The author would like to thank Pat Pertalion, Douglas Ray, Ken White, Leonard Darby, John Shearin, and Edgar Loessin for their contributions to this chapter.

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Bratton, Mary Jo Jackson.  East Carolina University The Formative Years, 1907-1982. 

            East Carolina University Alumni Association: Greenville, North Carolina, 1986.

The Nomination of Edgar R. Loessin for the Oliver Max Gardner Award  East Carolina

University: Greenville, North Carolina, 1986.