Virginia Ragsdale was a professor of mathematics at the Woman’s College (later the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1911 until her retirement in 1928. She was one of the most famous and distinguished mathematicians of her generation. Ragsdale is best known as the creator of the “Ragsdale Conjecture,”… Continue reading…
Charles Prall was Dean of the School of Education at the Woman’s College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1949 until his retirement in 1958. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Iowa in 1912 and would go on to served four different rural school… Continue reading…
Margaret Mordy was the Dean of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1974 to 1979. Immediately prior to her appointment at UNCG, Mordy served as chair of graduate studies with the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation… Continue reading…
Ellen Jean Griffin was a professor of physical education at the Woman’s College (later known as UNCG) from 1940 to 1968, and was one of the pioneers of women’s professional golf in the United States. After graduating from the Woman’s College in 1940 with a degree in Physical Education, she… Continue reading…
Mary Elizabeth Keister was born in 1913 in Mount Vernon, Iowa and was a professor and Director of Early Childhood Programs at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She received her B.S. degree from the Women’s College (now UNCG) in 1934 and her M.A. in preschool education from… Continue reading…
Kenneth Howe was a Professor of Education and Dean of the School of Education at the Woman’s College (and later UNCG) from 1958 to 1967. A native of Michigan, Howe received his B.S. degree in Math and Science from Eastern Michigan University in 1935, and his M.A. degree in Guidance… Continue reading…
Robert Terelius Gray was an attorney who served on the Board of Directors of the State Normal and Industrial College (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1901 to 1912, and was part owner of the ten acres which were donated for the original campus of the State… Continue reading…
Joanne V. Creighton served as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1985 to 1990. Before coming to UNCG, Creighton had been a professor of English Literature from 1968 to 1985 at Wayne State University, and served as… Continue reading…
Jack Bardon joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1976, as the University’s seventh Excellence Fund Professor and to serve as the director of the new Office of Educational Development in the School of Education. Prior to coming to UNCG, Bardon had been a… Continue reading…
Naomi Albanese was born in Pennsylvania in 1916. She served as Dean of the School of Home Economics 1958-1982. It was under her leadership in 1964, that the School of Home Economics became the first to offer a Ph.D. degree at the newly name University of North Carolina—Greensboro. Before coming to the Women’s College (now UNCG) in… Continue reading…
