Warren Henry Manning was born in 1860 in Reading Massachusetts. Manning was an architect and while he was never formally trained, he gained experience by working as the manager at his father’s plant nursery. In 1887, he began working with the Frederick Law Olmsted landscape architecture firm and continued to… Continue reading…
The University’s music library (located on the second floor of the Music Building) was renamed the Harold Schiffman Music Library in 2012 for the Greensboro born composer Harold Schiffman, after he and his wife, music educator and pianist Jane Perry-Camp, gave a 2 million dollar gift to UNCG to provide… Continue reading…
The “Winged Victory” statue stands in the lobby of the Forney Building at UNCG. “Winged Victory” is a statue of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, and was a gift to the then State Normal and Industrial College (later UNCG) by the Class of 1915. The statue underwent a significant… Continue reading…
Wade R. Brown was born in 1866 in Venice, Ohio. In 1880, Brown attended Baker University where he later became a faculty member. While serving as the Dean of the School of Music at Meredith College, he was recruited by Julius Foust to join the faculty for the State Normal… Continue reading…
Sallie Southall Cotten (1846-1929) was a writer, a women’s rights activist and a reformer. She was one of the founders of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1902, and served as the federation’s president from 1912-1913. During her term as president, she was influential in achieving legislation which… Continue reading…
In 1956, Bettye Ann Davis Tillman and JoAnne Smart, became the first African-American students to enroll at the Woman’s College (now UNCG). Upon their graduation in 1960, there were twenty African-American students attending the Woman’s College. Tillman and Smart were housed by themselves in a residence wing of Shaw Residence Hall. In 1992, the parlor of the Shaw Residence… Continue reading…
The Leonard J. Kaplan Center for Wellness at UNCG opened in the Fall of 2016. An enhanced “student recreation center,” at over 216,000 sq. ft., it is more than double the size of the previously existing student recreation center. It includes several multi-purpose gyms, a 23,000 sq. ft. weight/cardio space,… Continue reading…
Cornelia Phillips Spencer was born in 1825 in Harlem, New York and moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1826 when her father, James Phillips, took a position as a professor and chair of the mathematics department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). In 1855, she… Continue reading…
George Washington Hinshaw was a merchant and banker who served on the Board of Directors of the State Normal and Industrial College (Later the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1910 until his death in 1918. The Hinshaw Residence Hall,, which opened in 1922, was named in his honor. Hinshaw was born in 1847 in Chatham County, North Carolina. His… Continue reading…
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (for whom the Curry Building is named) was a minister, politician, and Confederate Army officer during the Civil War. Born in Georgia, his family moved to Alabama when he was 13 years old. After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1843, Curry enrolled in Harvard… Continue reading…