Found 169 events matching "University of North Carolina System"
June Atkinson was awarded a Doctor of Education degree. She later became the first woman to serve as North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The Department of Horticulture, Arboriculture, and Botany was established as one of the five original academic divisions of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
The North Carolina State College Foundation was established and was the first foundation created for the purpose of attracting private support for the college.
The North Carolina General Assembly appropriated funding for the planning of the new James B. Hunt Jr. Library to be built on Centennial Campus.
Charles Dabney penned the legislation to create the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. March 7 was celebrated annually as Founders Day.
The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (A&M) taught two curricula: agriculture and mechanics. The mechanics curriculum included fundamentals of civil and mechanical engineering.
The Industrial Extension Service, the first of its kind in the United States, was established in 1955 to help North Carolina industries grow and prosper.
The NC State University Libraries commenced the Green 'n' Growing project to create online access to information on the history of 4-H and home demonstration in North Carolina. Since then, the Libraries has facilitated access to even more materials on NC Cooperative Extension history.
Since there was no graduating class until 1893, this "closing ceremony" took the place of commencement. The speaker was Zebulon Vance, North Carolina governor and senator.
Governor Mike Easley declared November Indian Heritage Month in North Carolina. Native American Student Association members presented Chancellor Marye Anne Fox with a copy of Easley's proclamation.
Emily Catherine Brown Blount of Fayetteville, NC, became the first woman to receive a BS in civil engineering from NC State in 1953. She received a professional degree in civil engineering in 1954. Blount went on to become the first woman licensed as a professional engineer in North Carolina in 1960, and she was inducted into the North Carolina Transportation Hall of Fame in 2007.
There was no official commencement speaker but instead a series of brief remarks given by North Carolina Governor J. Melville Broughton, Greater University President Frank Porter Graham, Dean of Administration (and later Chancellor) John W. Harrelson, and senior class President William C. Friday. The baccalaureate sermon was given on June 8th by Dr. Wyatt Aiken Smart from Emory University. Honorary degrees were awarded to Richard Thurmond Chatham, president of Chatham Manufacturing Company, and alumnus Roger Vernon Terry of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.
As a result of expansion under the New Deal agricultural programs, this was the first year that there was a county agent for every county in North Carolina.
The commencement speaker was Dr. George Wells Beadle, a Nobel prize winner and chancellor of the University of Chicago. Remarks to the graduating class were also given by Consolidated University President William Friday and North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford. Honorary degrees were awarded to John Columbus Cowan, president of Burlington Industries; Frederick Carlton Gardner, president of EBASCO Services Inc.; forestry expert Irvine Theodore Haig; agricultural statistician Thomas Franklin Parker; and Thelma Howell, director of the Highlands Biological Station. Howell was the first woman to receive an honorary degree at NC State.
In an unprecedented landslide, Jim Hunt was elected to a second term as student body president. Hunt would go on to be a four-term governor of North Carolina.
Elizabeth C. Theil became the first woman at NC State to hold a named professorship and was honored with the University of North Carolina's O. Max Gardner Award.
The Grinnells Animal Health Laboratory was named for Claude Delbert Grinnells, professor of Animal Husbandry at NC State for 33 years. He was named North Carolina Veterinarian of the Year in 1958.
The Watauga Club met for the first time. The club was formed by young men who were investigating way to strengthen all aspects of North Carolina, including creation of an industrial school.
A Physical Education major was approved to prepare students to teach and coach in public schools. There was only one graduating class in 1937 because of the depression, which resulted in a consolidation of programs within the university system (NC State College, UNC-Chapel Hill and Women’s College, later UNC-Greensboro).
In his remarks at the event, Eisenhower celebrated North Carolina history and agriculture and suggested that the U.S. could be a global leader in the aftermath of World War II.
