Encyclopedia of UNCG History
An online resource for exploring the history of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Louise Brevard Alexander
Louise Brevard Alexander was born in 1887 in Hickory, North Carolina. She graduated from Presbyterian College (now Queen’s College) in Charlotte, where she was president of the student body, president of her literary society, editor of the yearbook, captain of the Daddy Rabbit Tennis Team, and a member of many other clubs, including the Epicureans. […]
Lois Virginia Edinger
Lois Virginia Edinger was a professor of education at the Woman’s College (later University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)), from 1962 until her retirement in 1988. Born in Thomasville, North Carolina, in 1925, she received her A.B. from Meredith College in 1945. After graduation, she taught Social Studies and English for many years from […]
Richard Bardolph
Richard Bardolph was a professor of United States history at the Women’s College (later The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)), from 1944 to 1980. He served as head of the history department from 1960 to 1978. He was a writer of countless newspaper editorials, was widely published in his discipline, and was regarded […]
Vira Rogers Kivett
Vira Rogers Kivett was a research instructor in the Department of Child Development within the School of Home Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1960 to 1964, and again from 1968 to 1976. Born in Augusta, Georgia in 1933, she received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Woman’s […]
Franklin McNutt
Franklin Holbrook McNutt was Dean of the School of Education at the Woman’s College (later the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1941 to 1946. Before coming to the Woman’s College, he was head of the Department of Education at the University of Cincinnati. A native of Ohio, McNutt began his career in education […]
Mary Elizabeth Keister
Mary Elizabeth Keister was born in 1913 in Mount Vernon, Iowa and was a professor and Director of Early Childhood Programs at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She received her B.S. degree from the Women’s College (now UNCG) in 1934 and her M.A. in preschool education from the University of Iowa in […]