Department of English

President D. H. Hill Jr. appointed English professors Thomas P. Harrison and George Summey as co-chairs of the Library Committee. Harrison and Summey departed from Hill Jr.'s solitary approach to book selection and instead asked faculty to recommend titles for the collection.

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.

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.

Raleigh's Cardinal Theater was the site of the Southern premier of The Flim Flam Man, a new film based on a novel by NC State English professor Guy Owen. The film stared George C. Scott. Both the Technician and Dr. Owen expressed some degree of disappointment at how the film turned out.

The Department of English created a graduate program by offering a master of arts degree.

Assistant Professor of English Lee Smith became the first woman faculty member to receive the prestigious North Carolina Award.

Walt Wolfram was appointed as the William C. Friday Distiguished Professor of English Linguistics, the first endowed chair in the humanities at NC State.

Fountain Dining Hall was built in 1982 and named for Dr. Alvin Marcus Fountain, professor of English for 46 years.

The Creative Writing MFA program enrolled its first cohort of students in 2003.