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The Smith-Lever Act provided for federal, state, and county cooperation in creating a system to expand demonstration and extension work for men and women. The law authorized land-grant colleges to sign memoranda of understanding with the USDA to begin such work. NC State then created a new Department of Extension, which became the Agricultural Extension Service.
During World War II, the North Carolina textile industry, with the help of many NC State alumni, produced more fabric for the war effort than any other state. The textiles faculty conducted a 12-week course for fabric inspection and testing for war industry personnel and conducted courses in mill safety. Male student enrollment dropped, but women and international students continued studies during the war.
Four African American women were fired from custodial positions in all-male dormitories. Sixteen employees then held a sit-in at the chancellor's office and protested the action. The protestors demanded improvements in pay and working conditions and were arrested for refusing to leave. That evening, African American students and employees marched to the Chancellor's Residence protesting these actions. The following day, janitorial and housekeeping services in residence halls were canceled.
Women's basketball coach Kay Yow passed away after a long battle with cancer in 2009. One of the few women to coach more than 1,000 games at a single institution, her NC State record was 680-325. Hoops 4 Hope and the Kay Yow Cancer Fund was initiated to raise money for cancer research. Yow was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame.
Katharine Stinson was the first woman to graduate from NC State's School of Engineering. Stinson received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree in the Aeronautical option. Stinson was taking flying lessons at the old Raleigh Airport on US-401 when Amelia Earhart flew in for a visit in the early 1930s. When Stinson told Earhart that she wanted to become a pilot, Earhart advised her to become an engineer, which was a career Stinson pursued in spite of obstacles that prevented most young women from striving for such a degree. Stinson was told she must enter State College as a junior, so she completed forty-eight semester hours in one year at Meredith, including two summer sessions, to attain her goal. Besides being the first woman engineer to graduate from NC State, Stinson was the first woman engineer hired by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, now the Federal Aviation Administration, in February 1942. By the time she retired from the FAA, as Technical Assistant Chief of the Engineering and Manufacturing Division, she had served as the third president of the Society of Woman Engineers and on a presidential advisory committee for aviation safety under Lyndon Johnson. "I just wanted to be a good engineer...I just did my job and most of the men accepted me," Stinson once said.
