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Sarah Clement was born in Mocksville, N.C. and graduated from East Carolina in 1915. She taught public school in Oxford, NC for forty years and bequeathed $50,000 to the school in her will. In her honor, the ten-story Clement Hall was named in her memory. Opened in 1969, Clement was the third high-rise dorm constructed during the late 1960s campus expansion.
- Other names
- Clement Dormitory
- Built
- 1969
- Construction cost
- $1.4 million
- Gross sq. ft.
- 86,044
- Assignable sq. ft.
- 57,997
- Architects
- Stinson, Hall, Hines, Winston
- Namesake
- Sarah Clement (1894-1970), a native of Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina graduated from East Carolina University in 1915. In 1920, she began teaching third grade at Credle Elementary School in Oxford, NC where she remained until her retirement in 1960. Clement bequeathed $50,000 in her will to establish a student loan fund.
- History
- The building was dedicated on June 11, 1972. Clement building was the third of the high rise dormitories constructed as part of the 1967 capital improvements appropriation. Greene and White are the other two dormitories built at the time. This modern, flat roofed building is ten stories high and accommodates 400 students.
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