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Abstract The Alumni Association was create in 1893 at the request of founding president Charles Duncan McIver who wished to use it as means to establish a loan fund for need students. Since then, the Association has grown significantly and in 1937 constructed a permanent residence on the campus, called the Alumni House. There has also be a long standing debate over the role and relationships with the Alumni Association and the university.This collection consists of alumni biographical...

Abstract Westray Battle Boyce (1901 - 1972), of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, served as part of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corp (WAAC) and Women's Army Corp (WAC) from 1942 to 1947. She served under General Eisenhower in North Africa and is the first woman to have received the Legion of Merit medal. In 1945, she succeeded Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby as director of the WAC and served as its second director until her retirement from military service in 1947.Collection contains copies of letters...

Abstract The collection includes materials from Margaret Reaves McGregor Coleman, documenting her time as a student at the North Carolina College for Women from 1925-1929, her marriage to Howard Irwin McGregor and Joseph Witt Coleman, Jr., and her family history. The collection includes correspondence, school notebooks, address books, calendars, photographs, and financial materials.Margaret Elizabeth Reaves McGregor Coleman was born in Bolivar, Tennessee, to Edmund Hugh Reaves and Emily...

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Daphine Doster was a 1927 alumna of the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG). She was later a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II and afterwards at Johns Hopkins, Berea College, the University of Arkansas, and the US Public Health Service.

The Daphine Doster Papers date from 1909 to 1987 and contain biographical material, correspondence, newspaper clippings, nursing reports and studies, publications, slides, and speeches/presentations.

Abstract Janet Swanson Lovell attended the Woman's College of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro or UNCG) from 1960-1964. Lovell received her Bachelor's of Science in physical education in 1964, and completed her post-graduate studies at the University of Virginia.The collection includes teaching materials, such as exams and tests, dance and exercise instructions, and an anatomy folder. The collection also contains student materials, alumni directories,...

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Annie Furman Parham graduated from The College for Women at Greensboro in 1942. That same year, she was hired as a clerk for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners. She was an Assistant County Manager when she retired in 1991.

The 1937 Insurance Survey for Guilford County Board of Commissioners that was donated by her and contains the insurance value of schools and building in Guilford County during that time.

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Winifred Reid, Rebekah McClain Stroupe, and Eulalie Elliott Reid all attended UNCG in its earlier incarnations, the State Normal and Industrial School and the North Carolina College for Women. This collection includes a 1988 letter from Winifred Reid, a 1919 letter from Stroupe, and a 1928 letter from Reid, sharing their memories of the school.

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Katherine Yoder Scharrer was a member of the graduating class of 1922 at the North Carolina College for Women (NCCW), now known as UNCG. This collection dates from 1923 to 1977 and primarily consists of correspondence to Scharrer from her husband Andrew (Andy) Scharrer and her mother Emily Manetta Asbury Yoder.

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The Jane Eloise Helms Vance Papers contains materials used or created by Vance during her time as a student at the Woman's College of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro or UNCG) from 1962-1966.

The collection contains correspondence, educational materials, newspaper clippings and publications, and her diploma and certificates.