Spartan Stories

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Month: March 2015

Constance Han-Jun Lam (Class of 1933): Humanitarian and Heroine

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by Kathelene McCarty Smith March is Women’s History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month feature alumni from the Woman’s College, North Carolina College for Women, or State Normal eras.  Constance Lam Against the increasingly violent backdrop of war-torn China, Constance Lam became a humanitarian and a heroine. A native of Canton, China, Lam’s […]

Physician, Professor, and Medical Missionary Annie V. Scott (class of 1914)

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by Erin Lawrimore March is Women’s History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month feature alumni from the Woman’s College, North Carolina College for Women, or State Normal eras.  Greensboro native Annie Vellna Scott arrived at State Normal and Industrial College in Fall 1910 at the age of 21. She was an active student […]

Flying the Friendly Skies with Alumnae Phyllis Sheeran (class of 1944)

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by Kathelene McCarty Smith March is Women’s History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month feature alumni from the Woman’s College, North Carolina College for Women, or State Normal eras.  Phyllis Sheeran Phyllis Sheeran (Class of 1944), a native of Virginia, caught the “flying bug” quickly after graduating from Woman’s College of the University […]

Sister Mary Michel Boulus (class of 1947): Educational Leader

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by Erin Lawrimore March is Women’s History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month will feature alumni from the Woman’s College, North Carolina College for Women, or State Normal eras.  The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Jumela Ann Boulus arrived at the Woman’s College from her home in China Grove, NC in the Fall of […]

Trailblazing “Human Computer” Virginia Tucker (class of 1930)

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by Erin Lawrimore March is Women’s History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month will feature alumni from the Woman’s College, North Carolina College for Women, or State Normal eras.  Virginia Layden “Ginna” Tucker of Hertford, NC, was a North Carolina College for Women (NCCW, now UNCG) graduate whose pioneering work in aeronautics and […]

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