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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.
Three women joined the faculty at NC State. Ruth Couch Allen and Louise K. Cell became instructors in English, and Ruth Badger Hall became an instructor in modern languages.
Approximately 8,000 women were enrolled in a student body of 22,632. More than one third of the undergraduates were women, which at the time was the highest percentage of women enrolled at NC State.
Watauga Hall opened as NC State's first women-only dorm. It was the first time women were able to live on campus at NC State. All undergraduate single women were required to live there.
As the number of women enrolled at NC State increased, the physical education department provided women-only classes for students.
NC State cheerleader Diane Ramsey joined the varsity fencing program in 1965, which at the time was all male. Karen Costarisan and Cathey Jehle joined the team in 1967 and Barbara Walters, Gladys Mason and Barbara Grice joined in 1969.
The fourth and fifth women hired as full professors at NC State were appointed. Hedwig Hirschmann Triantaphyllou advanced to full professor of plant pathology and Emily Quinn Pugh became a full professor of adult education.
Urgent appeals were made to increase women enrollment numbers in engineering courses as male students left to fight in World War II.
Two women engineering students from NC State attended a conference at MIT that discussed the opportunities and difficulties facing women in science and engineering.
In the fall of 1986, women made up 38% of the student body, which was at the time was the highest percentage of women enrolled at NC State.
Fifty-eight women were enrolled at NC State, many taking advantage of special scholarships to provide engineering training to women so they could work in industry during World War II.
Kathy Bounds, Deb Webb, and Genie Jordan organized a basketball club for women.
The first degrees were conferred to women at NC State. The recipients were Jane McKimmon, BS in business administration; Charlotte Nelson, BS in education; and Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, MS in chemistry. Yarbrough was the first woman to graduate who completed all coursework while at NC State, and she was the first woman to earn a master's degree at NC State.
Eighteen women won a fellowship award of $1,425 from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, which offered to employ them as engineering aides after completing a 48-week course offered by State College.
This organization promoted the success and awareness of African American women in the categories of education, mentoring and tutoring, socioeconomic development and health and wellness.
The Board of Trustees amended their decision from earlier in the year to admit women to A&M College. The board decided women would be classified as special students, except in textiles courses, where they could be enrolled as regular students.
Chief Wilma Mankiller of the Cherokee Nation was honored at the Eighth Annual Role Model Leaders Forum at the Student Center Annex (now Witherspoon Student Center) during Native American Awareness Week. Mankiller spoke about women's roles in Native American tribes.
The first Home Demonstration programs were organized for African American women.
The Board of Trustees voted to open A&M College to women.
In 1941, twenty women were enrolled at State College alongside 2,406 men.
