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… Continue reading…
Richard A. “Dick” Swanson was a professor of exercise and sport science from 1980 to 2007, and Dean of the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1980 to 1992. Swanson came to UNCG after being chair of the Department… Continue reading…
Richard Bardolph was a professor of United States history at the Women’s College, and later at 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 as a… Continue reading…
Stanley Llewellyn Jones was Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1971 until his retirement in 1983. He was born and raised in Wisconsin, and received both his B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He working on his doctorate… Continue reading…
Kathleen Pettit Hawkins graduated from the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG) in 1920, after completing a one year commercial course, and was immediately hired by then President Julius Foust as a secretary to Laura Coit, who was his own secretary. In 1937, she left the President’s office and began working… Continue reading…
Ione Grogan was a mathematics professor and residence hall counsel in the Coit and Weil dormitories at the Woman’s College (now UNCG) from 1935 to 1958. Born in Reidsville, North Carolina in 1895, she received two A.B. degrees from the Woman’s College, one in English in 1913 and a second… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
Donald DeRosa served as the Dean of the Graduate School and associate Vice Chancellor for research, as well as holding the rank of professor of psychology, from 1985-1990. In 1990, he succeeded Elizabeth Zinser as Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, an office which underwent a name change to Provost in… Continue reading…
David Shelton was the first Dean of the Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics, serving from its founding in 1969 until 1983. Prior to his appointment as Dean, Shelton was a Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Administration, beginning in 1965 and then serving as the… Continue reading…
