Spartan Stories

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Month: October 2018

Ghosts of UNCG: A Special, Spooky Spartan Story!

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by Hermann Trojanowski To celebrate Halloween, we repeat this blog post, originally posted in October 2012 by Hermann Trojanowski, who retired from Special Collections and University Archives in 2013. We hope you enjoy this extra spooky Spartan Story. Spencer Residence Hall Tales have long circulated about the ghosts that allegedly haunt the campus.  In the […]

Lucy Robertson: Academic and Activist

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by Kathelene McCarty Smith While Lucy Henderson Owen Robertson (1850 – 1930) was a member of the staff of State Normal and Industrial College (now UNC Greensboro) for only a short time, she made a lasting impression on the college, the city of Greensboro, and education in the South. Robertson was born in Warrenton, North […]

The Curry School: Practice Teaching on Campus

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by Erin Lawrimore On February 18, 1891, the North Carolina Legislature passed “An Act to Establish and Normal and Industrial School,” officially chartering the institution that would become UNC Greensboro. As the State Normal and Industrial School, the institution focused heavily on training women to become teachers in North Carolina’s public schools. As part of […]

History of the Virginia Dare Room (Alumni House)

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by Sean Mulligan In 1937, the Alumnae Hall at the Woman’s College (now UNCG) opened to much fanfare and excitement across the campus. Designed by Penrose V. Stout of Bronxville, New York, and modeled after Homewood in Baltimore, Maryland, it was originally called the Alumnae Hall. The name was changed to the Alumni House in […]

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