Spartan Stories

Tales from the UNCG University Archives

by Scott Hinshaw Charles D. McIver (left) and his younger brother William in 1865  The founder and first president of our university, Charles D. McIver, left a wealth of information behind when he died suddenly in 1906 on a train returning from Raleigh to Greensboro. Among his more formal papers dealing with his work as […]

by Kathelene McCarty Smith Graduating Class of the State Normal and Industrial School, 1893 Lina McDonald is not pictured Working at the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives is always interesting. Recently, I came across one of the earliest campus mysteries – the tragic accident of a student who lost her life several […]

by Suzanne Helms Dr. Elisabeth Anna Marie Jastrow was an Associate Professor of Art History at Woman’s College (WC) of the University of North Carolina (now UNC Greensboro) from 1941 until her retirement in 1961. Though she spent the last twenty years of her career teaching art history, her true passion was classical archeology. Elisabeth […]

 
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