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The Faculty Senate was officially approved by the general faculty and the Committee on College at a meeting on this date. Prior to 1954, Faculty Senate was known as Faculty Council or the Advisory Committee of the General Faculty.
Wallace Carl Riddick became college president. He previously served as vice president and professor of civil engineering. He was president until 1923, when he became engineering dean. (Biography of Wallace Carl Riddick)
Anchored by the College of Veterinary Medicine, the CBC was located on the corner of Hillsborough Street and Blue Ridge Road. It was home to the Randall B. Terry, Jr. Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center, more than 60 corporate and government partners, and 73 academic units.
The commencement speaker was Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, president of Bennett College in Greensboro. She was the first African American to serve as chair of the board of the United Way. Anna Edens gave the Address to Fellow Graduates. Honorary degrees were awarded to Richard Meier (Doctor of Fine Arts), Patrick Moore (Doctor of Sciences), and Johnnetta Cole (Doctor of Humane Letters).
The College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (PAMS) established the Science House to provide hands-on science opportunities to K-12 students. The Science House later expanded to a main office on Centennial Campus and five satellite offices throughout the state.
The Board of Trustees amended their decision from earlier in the year to admit women to A&M College. The board decided women would be classified as special students, except in textiles courses, where they could be enrolled as regular students.
The title for the chief executive officer at NC State changed from "president" to "dean of administration." This occurred after NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Women's College (which later became UNC-Greensboro) combined to form the Consolidated University.
After serving as a professor of English and librarian at the college, Hill was chosen by the Board of Trustees to succeed President George Tayloe Winston. He served until retirement in 1916. (Biography of D. H. Hill, Jr.)
Fitts-Woolard Hall opened as a 225,000 square-foot engineering innovation building. Fitts-Woolard Hall brought the College of Engineering together on Centennial Campus by serving as the home for the Dean’s Administration; the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering; and the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and System Engineering.
Joab L. Thomas became the ninth chancellor of NC State. During his administration, enrollment at the university surpassed 20,000 students for the first time, and the College of Veterinary Medicine was established. He left NC State in 1981 to become president of the University of Alabama. (Biography of Joab Thomas)
The first North Carolina Building Code was published as Bulletin No. 10 of the NC State College Engineering Experiment Station. The publication followed efforts by construction and structural engineer Professor Wilfred George Geile to organize and create legislation for a State Building Code.
The land scrip funds were transferred to the new Raleigh college, which became NC State. University of North Carolina President Battle unsuccessfully opposed the transfer of the land scrip funds from UNC to the proposed agricultural school in Raleigh. A bill was passed on this date to transfer the funds.
Daniel Augustus Tompkins of Charlotte, NC, advocated for textiles education in the South. After initially planning to establish a textile school in Charlotte, Tompkins and other community leaders, including Judge Heriot Clarkson, worked to establish the textiles school as part of the newly founded NC A&M College (NC State).
NC State and the National Youth Administration signed an agreement allowing the NYA to construct a training center on campus. A group of buildings was erected on a site later occupied by the east side of Miller Field and the Jordan Hall Addition. The college took control of these building in 1943 or 1944 and demolished them in 1959.
Wallace C. Riddick worked as a civil engineer before joining the faculty at NC State and continued professional service in Raleigh while teaching, including work on rebuilding the city’s water system. He served as president of North Carolina State College from 1916 to 1923 and was the founding dean of the School of Engineering from 1923 to 1937.
During World War II, State College formed a partnership with the U.S. Navy to train naval officers in diesel engineering. The Diesel Building was constructed to house this project. It was designed by Ross Edward Shumaker and became part of Broughton Hall in 1951.
The Agromeck announced it was adding a Beauty Section to "offer the average Joe College a chance to show his beauty-getting ability." Men were asked to send in snapshots of their girlfriends to be judged, and the top 10 would appear in the yearbook.
A majority of students chose red and white as colors for the sports teams. The colors changed a couple different times during the early years of the college. The faculty agreed to the adoption of red and white and stated that they could not be changed again without a vote of two-thirds of the student body. The colors have remained the same since.
The Board of Trustees chose Alexander Q. Holladay as the first president of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The offer surprised Holladay because he applied to be a professor of English, but he accepted the presidency position anyway. He served in the position until 1899. (Biography of Alexander Holladay)
The non-degree granting School of General Studies was established. The school later became the degree-granting College of Humanities and Social Sciences. General Studies replaced the Basic Division, and initially it included the following departments: economics, English, history and political science, modern languages, philosophy and religion, physical education, social studies, and sociology.
