UNC Pembroke will honor its heritage and the seven visionaries who founded the university with a Founders’ Day ceremony at 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 1.
The event to mark UNCP’s 136th anniversary will take place in front of Old Main on campus and is open to the public.
The program will celebrate the seven founders of Croatan Normal School, the forerunner institution to UNCP: Isaac Brayboy, James E. Dial Sr., Preston Locklear, W.L. Moore, James Oxendine, John J. Oxendine and Olin Oxendine. The event will also include a special student presentation about the founders, music from the Pembroke Singers and historical observations from Dr. Lawrence Locklear, director of the Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity and adjunct associate professor of American Indian Studies.
Tours of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian and American Indian heritage Center will also be available. Established as Croatan Normal School on March 7, 1887, UNCP began as the only state-supported American Indian college in the nation.
Family members of UNCP’s founders can contact Dr. Rebekah Lowry, director of Alumni Affairs, at rebekah.lowry@uncp.edu or 910.521.6333 if they plan to attend the event.
