During World War I, the students of the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) took part in numerous aspects of campus work — including many of the jobs vacated by local men. In the summer of 1918, seven students calling themselves the “Carpenterettes,” banded together and built a YWCA… Continue reading…
Yoko Ishikawa was born in 1930 in Yokohama, Japan. In September of 1952, through the support of a Fulbright Scholarship, the Service League of Women’s College in Greensboro, and the U.S. Department of State, Ishikawa was able to attend Woman’s College as an exchange student for a year. She enrolled in… Continue reading…
Ralph Wilkerson was the first African American student at UNCG, male or female, elected as Student Government Association president (1978-1979). Entry by Lucy Mason, summer 2015 intern
