Seventy-five years ago today, the Daily Times reported Darden High School graduates were attending college at Howard University, N.C. College [North Carolina Central University], A&T College [North Carolina State A&T University], Shaw University, Johnson C. Smith University, Barber-Scotia College, Virginia State University, West Virginia State University, Saint Augustine’s College [now University], Temple University, Cortez Peters Business School, and Winston-Salem Teachers College [now Winston-Salem State University.]

Wilson Daily Times, 15 September 1948.

 

Wilson Daily Times, 15 September 1948.

Howard University

• Doris V. Smith
• Mary Frances Diggs (1930-1971), daughter of Edgar and Mary Grant Diggs
• Charles Seville Plater (1929), son of Simon T. and Ruth Jones Plater
• Thomas Levi Peacock(1928), son of Levi and Eloise Reavis Peacock
• Norma Adelaide Carter Murphy (1931-), daughter of Luke and Eunice Godette Carter
• Hoover Curtis Bowens (1928-2007), son of Jacob and Flossie Cobb Bowens

A&T College

• Edward Kerphew Harris (1930-2007), son of Benjamin and Pauline Artis Harris
• Winford Lee Morgan (1931-2000), son of James and Addie Fisher Morgan
• Wade Nicholas Lassiter (1928-??) and Harvey Green Lassiter (1926-1998), sons of Jesse C.K. and Lessie Dew Lassiter
• Harold Cannady
• Leonard Elroy Barnes Jr. (1929-1967), son of Leonard E. and Beatrice Taylor Barnes
• Walter Rufus Stephens (1926-2014), son of James H. and Parnella Jackson Stephens
• James Thomas Jones (1927-2011) and John Wesley Jones (1925-2004), sons of Wesley and Martha Taylor Jones

From the 1951 edition of The Ayantee, the yearbook of North Carolina State A.&T. University.

N.C. College [now N.C. Central University]

• Helen Woodard
• Ralph Cornell Gay (1928-1992), son of Albert and Annie Bell Jacobs Gay
• James Henry Spivey Jr. (1930-??) and Glenda Vermell Spivey Middleton (1927-2006), children of James H. and Mary Clark Spivey
• Eva Elnora Coley Jarrett Oxendine (1929-), daughter of David H. and Eva Speight Coley
• Preston Walter Diggs (1928-), son of Edgar and Mary Grant Diggs
• Hattie Moye Floyd (1929-1985), daughter of Ambrose and Mattie Moye Floyd
• Thomas Dawson
• Laura Mae Murphy Baker (1925-1988), daughter of Clarence and Mittie Wilkes Murphy
• Victoria Whitehead McCray (1928-2017), daughter of John H. and Victoria Ennis Whitehead

Shaw University

• James L. Nicholson Jr. (1929-2018), son of James and Celestia Nicholson
• Donnie L. Joyner Freeman (1928-), daughter of Eddie and Annie Wynn Joyner
• Eva L. Carter (1928-2017), daughter of Willam and Eva Overton Carter
• Doug Melton 
• Nathaniel Gray Hodges (1929-), son of Nathaniel and Bessie Sutton Hodges
• Helen Harris
• R.J. Dancy

J.C. Smith

• Mamie Ruth Ellis (1930-2004), daughter of Oscar and Mamie Bynum Ellis
• Roderick Taylor Jr. (1928), son of Roderick and Mary J. Pender Taylor
• Ellis Brown Jr. (1921-1989), son of Ellis and Margaret Scarborough Brown

Barber-Scotia

• Ann Battle
• Van Royall
• Doris Joyner
• Pauline Deloris Harris (1927-), daughter of Benjamin A. and Pauline Artis Harris

Virginia State

• Annie Miller Stokes (1930-), daughter of James and Viola Reese Stokes
• Frances Williams 

West Virginia State

• Charles Edwin Hines (1929-), son of Wesley and Mary Ellis Hines
• Ruby Margaret Freeman Lassiter (1930-2013), daughter of Julius F., Jr., and Pattie Hagans Freeman

Saint Augustine

• Mary Knight
• Richard Barnes
• Virginia Ward
• Margaret Evangeline Speight Williams (1929-1998), daughter of Theodore and Marie Thomas Speight
• Marian Anderson 

Livingstone College

• Trumiller Wimberly
• Christine Snow

Temple University

• Katheryn Spells (1927-2004), daughter of Neros and Nancy Taylor Spells

Cortez Peters Business School

• Beatrice McNeil (1928-2007), daughter of Matthew and Ola Belle Jiggette McNeil
• Ozie L. Pender (1928-2010), daughter of Albert and Mary Pender

Winston-Salem Teachers College

• Agnes Hoskins (1929-), daughter of Lonnie and Gertrude Simms Hoskins
• Charity Wells (1930-1978), daughter of Willie and Mamie Holland Wells
• Bertha Cobb