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Who knew that the class of 1915 would produce two of the most prominent alums in ECU’s history? Out of a class of 41 students, Ernest McFarlandwould go on to be the governor of Arizona, 1955-1959. His political career also included serving as a United States Senator from 1941-1953 andserving on the Arizona supreme court from 1964-1970.Robert S. Kerr was in the same graduating class of 1915. Kerr served as the governor of Oklahomafrom 1943-1947. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1948 and served until his death onJan. 1, 1963. Kerr’s chief legacy for the state of Oklahoma is a series of water projects and damsthat made the Arkansas River into a navigable inland waterway system beginning at the Tulsa Portof Catoosa and going to the Gulf of Mexico. He died before he saw the commission’s work come tofruition as the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
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James Marcus Gordon was selected as the second president of East Central State NormalSchool on May 20, 1916. Gordon had previously served as the dean of Trinity University inWaxahachie, Texas. Gordon’s term is marked by the effects WWI had on campus. He is creditedwith the establishment of a Student Army Training Corps on campus that helped keep thecollege’s doors open and the commissioning of the memorial gateway in front of Science Hall thatis dedicated to the ECU students who died in the war. President Gordon served at ECSNS untilJune 1, 1920, at which time he took the position as president at Henry Kendall College in Tulsa.
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The president’s home was built in 1918. Throughout the years the home was occupied bypresidents Gordon, Linscheid, Spencer, Wagner and Cole.During the late 1990s, the president’s home wasremodeled and a 3,200 foot expansion was added. OnSept. 2, 1999, the former home was rededicated as theSterling L. Williams Foundation and Alumni Center whichnow houses the of 
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