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Dennis Hargrove Cooke (February 23, 1904 – March 1982) was the fourth president of what is now
East Carolina University East Carolina University (ECU) is a public university, public research university in Greenville, North Carolina. It is the fourth largest university in North Carolina. Founded on March 8, 1907, as a Normal school, teacher training school, East ...
. He was born on February 23, 1904, in
Maiden, North Carolina Maiden is a town in Catawba and Lincoln counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 3,310 at the 2010 census. Maiden was the first public high school in the state with an observatory and is currently home to an Apple iCloud Da ...
. Dr. Cooke received the
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degree from
Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in 1925. He also earned an
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degree from Duke in 1928. He was a teaching fellow at Duke University in 1928–29, and a teaching fellow at
Peabody College Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development (also known as Vanderbilt Peabody College, Peabody College, or simply Peabody) is the education school of Vanderbilt University, a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. ...
in 1929–30. He then received a
doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...
in 1930 from Peabody College. Before becoming president, Cooke served as an elementary
school principal A head master, head instructor, bureaucrat, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the teacher, staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school ...
, high school principal,
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, and chairman of the Department of Educational Administration. Cooke assumed his duties at East Carolina Teachers College on August 1, 1946, and announced his resignation in May 1947.


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Presidents of East Carolina University Duke University alumni Duke University faculty 1904 births 1982 deaths People from Maiden, North Carolina 20th-century American academics {{US-academic-administrator-1900s-stub