the award, which each year is given by the Alumni Association to honor a member distinguished for server and accomplishment.

Annie L. Morton of Beaufort, who before her retirement last spring was dean of women at East Carolina for 25 years, presented the award at a meeting of the Association on Saturday morning in the Austin Auditorium on the campus.In accepting the honor, Miss White paid tribute to her predecessor and expressed gratitude for her guidance and influence during 13 years of work together.

The college motto, "To Serve," Miss White told college alumni Saturday, encouraged her during her student days at East Carolina to become a teacher in the elementary grades. Later it influenced her to return to East Carolina as a counselor to women students.Her talk stressed the obligations of adults to youth.

Miss White knows the college from long association. She enrolled as a freshman in 1923 and completed the two-year normal course in 1925. After 12 years of teaching in Roanoke Rapids, she again became a student and completed the requirements for the bachelor's degree.This spring she received her master's degree.

In 1937 Miss White began her duties at East Carolina as dormitory counselor on the staff of Dean of Women Morton.In 1945 she was appointed assistant dean of women and held this position until Miss Morton's retirement last May.