[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Channing Hilliard Fries, Jr. A Rowan County native, Channing Hilliard Fries, Jr. first came to Nash County Schools in 1938 as a teacher at Nashville High School. He served his county in the Navy in World War II and returned to the...
Jennie Taylor Jennie Douglas Taylor was born in Charlotte, but worked throughout North Carolina in the fields of education and public health. She was a professor at Fayetteville State University in the 1930s, leaving that position to become the Public Health Educator...
Henry Ramsey, Jr. Though born in Florence, South Carolina, Henry Ramsey, Jr. lived his formative years in Rocky Mount in the racially segregated Deep South. Service in the US Air Force in the early 1950s took him to Southern California. There he earned his...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Rudolph Knight Tarboro native and Patillo High School honor graduate C. Rudolph Knight earned his B.S. in Business Administration from NC Central University. From East Carolina University he earned three Masters degrees: in...
John Sykes After earning his music degree from East Carolina University, John Sykes spent thirty years directing junior high or high school bands in Rocky Mount. His bands competed in state and national events and earned Superior ratings 22 times. His outstanding...
Rev. Dr. Thomas Walker Born in Edgecombe County after World War II, Thomas Lorenzo Walker graduated from G.W. Carver High School in 1966. He then earned a Batchelor of Theology from Shaw Divinity School and his Master and Doctoral degrees in Divinity from the Eastern...
