{"id":2313,"date":"2017-06-16T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2017-06-16T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:34:38","slug":"vintage-north-carolina-fire-college-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/vintage-north-carolina-fire-college-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage North Carolina Fire College Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your Friday enjoyment, here&#8217;s a vintage certificate of completion from the North Carolina Fire College, awarded to Raleigh Fire Department firefighter J. B. Keeter, after completed the 1942 Lecture Course for Officers and Members. (Here&#8217;s a neat video from the 1967 college, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/photos\/weblog\/pivot\/entry.php?id=4753\">blogged about in 2011<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Believe John B. &#8220;Jack&#8221; Keeter was a Captain by that time. He&#8217;d later be appointed Assistant Fire Chief, and then Fire Chief, where he served the longest of any Chief of Department in Raleigh&#8217;s history, from 1955 to 1973. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/raleigh\/history\/personnel\/chiefs.shtml\">See more biographical information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This artifact comes courtesy of Raleigh Fire Department Captain Tim Pearce, and, sadly, who passed away last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-06-16-college.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2315\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-06-16-collegea.jpg\" alt=\"2017-06-16-collegea\" width=\"600\" height=\"779\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-06-16-collegea.jpg 600w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-06-16-collegea-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-north-carolina-fire-college-certificate%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"2313\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage North Carolina Fire College Certificate\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-north-carolina-fire-college-certificate%2F&text=Vintage+North+Carolina+Fire+College+Certificate\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"2313\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage North Carolina Fire College Certificate\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-north-carolina-fire-college-certificate%2F&description=Vintage+North+Carolina+Fire+College+Certificate\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"2313\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage North Carolina Fire College Certificate\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your Friday enjoyment, here&#8217;s a vintage certificate of completion from the North Carolina Fire College, awarded to Raleigh Fire Department firefighter J. 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