By Suzanne Helms “K is for kneel. I like to kneel down and smell the roses.” (Rowlett) Margaret Rowlett (1897-1963), alumna of North Carolina College for Women (NCCW, now UNCG), was born in Alabama and grew up in Kannapolis, North Carolina, just northeast of Charlotte. An accomplished artist and illustrator later in life, Rowlett described […]
Early advocate for the education of young women in North Carolina, Charles Duncan McIver, was just getting his fledgling college for women off the ground in the early 1890s. And Mary Bayard Morgan [Wootten] (1875-1959), a future student, was in search of a steady income to support herself. Like many women in the late 19th […]
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 Mrs. Lettie Hamlett. […]
