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Month: January 2016

Jazzing-Up the Campus with Ray Gariglio

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by Anne Myers This blog post was authored by Anne Myers, Library and Information Studies practicum student at the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, December 2015. Ray Gariglio, 1975  Raymond J. Gariglio came to UNCG in 1966 as a Professor of Music and became the bandmaster for all UNCG performing band ensembles, […]

Co-education: Through a Woman’s Eyes

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by Brittany Hedrick This blog post was written by Brittany Hedrick, an undergraduate history department intern who worked in University Archives in Fall 2015. As part of her internship, she also conducted two oral history interviews — one for the University Archives’ Institutional Memory Project and one for the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical […]

Confronting the AIDS epidemic at UNCG

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by Sean Mulligan The AIDS epidemic in the United States officially began in June 1981, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported several unusual medical cases in five homosexual men from Los Angeles. Initially termed gay-related immune deficiency (GRID) for its prevalence to appear in homosexuals, the disease was reclassified in August 1982 […]

Dr. Anna Maria Gove, Lady Doctress

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When it came time to form the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) in 1891, student health was of the utmost importance.  And since the student body was comprised of young women, President Charles Duncan McIver wanted to provide the students with a campus physician who could care for all their needs.  Miriam Bitting […]

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