IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 660 
Recognizing the distinguished history of the Laurinburg Normal Industrial 
Institute. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 17, 2009 
Mr. KISSELL submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the distinguished history of the Laurinburg 
Normal Industrial Institute. 
Whereas the Laurinburg Normal Industrial Institute (re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Laurinburg Institute’’) was founded on 
September 15, 1904, in Laurinburg, North Carolina, by 
Emmanuel McDuffie and his wife Tinny Etheridge 
McDuffie at the request of Booker T. Washington of the 
Tuskegee Institute and William Edwards of the Snow 
Hill Institute; 
Whereas the Laurinburg Institute is the oldest of only four 
historically African-American boarding schools still re-
maining in the United States; 
Whereas the Laurinburg Institute was founded to help pro-
vide suitable education and training in the common pur-
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suits of life for African-Americans in the area of 
Laurinburg, North Carolina; 
Whereas, on September 15, 1906, Emmanuel McDuffie, J.H. 
Davis, and Robert Leach incorporated the Laurinburg 
Institute at Laurinburg, North Carolina, for the instruc-
tion of African-American teachers and youth in various 
academic branches of study and in the best methods of 
theoretical and practical industry applicable to agri-
culture and the mechanical arts; 
Whereas in 1956, the Laurinburg Institute began to build a 
new campus, integrated its faculty and student body, ex-
panded its foreign student program, which consisted of 
students from Russia, Africa, South America, Brazil, 
Portugal, the Caribbean, and other countries, and further 
solidified its nationally and internationally recognized 
athletic and music programs; 
Whereas since 1904, the Laurinburg Institute has graduated 
over 50,000 students, and since 1954 many graduates 
have finished college or other post-secondary training; 
Whereas the Laurinburg Institute’s distinguished alumni in-
clude Sir John Swann, the former Premiere of Bermuda 
and one of the first blacks to be a head of state in the 
Western Hemisphere, Joy Johnson, one of the first Afri-
can-Americans elected to the North Carolina General As-
sembly after the Reconstruction era, John Birks ‘‘Dizzy’’ 
Gillespie, an internationally renowned jazz trumpeter, 
and Charles ‘‘Charlie’’ Scott, the first African-American 
scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill, who later became a National Basketball As-
sociation (NBA) All-Star where he played for such teams 
as the Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles 
Lakers, and Phoenix Suns, winning an NBA champion-
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ship with the Boston Celtics and a gold medal in the 
1968 Summer Olympics; 
Whereas in 2005, the North Carolina General Assembly 
passed Senate Joint Resolution 1178 which honored the 
lives of Frank and Sammie McDuffie, who were the sec-
ond generation of McDuffie’s to serve as administrators 
of the Institute, and the work of the Laurinburg Institute 
in producing educators, humanitarians, athletes, and civil 
rights and leaders; 
Whereas in 2009, the Laurinburg Institute’s President and 
Chief Executive Officer is Frank ‘‘Bishop’’ McDuffie, Jr., 
and his daughter, Frances McDuffie, serves as the Insti-
tute’s Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and 
Whereas Frank ‘‘Bishop’’ McDuffie and Fraces McDuffie are 
the third generation of McDuffie administrators of the 
Laurinburg Institute: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the distinguished history of the 
Laurinburg Normal Industrial Institute; 
(2) acknowledges the Laurinburg Institute’s re-
markable contribution to the education of African- 
Americans and other people in the State of North 
Carolina and the Nation; and 
(3) commends the enterprise and dedication of 
the McDuffie family in creating and sustaining the 
Laurinburg Institute. 
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