{"id":439,"date":"2010-01-24T04:10:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/?page_id=439"},"modified":"2015-03-08T01:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T07:20:43","slug":"mcdonald-re-elected-principal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/home\/mcdonald-re-elected-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald Re-Elected Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roanoke Beacon<br \/>\n23 Jun 1899<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Plymouth State Normal School, colored, held on Monday, Prof. <strong>Jno. W. MCDONALD<\/strong> was re-elected Principal.\u00c2\u00a0 This, we think, was a worthy compliment to a worthy man.\u00c2\u00a0 Aside from the fact that John MCDONALD is a native of this town, who spends his time, money and talent in building up this town morally, religiously and educationally, he is a man of high character, and is acknowledged one of the leaders of education, not only by his own race but by the State, as will be seen from the fact that he has been employed by the State Board of Education to hold Institutes for colored teachers throughout the State.\u00c2\u00a0 In this his associates are Professors. <strong>S.G. ATKINS, E.E. SMITH<\/strong>, and <strong>W.F. FONVILLE<\/strong>. Prof. MCDONALD is a graduate of Livingstone  College, class of \u00e2\u20ac\u212295, upon whom it has recently conferred the degree of Master of Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roanoke Beacon 23 Jun 1899 At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Plymouth State Normal School, colored, held on Monday, Prof. Jno. W. MCDONALD was re-elected Principal.\u00c2\u00a0 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/home\/mcdonald-re-elected-principal\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-439","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}