Found 30 events matching "1949 "
Robert Walter Graeber was hired as the extension forester. He served in this position until 1949.
Jensen established the Pesticide School in 1949 and brought together representatives of agricultural chemicals industry and research and extension workers.
Ralph Fadum came to NC State in 1949 as a professor and head of the civil engineering department. He held this position until 1962.
The department began teaching courses in philosophy in 1949. As a result, the Department of Ethics and Religion was renamed the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Gerald Orlando Theodore Erdahl was hired as the first College Union Director in September 1949, which further established the idea of a college union at State College.
The Memorial Bell Tower was dedicated with former Governor R. Gregg Cherry present at the ceremony.
The inaugural Dixie Classic tournament was held. The tournament was initiated by Coach Everett N. Case so that the men's basketball team wouldn't have to play out of town during the winter holidays, and it continued every year into the 1960s.
More than 1,000 students graduated from State College for the first time.
The Athletics Council voted to make soccer a varsity sport.
A banquet ended the first annual Greek Week sponsored by the Inter-Fraternity Council.
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 speaker was Governor W. Kerr Scott. The invocation was given by Rev. C. S. McCoy, director of the Wesley Foundation in Raleigh.
Head Cheerleader Scott Eubanks organized the Pep Club, a group designed to improve school spirit and increase participation at pep rallies and games.
Twenty-two women were listed on the faculty, most at the instructor or laboratory technician level. Departments with more than one woman employee included English (six), statistics (three), textiles (three), and modern languages (two). Women were also on the faculty in architecture, agricultural economics, mathematics, physics, social studies, chemistry, engineering, research, and agronomy.
The Coca-Cola Company threatened to remove their machines from campus if students didn't start returning empty bottles to the racks instead of discarding them around campus.
Reynolds Coliseum opened with the NC State men's basketball team beating Washington and Lee, 67-47. Not all of the seats had been installed, so some fans had to sit on the cement tiers.
Duke Kimbrell received a bachelor's degree in textile manufacturing. He later became chairman of Parkdale Mills, Inc., the largest manufacturer of spun yarn in the world.
