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Month: March 2019

Cornelia Strong: An “Unforgettable Individual”

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by Erin Lawrimore For 43 years, Cornelia Strong served as a professor of mathematics at the school now known as UNC Greensboro. During her time on campus, the school changed from State Normal to the North Carolina College for Women to the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina. She saw tremendous growth in […]

Educate a Woman: Virginia Terrell Lathrop

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by Suzanne Helms The 1920s was an age marked by dramatic social changes, rejecting traditions, huge economic growth, and, for many, an exhuberant lifestyle of drinking and dancing. Though many of the women of the 1923 graduating class of North Carolina College for Women (NCCW, and now UNC Greensboro) adopted the bobbed hairstyle of the […]

Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan: Encoded in the DNA of UNCG

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by Erin Lawrimore UNCG opened its doors in 1892 as a publicly-supported school for women from across North Carolina (and beyond) to receive a higher education. But it would not be until the 103rd year of the school’s existence that a woman would serve as the university’s highest-ranking administrator. On January 1, 1995, Dr. Patricia […]

The First Day of Class at State Normal, ca. 1892

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by Kathelene McCarty Smith When a current UNC Greensboro student walks down College Avenue, they see quite a different campus than an earlier student would have experienced. On October 5, 1892, the State Normal and Industrial School welcomed 176 students to the new girls college. There were only three building on the grounds – Main […]

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