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Head Cheerleader Billy Garrabrant announced that the cheerleading team will be co-ed by adding four women cheerleaders to the team roster for the year. Women were also members of the cheer squad in the 1940s.
The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program was established. Fifty-six freshman women with majors in PAMS and the College of Engineering joined the program in its first year. As of 2009, the "living and learning village" included 256 women majoring in five colleges across campus, and a high school chapter was established at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
This sorority was an international service organization established by African American college educated women.
Margaret Hunt and Lillie Castor were the first two African American women hired as professional librarians to work at the D. H. Hill Jr. Library.
The university published, for the first time, a "Report on the Status of Women Students."
The Sista 2 Sistuh Network was established to support African American women at NC State.
Enrollment of women passed 10,000, and tuition for in-state students increased again to $922.
Margaret E. Daub (plant pathology) was the first women hired as department head of botany.
Drummer Lois Madden became one of the first women to join the NC State marching band.
Julie Shea won five Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) individual championships in outdoor track.
The Department of Military Science began enrolling women in the program in the fall of 1973.
Yarbrough Court, the court surrounded by Holladay, Peele, Leazar, and Watauga Halls, was named after Mary E. Yarbrough. Yarbrough was the first women to earn a graduate degree from NC State and one of the first three women to graduate from the university.
Margaret Kramer and Martha S. Richmond became the first women to receive MS degrees in agricultural chemistry.
NC State's first annual "Take Back the Night" march and rally was held to protest violence against women.
Alma Williams of Covington, VA, and Pam Lias of High Point, NC, earned spots on the Wolfpack co-ed rifle team.
The Women's Resource Coalition was established from the Women Students Advisory Board, which was organized in the fall of 1988.
A women's basketball team was established for the first time. The team included two African American women, Gwen Jenkins and Cynthia Steele.
The first African American Home Demonstration agents were appointed to work with African American farm women, who formed the first African American clubs.
Women were prohibited from entering freshmen and sophomore classes to boost enrollment at the Women's College in Greensboro. The restriction lasted until 1940.
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Monument was erected to honor the men and women who achieved independence of the thirteen original colonies.
