Administration
The first principal of Rose was Orren Edwards Dowd. Dowd had served as principal of Greenville High School from 1943 until the opening of Rose in 1957, and continued to serve at Rose until c. 1961. Guy T. Swain served as principal from c. 1963 to c. 1966. T.S. Whitney served as principal c. 1967.
Edward Nelson Warren (November 9, 1926-April 24, 2003) served as principal from c. 1967 to c. 1974. After serving as principal at Rose, he went on to serve in the North Carolina General Assembly for twenty-two years, the longest of any state legislator from Pitt County. He served as a representative for ten years, and as a senator for twelve years, for a total of twenty-two years. In 2003, he was elected to the East Carolina University Board of Trustees but died prior to being able to take office. The Edward Nelson Warren Life Sciences Building on East Carolina's medical campus is named in his honor (Pitt County Chronicles, Vol. II, p. 803).
Robert J. Alligood served as principal from c. 1971 to c. 1977, and Frank Davenport served from 1977 to 1979. Former principals since the 1980s have included Howard Hurt (1979–1985), B. Patrick Austin (1985–1993), Shirley Carraway (1993–1997), and Barbara Mallory (1997–2001).
After Hurt's departure in 1985, he later served as associate superintendent in the Rowan-Salisbury Schools. Hurt, a native of West Virginia, had once played on the basketball team of Duke University.
B. Patrick Austin, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began his career as an English teacher, later serving in administrative roles in Wake County and Dare County. While at Rose, Austin began doctoral studies in educational leadership at East Carolina University, later transferring to the program at Campbell University. Austin resigned from Rose at the end of the 1992-1993 school year, announcing that he was taking a position at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.(A minor footnote: Like the namesake of the school, Austin was a member of Jarvis United Methodist Church).
Rose was served by an interim transitional team after Austin's departure, which included, among others, the late Bernard Haselrig. Upon Carraway's appointment in 1993, she became both the first female and first African-American to serve as principal at Rose. Carraway served at the district level in Pitt County after her departure from Rose. From 2003 to 2007, she served as the superintendent of Orange County Schools near Chapel Hill. She is celebrated as one of the outstanding and most successful female alumni of the School of Education at East Carolina University, where she earned all of her degrees, including her doctorate in educational leadership. After her retirement from Orange County Schools, she returned to Greenville and is now working with the Second Life early college pilot program, a collaboration between Pitt County Schools and East Carolina University.
Dr. Mallory, who served at the state level in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction after her departure from Rose, is now a professor of educational leadership at Georgia Southern University, and has been published in various professional journals for school leaders. Including her service as an English instructor (which began at Rose in the mid 1970s), Media Center Coordinator, Assistant Principal, and Principal, she probably has the most collective experience at Rose of any recent principal. In 1999, she was one of five finalists for Wachovia Principal of the Year in North Carolina. Mallory earned her doctorate in educational leadership from East Carolina University.
Dr. George Frazier, who came to Rose from the Alamance-Burlington School System in 2001. Frazier had spent many years at Western Guilford High School, and had also served in the Durham school district as principal of Hillside High School. Serving for almost a decade, he has had the longest term of service of any principal in Rose's history. He will retire on August 31, 2010.
In July 2010, Charlie Langley was designated to succeed Frazier on September 1, 2010. He is the first known alumnus of Rose to serve as principal. He began his teaching career in 1992 at Ayden Middle School and transferred the next fall to E. B. Aycock Middle School. In the fall of 1997, Langley was appointed assistant principal at Rose where he remained until 1999. Langley was appointed to his first principal role at A. G. Cox Middle School beginning with the 1999-2000 school year and stayed until being transferred to C. M. Eppes Middle School (located on the former South Elm Street campus of Rose High) in 2004, where he will have served six years upon the commencement of his principalship at Rose. In 2004, Langley was named Pitt County Schools’ Principal of the Year.
All of Rose's known principals are presented here in chronological order. Clarification is needed of dates and names from the end of Dowd's administration to the end of Davenport's administration and the beginning of Hurt's:
- Orren E. Dowd 1957-1961 (4 years?, 18 years combined with principalship at former Greenville High School)
- ??? 1961-1963
- Guy T. Swain 1963-1966? (3 years?)
- ??? 1966-1967
- Edward Warren 1967-1971? (4 years?)
- Robert J. Alligood 1971?-1977? (6 years)
- Frank Davenport 1977?-1978? (2 years?)
- ??? 1978-1979
- Howard Hurt 1979-1985 (6 years)
- B. Patrick Austin 1985-1993 (8 years)
- Shirley Caraway 1993-1997 (4 years, first woman, first African-American)
- Barbara Mallory 1997-2001 (4 years)
- George Frazier 2001-2010 (9 years, first African-American male)
- Charlie Langley 2010–present
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