Harriet Wiseman Elliott was born in Carbondale, Illinois, on July 10, 1884, and died there on August 6, 1947. She attended Park College in Parkville, Missouri, received her bachelor’s degree from Hanover College in Indiana and her master’s degree from Columbia University in New York. Elliott joined the faculty of… Continue reading…
Anna Maria Gove was born July 6, 1867, in Whitefield, New Hampshire. After her education at MIT and Woman’s Medical College of New York Infirmary, from which she graduated in 1892, Dr. Gove served for a year in the New York Infant Asylum. In 1893 she came to the State… Continue reading…
Edward Jacob Forney (1860-1948) was a leader in public education in North Carolina. He was born near the Catawba-Lincoln county line and educated in the public schools of Newton and at Catawba College. He became State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Raleigh in 1890 and came to the State Normal… Continue reading…
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Owen and Anna Campbell Jarrell. He spent his early childhood years in California and in Nashville, and attended Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville as a teenager. In the fall of 1932, Jarrell enrolled at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, Jarrell wrote for and… Continue reading…
The Business Education and Secretarial Science Department was established in 1932. The degree confirmed by the department was referred to as a Bachelor of Science in Secretarial Administration. In 1940 the title of the department changed to the Department of Business Education and Secretarial Administration. Up until 1941, a student… Continue reading…
The Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics began in 1892 when the Commercial Department was established as one of the three original departments of the State Normal and Industrial School. In 1918, the Department of Economics and Sociology was founded. In 1919, it was renamed the Department of… Continue reading…
In 1934, a section of the Chapel Hill chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the arts and sciences honorary society, was organized at Woman’s College. It achieved full chapter status itself in 1956.
In 1921, the college organized an honor society, Tau Pi Delta, to recognize campus leaders. The eleven charter members were selected on the basis of college spirit, character, intellect, leadership, and special ability. In 1923, the members decided to disband, stating that the group’s existence went counter to the notion… Continue reading…
In 1908, the Alumnae Association offered a prize of ten dollars in gold to the person who could write the best song to represent the spirit of the school. There was no response to this call, but in 1910, Laura Weill (later, Laura Weill Cone) wrote the college song, which… Continue reading…
Until 1909, North Carolina Day was celebrated in October at the school with special events and programs. In 1909, North Carolina Day was dedicated to the memory of founding president Charles Duncan McIver. Alumnae met in locations across the state, and students placed wreaths on his grave at Green Hill… Continue reading…
