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James Wells Younge

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Dr. James "Jimmy" Wells Younge Jr. (August 19, 1918 – September 17, 1991) was an American Hall of Fame Tennis Coach, a member of the United States Armed Forces during World War II, celebrated educator, and published author.

James was the only child born to the late Dr. James Wells and Mrs. Pearl Shine Younge in Greenville, Tennessee and grew up on Salisbury, North Carolina. After graduating high school he went on to attend Virginia College, graduating in 1940.

Younge served in the Armed Forces during the Second World War. He was amongst the 317th Medical Battalion. Younge held an E5 rankin and was likely to have done his service in Italy from 1940 to 1944.

Younge's service jacket display service bars, a service stripe, a buffalo badge, and many other varying patches that indicate achievement. Overseas, service bars are worn on the Army service uniform to represent the cumulative amount of time spent overseas. Each stripe is representative of 6 months. A service stripe, commonly called a hash mark, is a decoration of the United States military which is presented to members of the U.S. Army to denote their length of service. The army awards each stripe per three years of honorable service.

Following Younge's service in the army he had plans of entering into medical school, but instead took a teaching position at Morristown College, Morristown, Tennesse. He did however continue on furthering his education and in 1949 graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana with a Masterrs of Science in Physical Education degree. Then continuing further, in 1967 he received the Doctor of Educating degree in Educational Administration from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Younge was the tennis coach at North Carolina College and North Carolina Central University from 1949 to 1975.[1].During this time he held several different titles within the athletics department. Within the 26 years Dr. Younge spent coaching, the Eagles won five CIAA championships, four MEAC championships, and one NCAA Eastern Regional championship. In 1959 Dr. Younge was named coach of the year in the CIAA, 1970 and 1971 in NAIA, and in 1975 by the MEAC[2]

He was celebrated as an educator and for his successes, in 1968 the United States, State Department named him head of the Upward Bound Program for the nation of Liberia in West Africa. From 1975 to 1978, Younge served as interim commissioner for the Mid-Eastern Atlantic Conference (MEAC) ad in 1979, he served as MEAC special consultant to the Commission. In 1982-83 he served as Interim President at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. His devotion and service to the Department of Physical Education and Recreation, including chairman, led to the creation of the J.W. Younge Lecture Series and to Dr. Younge’s induction into the NCCU Athletic and CIAA Hall of Fame.

Within his personal life he held a large relative base throughout the North Carolina region. When he returned home to North Carolina from the war, he settled down as well and got married. Dr. Younge was married to Eugenia McManus Younge in late July 1944 in Monroe, North Carolina. Together they had one child, James Wells Younge III.

During Younge's later years as an educator he began writing and in 1989 published his first and only written work Chasing the Rainbow. It is a coming of age story with a detailed accounting of his life and journey to achieving the American dream as an African-American growing up in the 1920s within America.

References[edit]

  1. "Dr. James W. Younge Tennis Courts". NCCU. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. "Dr. James W. Younge Tennis Courts". EaglePride. NCCU. Retrieved 2 November 2021.


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