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Farmerettes

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Farmerettes

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by Erin Lawrimore On April 6, 1917, the United Stated officially entered World War I. With the institutional motto of “Service,” the women of the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) sought ways to contribute to the war efforts. Students came together to observe meatless and wheatless days, take classes in food conservation, raise […]

Martha Blakeney Hodges: From Farmerette to First Lady of North Carolina

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by Kathelene McCarty Smith Martha Blakeney Hodges Little did Martha Blakeney realize when she first visited the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion during the 1940s, that one day she would find herself in residence as the First Lady of the state. One of six daughters of a Monroe, North Carolina, landowner, Martha Blakeney sought higher education […]

Farming for Uncle Sam

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by Erin Lawrimore On April 6, 1917, the United Stated officially entered World War I. With the institutional motto of “Service,” the women of the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) sought ways to contribute to the war efforts. Students came together to observe meatless and wheatless days, take classes in food conservation, raise […]

The Freshman Experience

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by Rachel Sanders Today’s post was written by Rachel Sanders, a senior history major who works in the Special Collections and University Archives.  Rachel is also chair of the Student Libraries’ Advisory Council and works with the Libraries’ Digital Projects on the grant “Preserving Local History: A Field-Based Digitization Pilot Project.”  Being a freshman in […]

Farming and Feeding the Campus

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by Erin Lawrimore Looking at the current site of the Quad, you might never guess that it was once the home to a campus farm and dairy barn that supplied State Normal (now UNCG) with milk, pork, and produce. But in 1897 Charles Duncan McIver established the first campus farm on a newly-acquired plot of […]

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