Carpenter, Gilbert, 1990 April 27

File — Box: 3, Folder: 4

Identifier: 01-UA112-OH003- Series 2- File Folder 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Carpenter describes growing up in Billings, Montana, specifically when Marian Anderson was a houseguest; undergraduate work at Stanford University; his military service in World War II and teaching at the University of Hawaii and Columbia University. He discusses the administrations of Vice Chancellor Mereb Mossman and Chancellors Otis A. Singletary and William E. Moran and his perceptions of the decrease in quality of students, faculty and the art department. He talks about coeducation, his philosophy of teaching art, administrative growth, the decisions that lessened the humanities at UNCG and the presence of the FBI on local campuses during the Vietnam Era. Subjects: His family and growing up in Montana, working as an engineer at Douglas Aircraft just before Pearl Harbor, being drafted into the army, going to France right after WWII, coming to UNCG, Mereb Mossman, Art Department, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Chancellors Ferguson and Singletary.

Dates

1990 April 27

Creator

From the Collection: History, Department of (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Artist Gilbert F. "Bert" Carpenter (1920-2003) was a professor of art beginning in 1963, when The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) was known as the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. He retired in 1989 as emeritus professor of art and director of Weatherspoon Art Gallery.