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Edna Annette Forney attended the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) from 1903 to 1908.

The scrapbook is annotated throughout with black ink. The book contains newspaper clippings, a handwritten history of the College, autographs and programs.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 February 1999; various photographs of Fotrune’s Women’s Army Corps service as an Army Air Force Service Pilot, 1943-1947; various copies of letters, 1943; various newspaper articles from UNCG Campus Weekly and Greensboro News & Record, 1991-1997; a “Sky High Experience” article located in Oversized Box 1, 1997.

Thelma Houpe Foster (1917-2010) served in the United States Women's Army Corps during World War II.

The collection includes a 2009 January 16 oral history transcript.

The mission of Foundation Finance is to record, report, and safeguard the fiscal assets of six entities that are related to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In carrying out this mission, Foundation Finance performs the accounts payable, accounts receivable, accounting and investment directives of the entities.

This records group is comprised of audits and financial reports dating from 2001 to 2009.

The collection includes correspondence, photographs, and biographical materials documenting her experience as a camp librarian at Camp Lejeune, NC, and at Pear Harbor, HI; along with various printed materials, including newspaper clippings and souvenirs, and an oral history transcript, 5 March 1999.

This collection includes May 2016 oral history transcript; copies of photographs; Series 4030 1996 Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina yearbook; Women Marine Association Iraqi Lioness Chapter challenge coin.

The collection includes 7 letters from 2 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), Myers and Freeman, to a Private First Class (PFC) soldier Gerald McCubbins, 15 April-2 June 1943.

June 2023 oral history interview and transcript

Organized in 1898 and federated in 1902, the Friday Afternoon Club gathers for lectures and joint intellectual scholarship. According to a history of the club prepared by several members in 1979, the founding members were integral in establishing the Greensboro Public Library.

The collection serves to record the activities of the club and its members by means of meeting minutes, yearbooks/programs and various other materials.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 November 1999; various correspondence, 1942-1944; various diary entries, 1942-1945; various military papers, 1941-1983; Memories of World War II, Froome interview with George L. McDermott; various photographs of Froome's Army Nurse Corps service, 1942-1945.

Letters and postcards from Arline Furstman to an acquaintance in Jamaica, Long Island, chiefly document Furstman's service with the WAVES in 1944 and 1945. Letters detail her duties in the military; off-duty activities; reactions to VJ Day in August 1945; entertainment; and the 1945 plane crash into the Empire State Building.

Ruth Gaddy (1918-2014) of Charlotte, North Carolina, served in the United States WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) and WAC (Women's Army Corps) during WWII. She was part of the all African-American 6888th Central Postal Battalion.

The collection includes a 2001 May oral history transcript.

Sydney Gallegos (b. 1997), of Fort Smith, Arkansas, served in the United States Marine Corps from 2015-2021.

The collection includes a 2022 February oral history transcript, hat device, copies of certificates, military papers, Parris boot camp yearbook, and USMC 2015.

This collection includes May 2019 oral history transcript; photographs; clippings; certificates; John L. Hennessy Trophy Awards booklet.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 December 2008.

Alma Garlow was a a 1934 graduate of Woman's College (now UNCG), a doll collector and a member of the National Institute of American Doll Artists. The set of dolls in this collection, entitled An American Family, 1630-1900, was carved from horse chestnut wood by Helen Bullard.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 April 2007; various scans of photographs, along with a letter, 1945.

Caroline Morrison Garrett was a student at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1940-1944. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics.

The collection contains correspondence, journals, scrapbooks, and records from Garrett's years attending the Woman's College (now UNCG).

Mary Virginia Gaver worked as a professional librarian in secondary schools, universities and the private sector for four decades, and also served as president of the Association of School Librarians (1959-1960) and president of the American Library Association (1966-1967).

The Mary Virginia Gaver Papers date from 1945 to 1979 and contain correspondence, manuscripts, books, journal articles, audio tapes, newsletters and sound recordings.

Records from the General Education Council's Action Plan Forum dating from 2010.

Reference was created to have easily accessible documents pertaining to the history of UNCG from its inception until today. The documents in the "Reference" collection tend to pertain to events held by UNCG in the past, Alumnae/i, and the general happenings of the University over time. This collection contains books and other assorted files.

Claudia Butler Geniton (b. 1953), of Atlanta, Georgia served in the United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) and United States Army from 1971 to 1983 on active duty, and the United States Army Reserve from 1983 to 1994, serving during both the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War. This collection includes March 2011 oral history transcript; photographs; a newspaper clipping about Geniton and a green class A dress uniform jacket.

Wedding invitation and souvenir yarmulke provided to guests at the wedding of Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 29 October 1999; photographs of Joan while and after serving in Marine Corps, 1961-1986; 2 Woodland Camouflage uniforms; 3 tan shirts; 2 green skirts; green slacks; green necktab; 2 staff Sergeant Rank patches.

This collection includes a March 2009 oral history transcript; Compact disc with German's scanned World War II era photographs.

This collection includes November 2016 oral history transcript; digital photographs. Germano's 2018 book Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Females Are Trained, co-written with Kelly Kennedy and published by Prometheus Books has been catalogued separately as part of the WVHP monograph reference collection.

The UNCG Gerontology Program collection contains files created and gathered by the department, which documents the department’s operations. This includes correspondence generated by program staff, published news on the program, and files pertaining to different events held by the program.

The collection includes a 10 March 2009 oral history transcript; a photograph of Getz while working at her desk, circa 1975; a South Vietnam flag.

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 August 2005; various photographs of Gibson during and after her Coast Guard service, circa 1944-1945, 2005.

Esther Gilbert of Norwich, Connecticut, served as a staff assistant with the American Red Cross in the Pacific Theater of World War II from July 1944 to March 1946.

This extensive scrapbook depicts Gilbert's service in the Pacific Theater of World War II through photos with detailed captions as well as maps, tourism guides, news clippings, and other mementos from the various places in which Gilbert served, including Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan.

The collection includes photographs of Kelly's Coast Guard SPARS service, circa 1944-1945; newspaper publication featuring Kelly with Tennessee SPARS, undated.