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Month: November 2018

Mary Settle Sharpe: Keen in Intelligence, Kindly at Heart, and Democratic in Sympathy

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by Kathelene McCarty Smith Mary Settle Sharpe (1863-1944) was a woman ahead of her time, in both education and politics. She was an early member of the faculty of State Normal and Industrial College (UNC Greensboro) and was also the first woman nominated for public office in the state of North Carolina after the ratification […]

100 Years Later: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 hits State Normal

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by Erin Lawrimore In 1918, an influenza pandemic began to spread across the globe. In the U.S., about 28% of the population became infected, and 500,000 to 675,000 people died over the course the next two years. The campus of the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) was, of course, not immune to this […]

The Library as a Hub of Learning (Part Three)

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Since the school’s founding in 1892, the library has played a key role in supporting faculty research and student learning.  From its humble beginnings in a small classroom to its current prominent location at the center of campus, the library has sought to keep pace with emerging scholarly trends, changing researcher needs, evolving uses of technology, […]

Lettie Hamlett Rogers – An Alumna, Author, and Instructor with International Roots

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by Patrick Dollar Lettie Hamlett Rogers writing, 1946. Lettie Hamlett Rogers, who both attended and taught at Woman’s College (now UNC Greensboro), led an extraordinary and varied life, often using her experiences to fuel her writings. Rogers was born in Suzhou (or Soochow), China, on September 16, 1917, to the missionaries Reverend P.W. Hamlett and […]

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