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Month: October 2022

Alumna Spotlight on Charlesanna Fox

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Post date October 31, 2022
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The great “manpower” needs during World War II created openings for women in the U.S. military to replace men who were in noncombat positions. In addition to the Army and Navy Nurse Corps, for the first time women were actively recruited for military branches created specifically for them. The Woman’s College of the University of […]

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Turn on McIver: A Student-Led Drive to Relight the Mural on the McIver Building

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Post date October 4, 2022
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In an earlier blog post, we discussed professor and artist, Joseph H. Cox’s, McIver Building mural and its controversial lighting as well as the many changes that occurred to the lighting at the beginning of the McIver Building’s life on UNCG’s campus. In this post, we’ll follow up on what happened after the lights went […]

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