University of North Carolina Greensboro - Pine Needles Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Joarevmci itemplateS a ha S§iS-£ 1 ituru of aratifuina achievement. cltlzeni votina e.s.pu C reensboro, centrally located, wad chosen as the location of the institution, the $30,000 in bonds for the first two buildinaS, and and l . SJ. ( - rau of IKaieiah aivina a ten-acre site. other individual, Charles Jjuncan fl ' IcJrver was responsible ll lore than anu I fc for founding the coileae of which he became first president. Uther pioneers in public education, Charles B. Jtucoch, (Ldwin -A. -Alderman, and tfames Uj. tfouner, lent

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aniaru ■Jo all idealistic pioneers in democratic progress and in furtherance of litu in education, hiqh tribute is paid. J or it id to them that lA c oman 5 , owed iti birth. (Established bu legislative enactment Jebruaru 19, 1891, ad the J tate V formal and . Industrial School, first institution created bu the J tate of r forth Carolina for higher education of women, the T] lA oman ' s L ollege of the University of rjorth L arolit 1 its fiftieth

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their Support to JJr. f cJrver ' s | ' Sf vJpenina on KJctober 5, 1892, with a student crusade tor the education of women. t of 176 and enrollment a tacultu of 15, the colleae first ottered I formal, iSusineSS, and J4ome (L-c women e conomicS ducat ion to courses in fultillina the two-fold legislative objectives of aivina — r L 1 ' fit them to teach and instruction in drawina, teleqraphu, tupe-Settinq, stenoqraphu and Such other industrial art as mau be Suitable to their sex id conducive to their usefulness. Upon the death of dJr. rl ' IcJrver in 1906, Jjr. sruliuS r. jroust J • 7 • succeeded to the presidency, and y gEEUx -- under his leadership