Bowles, Elisabeth, 1990 December 4

File — Box: 2, Folder: 10

Identifier: 01-UA112-OH003- Series 2- File Folder 10

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Scope and Contents

Bowles recalls her struggle with polio, the changes in undergraduate and faculty life during her tenure, Curry School and the changes in School of Education curriculum. She describes the administrations of chancellors and deans, national and statewide teachers' organizations and changes in the teaching profession. Subjects: Undergraduate during the late 1940s, professors who influenced her, her struggle with polio in 1948 which caused her to miss a year of classes, her first teaching job at Curry School, the closing of Curry School in 1969, the changes in the education curriculum, the cafeteria workers strike against ARA.

Dates

1990 December 4

Creator

From the Collection: History, Department of (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Elisabeth Bowles (1928-2004) graduated from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in 1950 before it became The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She joined the School of Education faculty in 1956, first teaching at the Curry School and retiring in 1991. She was the author of A Good Beginning, a history of the first four decades of the University.