[3] Pullen years later wrote to historian Burke Davis about his 8 weeks as a recruit at Paris Island: "The days were exceedingly hot and very long and busy, but we could get together after chow time in the evenings and walk around the limited space

Pullen and his new friend Lewis Puller in September 1918 were assigned to the non-commissioned officer training school at Paris Island as both were college graduates.

Both Puller and Pullen applied and were accepted to Officer Training Camp starting January 1919 at Marine Barracks Quantico.

[2] Pullen became a Latin teacher and later assistant principal at Martinsville High School, Virginia.

During the William Preston Lane Jr. governorship Pullen was responsible for two hundred new buildings or additions, and the average teacher wages increased 53 percent.

During the post-Sputnik fear that the United States was behind the Soviet education system in terms of math and science Maryland Public Schools.

A Columbia University professor of education spoke for some commission and approved the guiding philosophy of Pullen and his predecessor that teachers were to excite students about learning and shape them for society.

A south leaning newspaper Hopkinsville Kentucky New Era wrote: Maryland state teachers colleges have bowed to racial integration but utterances from the Deep South continue the theme of a fight to the finish over the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the touchy question.

for the Advancement of Colored People called for complete school integration "by not later that September 1956" The Maryland State Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the teacher colleges met at Baltimore yesterday and unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that "racial segregation is hereby abolished" Dr. Thomas G. Pullen Jr. superintendent of Maryland schools proposed the resolution.

"[12] Pullen directed the development of educational television, dealt with the school-age population explosion of the 1950s and 60's, and supervised the desegregation of schools.

[2][15] During the William Preston Lane Jr. governorship Pullen was responsible for two hundred new buildings or additions, and the average teacher wages increased 53 percent.

[8] A Columbia University professor of education spoke for some commission and approved the guiding philosophy of Pullen and his predecessor — that teachers were to excite students about learning and shape them for society.

[16][17] Even though the Warfield Plan was endorsed by Governor J. Millard Tawes, and the State Comptroller Louis L. Goldstein Pullen and his board kept the schools independent.

Pullen continued his involvement as a trustee and his goals were realized in the fall of 1971 when the new Academic Center opened and the university received full regional accreditation.