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SU Founders' Day 140
SU Founders' Day 140

SU Founders

 

 

 

 

 

Octavia Clark

 

First music teacher

First registrar

Wife of Joseph S. Clark

 

 

 

 

 

John S. Jones

 

First dean

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph S. Clark

First president of Southern University

 

Founders' Day Speech, 1932

Founders' Day Speech, 1937

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emma Mayberry

First director of home economics

 

 

 

 

 

James B. Moore

First director of industrial arts

*Photos are courtesy of the John B. Cade Library Archives and Manuscripts Department.