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Professor Ivy and His New Experiment: Beaufort Art Colony

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by Suzanne Helms “Woman’s College Trying New Experiment On Coast,” reported the Greensboro Daily News in June of 1938. Beginning in the early 1930s, the North Carolina College for Women (now UNC Greensboro) offered a course in marine science for a select group of students. Each summer, students applied to attend the course in Beaufort, […]

Summer Studies at the Shore

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by Erin Lawrimore On June 15, 1931, Archie D. Shaftesbury, Associate Professor of Zoology at the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG) wrote Mary Taylor Moor, the school’s registrar, regarding a proposal “to conduct a three weeks summer term in zoology at Beaufort during this and succeeding summers.” Shaftesbury emphasized that “it is our […]

Woman’s College and the Burnsville School of Fine Arts

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by Erin Lawrimore On July 21, 1947, the curtains opened on a new venture for the Woman’s College – the Burnsville School of Drama. Running for six weeks in the North Carolina mountain town of Burnsville (about 40 miles northwest of Asheville), the school was a partnership between WC and Burnsville Playhouse, Inc., a local […]

“Opportunity Doesn’t Take 3 Months Off”: Early Summer School on Campus

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by Kathelene McCarty Smith Summer Session Brochure Summer classes have existed on The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) campus since 1898, when Miss Viola Boddie began to teach a summer course in Latin because many of her students feared that they might have to repeat the class during their senior year.  However, the […]

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