Found 169 events matching "University of North Carolina System"

John Sadri was the ACC Champion in singles men's tennis in 1977 and 1978 as well as in doubles in 1976 and 1978. He was the 1978 NCAA Championship runner-up, losing to Stanford Freshman John McEnroe. He was inducted into the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame in 2001.

NC 4-H Club members participated in the first national scrap drive in 1942 by collecting metal, paper, and rubber. In 1943, the National 4-H organization sponsored a "Victory Scrap Drive," and North Carolina 4-H'ers raised $1,700 dollars for the purchase of an ambulance donated to the armed services.

The Plant Disease Clinic was established in the Department of Plant Pathology as a diagnostic clinic for farmers and gardeners in North Carolina, processing plant specimens sent by mail or in person for immediate disease control recommendations. In 1970, the clinic was renamed the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic after bringing on scientists from the Department of Entomology.

At the 4-H Short Course meeting, a competition was held to select District Kings and Queens of Health. NC State traditionally hosted youth groups on campus during the summers. The North Carolina 4-H Short Courses, State Club Weeks, and State Congresses have been held at NC State since the 1920s.

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.

The speaker was the Honorable Burley B. Mitchell Jr., Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Megan Elizabeth Jones gave the Address to Fellow Graduates. Honorary degrees were awarded to Dr. Raymond H. Dawson (Doctor of Humane Letters) and Burley B. Mitchell, Jr. (Doctor of Humane Letters). Tribute was paid to former Chancellor John Caldwell who passed away in October 1995.

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)

Mechanical contractors in North Carolina expressed interest in having a construction degree program at NC State. The contractors advocated for the creation of a construction management (CM) degree program that was distinct from the construction engineering degree. Less math and science was required in the CM degree, which focused more on economics and business.

Remarks to the graduating class were made by president of the Consolidated University William Friday and Class President Arron W. E. Capel II. Dr. Carlyle Marney, minister of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, gave the baccalaureate sermon. Honorary degrees were awarded to agricultural scientist Willard Holden Darst; Henry Burton Robinson, director of Carolina Power and Light Company; and silviculturist Francis Xavier Schumacher

Poe Hall was named for Clarence Hamilton Poe (1881-1964). Poe served as editor of the Progressive Farmer and an advocate for improved services for rural people. He was an advocate of the programs that NC State provided, particularly in terms of agricultural education and research. He received the North Carolina Medal in 1964 and an honorary Doctor of Agricultural Education in 1951 from NC State.

The commencement speaker was W. Kerr Scott, governor of North Carolina. He also received an honorary Doctor of Agriculture. Rev. Clarence E. Norman, pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Raleigh, gave the invocation. An honorary Doctor of Engineering was awarded to Felix Stanton Hales, authority on rail transportation. An honorary Doctor of Textile Science was awarded to Albert Gallatin Myers, president of Textiles-Incorporated in Gastonia, NC.

The speakers were Governor R. Gregg Cherry and Greater University President Frank Porter Graham. The baccalaureate sermon was delivered on June 8 by Rev. Thomas Henry Wright, the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Carolina. Honorary degrees were awarded to Charles Stainback of the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company; Harry H. Straus of the Escusta Paper Corporation; John Redd Hutcheson, president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and John Washington Clark, textile manufacturer.

The Minerals Research Laboratory opened in Asheville, NC. The laboratory was initially created as a collaboration between the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provided equipment and funds, and the Division of Mineral Resources of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, which provided the building. State Geologist and NC State professor Jasper L. Stuckey was involved in securing the initial contract for the laboratory and served as its founding director.

Caroline Sherman was the first woman hired as librarian at NC State. During Sherman’s tenure as librarian from 1903 to 1906, library holdings moved from the third floor of Main Building (later Holladay Hall) to the first floor of old Pullen Hall. With input from D. H. Hill Jr., she tried to make the library comfortable for extracurricular reading and subscribed to popular periodicals and newspapers from all North Carolina counties.

As a football defensive player, Dennis Byrd became a two-time All American in 1966 and 1967. He was a member of the "White Shoes" defense that helped the Wolfpack achieve the rank of No. 3 in the 1967 season and win the Liberty Bowl. He was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2007, the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010, and the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.

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.

A. F. Greaves-Walker organized and served as head of the new Department of Ceramic Engineering, the first department of its kind in the American South. Greaves-Walker was from the U.K. and spent 20 years working in industry as a mining and ceramic engineer and administrator. According to a 1927 Technician article, the department was "established primarily to promote the ceramic industries of North Carolina and to thus provide plants in which its graduates may find employment."

The speaker was R. Gregg Cherry, governor of North Carolina. Rev. B. R. Lacy of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA, gave the baccalaureate sermon on May 27th. An honorary Doctor of Agriculture was awarded to Dudley Warren Bagley, executive officer of the United States General Accounting Office. An honorary Doctor of Textile Science was awarded to Arthur Mills Dixon, alumnus and mayor of Gastonia, NC. An honorary Doctor of Military Science was awarded to William Carey Lee, alumnus and lieutenant who served in World War I.

The original textile equipment was housed in the basement of Holladay Hall. Support for the program grew, and the North Carolina General Assembly appropriated $10,000 toward the construction of a textile building in 1901. This structure, Tompkins Hall, resembled a textile mill of the period and was completed in early 1902. In 1917, it was named for Daniel A. Tompkins, a Charlotte industrialist who was instrumental in the establishment of the textile program at NC State. Donors in the textiles industry contributed over $25,000 worth of machinery.