Charles L. Littel

(1885-1966) born at Bertrand, Phelps County, lived in Lincoln, North Platte, and several other communities. Educator, administrator, was one of the early pioneers of junior colleges in Washington and New Jersey, having served as founder and first superintendent of Centralia College (1925) and credited as co-founder of Yakima Valley (1928) and Grays Harbor (1930) Junior Colleges, and founder and first president of Junior College of Bergen County, Teaneck, New Jersey (1933), now a branch of Fairleigh Dickinson University; served as teacher, principal, and superintendent of schools in Nebraska, Washington, and New Jersey from 1902 to 1933 and college president from 1933 to 1951. Consult New York Times, April 10, 1949, Sec. 4, p. 11 and Hackensack /NJ/ Record obituary, March 4, 1966, p. 1 and Katharine Kemp, Centralia College 1925-1975 (1975) and Who Was Who in America, Vol 7 (1981) 353.

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