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VOLUME 5
NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, A^RCH 1, 1963
NUMBER 42
We may never .he day that
this Is an honest to goodness
college town, but once, In the
Gay Nineties, our proud village
could boast of the New Bern
Collegiate Institute.
There were 245 students from
New Bern and Craven county
enrolled for the 1891-92 year,
plus two from Cumberland
county, seven from Pamlico,
eight from Carteret, four from
Hyde, two from Jones, and one
each from Pitt, Johnston,
Forsythe, Lenoir and Onslow.
Even Wakefield, Mass., and
Frankford, Delaware con
tributed one pupil each to the
student body, so you see word
had really gotten around about
the Institute.
Among the New Bernians who
furthered their education there
were such well-known old
timers as Albert Bangert, Wade
Meadows, Lizzie Hancock, Al
bert Willis, Rom Nunn, Mark
Stevenson, Sam Dill, Steve Fow
ler, Tom Kehoe, and Closs
Barker.
Others were John Suter, Leo
Sultan, Inez Styron, Bradley
Hanff, Laura Suter, John Tolson,
Ernest Wood, Fred Whltty, Faith
Brock, Mamie Duffy, Dan Ro
berts, Fred Richardson, Nettie
Fowler, and Bradley Hanff.
John S. Long was president
of the board of trustees. On the
..bQ^r.d .with liim. were Chaides
S. Clark, E. h; Meadows, Alei ■
Miller, N, S. Richardson, P.
Holland, A. T. Jerkins, W, G.
Brinson, L. H. Cutler, William
Hollister, W. H. Oliver, H. C.
Whitehurst, William M, Watson,
Clement Manley, T. A. Green,
J, A. Meadows, H. R. Bryan,
F. C, Roberts, George Allen,
John D. Whltford, J. A, Gulon,
George Slover, F. Ulrich, and
J. B. Hughes.
Students still living will re
call with fondness a faculty com
prised of Gustavus Troy Adams,
Mary L. Allen, George W. Neal,
S. G. Bragaw, John Stanley
Thomas, F. E. Morton, Nel
lie Walker, Aurora Mace, Janet
Hollister, Mary D. Gooding and
Mrs. A. B. Ferebee.
Then as now, progressive
merchants figured It paid to ad
vertise, and New Bern’s leading
business firms welcomed the
chance to proclaim their wares
in the Institute’s booklet.
J. C. Whltty and Company let
it be known that It was head
quarters for hardware, agricul
tural Implements and chandlery
for boats, while Thomas C.
Howard boasted in print about
the excellence of his sectional
marine railway,
Barrington and Baxter al
lowed as how their specialties
were fine hand-sewed shoes and
gents underwear. In the absence
of more detailed information, we
would assume that the latter
were long-handled nifties that
warmed the wearer but added
little to his charm,
Mrs. S. H. Lane had a word
for the ladles. She em.ohasized
Fashionable Millinery, Includ
ing latest styles of hats and bon
nets trimmed and untrlmmed.
For the do-it-yourself gals of
that long ago era, she men
tioned the fact that she had
trimmings, ribbons, flowers,
feathers, notions, saxony and
zephyr wool on hand.
Henry L. Hall was the town's
book dealer, and J. B. Brown
was anxious to pass along the
word that he had a first class
barber shop. Dr. G. K. Bagby
admitted In the paid ad he had
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EAGER TO LEARN—Pictured are students in a botany cated here if efforts to bring the institution to New
class at Mount Olive College. Such scenes will be dupU- Bern bear fruit.
RETURNING TO ACTION—Jasper High school in years
past has produced many an outstanding girl basketball
player. Most of them will battle this year’s sextet next
week to help the Heart Fund. Left to right, front row,
are Dixie Letchworth Dixon, Kay Wetherington Mc
Coy. Jo Ann DeBruhl Conway, Reba Amerson Adams,
Ruth Adams Bremer, Claudette Ipock Amerson and
Mary Ann Hodnett Bass. Back row, left to right, are
Sarah Sugg Hill, June Adams, Joyce Forrest Duncan,
Esther Hodnett, Jean Pate Woolard, Betty Gwyn Wat
son Ipock, M^tle McDaniel, Nancy Ipock Wethering
ton and Lucille Adams Sutton—Photo by John H.
Baxter.