Faculty - Alice V. Wilson
Press Release dated November 19, 1939 regarding the career of Miss Alice V. Wilson. This and other press releases may be found in the records of News Bureau, Record Group IA1300, Series 1, News Release File, 1939-1988 in the University Archives.
Citation for this particular press release is:
News Release, November 19, 1939, ECU Universty Archives, Record Group IA1300, Series 1, Box 1, Folder A.
Greenville, Nov. 19--One of the colorful figures of the East Carolina Teachers College campus is missing from the Homecoming celebration of the College today because of the resignation last spring of Miss Alice V. Wilson, twenty-one years a member of the Science Department, who resigned to spend some time, as she said "doing some of the other things I have always wanted to have time for."
Former students and other friends of East Carolina Teachers College will hear with regret of the retirement of Miss Wilson from active service, for of the hundreds of students who sat under her stimulating teaching, few will fail to remember her trenchant comments on men and events, and none can have failed to profit from her great store of information on the plant and animal life of this section.Her ideas are rooted in the minds of numberless girls who have gone out from East Carolina Teachers College.
Her field trips were especially famous among the college students, for on them many a prospective teacher had her eyes opened for the first time to the wealth of material for nature study all around the schoolhouses and homes of eastern North Carolina.
Though Miss Wilson's quick wit and insisive speech gave her a reputation in the classroom for being a dangerous person to try to "bluff", many a girl felt the kind heart and deep interest behind the brusque manner, and many a one even enjoyed an occasional battle of wits with her.
Born in Lenoir, Miss Wilson is a native North Carolinian, a member of a family well known in education in the State.Dr. Louis Wilson, long at Chapel Hill as librarian and founder of the library school there and now head of the library school of the University of Chicago, is a brother, as are also, Dr. R.M. Wilson, professor of chemistry at Duke, and Edward Wilson for years headmaster of a private school in Philadelphia.
Miss Wilson first came to Greenville to teach in summer school in 1912, the third summer after the founding of the College.She was then on the faculty of Winthrop College, South Carolina, during the regular year.And she joined the East Carolina Teachers College faculty for full time work in 1917, thus having a records of twenty-one years of continuous service on the campus here.She had taught earlier at Centenary College, Cleveland, Tennessee, and Greensboro College for Women, as well as in the public schools of the State.
Lois Grigsby, ECTC News Bureau
