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

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iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 m wm Early D ays N October 5, 1921, the North Carolina College for Women celebrated the thirtieth year of its activity with the biggest build- ing program and largest enrollment in its history. The first year of its work found three buildings, dormitory space for less than one hundred and fifty boarders, with a teaching force of fifteen, and an enrollment of 225 students. By 1 902 the faculty had increased to about thirty members. The library, which was for a time in rooms number 2 and 3, Main, had three thousand volumes. The training school had been built; the old infirmary, which is now a practice hall; the steam laundry, a large dining room, and a well-arranged kitchen all showed the growth of the college. By additions to the dormitories and by renting several neighboring residences the dormitory capacity was then about three hundred and fifty. An old annual of 1902 records the great comfort that had been given by the substitution of gas for kerosene lamps, the introduction of single beds, and the placing on every floor of por- celain baths. Courses were offered in three departments: the normal, the business, and the domestic science. There was also a special course in which a student could get training in vocal culture, physical culture, and industrial art. The course of study required four years for completion, after which the student received a lifetime license to teach in North Carolina. In 1919 the name of the college was changed from the State Normal and Industrial College to the North Carolina College for Women. In the fall of 1921 it was recognized by the Southern Association of Colleges as a standard college and became one of the six so honored in the state. At present there are sixteen buildings on the campus, six of which are dormitories, two class buildings, a domestic science cottage, the Y. W. C. A. hut, training school, laundry, and dairy. Dr. Mclver ' s residence is also on the campus. With the generous appropriation of the Legislature of 1921 three new dormitories were started, a new wing for Mclver, a new wing to the dining ».•■• :•:•:•:« •:•:• : •;» ; ■ »:• ' •:•:• '

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rtHEKEEDU A«CM i:i-i:t- ' M;MXMiKtxHi :i:t:t.t lllllllllllill ' li Officers or Administration J. I. FOUST, LL.D.. President W. C. JACKSON, B.S., Vice-President of the College W. C. SMITH, LlTT.D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Elizabeth D. Young, M.A., Dean of Residence E. S. DREHER, M.A., Business Manager EMMA King, A.B., Director of Dormitories ANNA M Go E, M.D., Director Department of Hygiene and Resident Physician Eva M. Locke, M.D., Physician E. J. Forney, Treasurer Laura H. Coit, Secretary Mary Taylor Moore, Registrar Charles B. Shaw, M.A.. Librarian HOPE CoOLIDGE, Dietitian EsTELLE BOYD, Housekeeper Ethel C. Bollinger, B.P., Alumnae Secretary Grace Lawrence, Assistant Director of Dormitories Clara B. BYRD, A.B., Assistant to Treasurer Elizabeth Sampson, B.S., Assistant Librarian Grace Stowell, Assistant Librarian Rosa Oliver, A.B., Assistant Librarian ANNIE CUMMINGS, A.B.. Assistant Librarian Mary TENNENT, A.B., Assistant Registrar Lois McDonald, A.M., General Secretary Y. W. C. A. Jessie McLean, R.N., Trained Nurse Cora Beam, R.N., Trained Nurse Alice McKlNNON, Posloffice, Booths and Sla ' ijnery Anna Rogers, B.S., Assistant Dietitian Clora McNeill, Stenographer Sadie Walker, Stenographer Vivian Rogers, Stenographer Virginia Morrison, Stenographer Kathleen Pettit, Stenographer

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Mttfto,E; ».•.•: :• :•:•:•: •:•:•:•:• .•:•:•:•:•!•• •:« |lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll[||||||||||lllll|iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii||| hall, and a domestic science building were put under construction. The dining room was ready for occupancy when the students returned in the fall, and the new wing to Mclver and the domestic science building will be completed this spring. The three new dormitories will be open next fall to accommodate the three hundred and fifty or four hundred new students who are expected to enter. In the fall of 1921 the enrollment of students was 982 and the number of faculty members 109. The first class to complete the four-year course was the Class of 1896, with nineteen members. The Senior Class of 1922 has ninety-five members. Degrees are now given at the college in three different departments — music, arts, and science. There is a business department under the direction of Mr. E. J. Forney, who has been at the college since it was founded. The library, a building of two stories with 18,000 volumes, is entirely inadequate for the needs of the students, and plans have already been drawn up to treble its capacity. The infirmary, which was built soon after the foundation of the college, has been turned into a music hall, and a new infirm- ary has been built with seventy-five beds and all modern equipment. An efficient staff of two lady physicians and two trained nurses are in charge at the infirmary. The new dormitories contain every modern convenience, and sun parlors and sitting rooms provide a cozy and homelike atmosphere. The contrast between the comforts of 1902 — gas lights — with those today, the lighting fixtures, the long mirrors in the doors, the steam-heated rooms, and the beau- tiful sun parlors and sitting rooms — is interesting to note. The campus itself is considered one of the most beautiful in the state. Many trees, shrubs, flowers and green slopes give a lovely effect in the spring. Peabody Park, a woodland of fifty acres, is owned by the college and is kept entirely for the students. Walks and bridges have been put in, but aside from that it is undisturbed. The outdoor theater, where Park Night exercises are held at commencement, is in Peabody. Three members of the original faculty of the college are still in active service. Miss Gertrude Mendenhall, who taught mathematics when the col- lege opened in 1892, is still at her post and is steering the daughters of many of her former pupils through the intricacies of freshman math. Miss Menden- is