Found 329 events matching "year:[1970 TO 1979]"
Dr. E. T. York Jr., chancellor of the State University System of Florida, gave the commencement address. Derek Carl Meyer gave the Address to Fellow Graduates, and UNC President William Friday also gave remarks. An honorary Doctor of Humanities was awarded to Lodwick Charles Hartley, head of the English department for more than 30 years.
This organization's mission was "to increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community."
This sorority was an international service organization established by African American college educated women.
The AACC moved to the renovated Print Shop, later known as the West Dunn Building.
The Technician printed a "Letter to the Editor" and student body at large in which an unnamed student identified himself as gay and found it "frustrating and depressing."
Gay and lesbian students at NC State celebrated National Gay Blue Jeans Day. Signs in the Free Expression Tunnel advertising the event were defaced.
GLCA became an approved student group at NC State. Pastor Willie White served as the group's first advisor.
Stannett became dean of the Graduate School and served in the position until 1982.
With the establishment of the UNC System in 1972, NC State reestablished an independent Graduate School.
Julie Shea won five Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) individual championships in outdoor track.
Willie White was a local minister who started a weekly discussion group for gay and lesbian students at NC State. White later credited students and faculty from NC State with helping him establish the Triangle’s first church founded by LGBT Christians, St. John’s Metropolitan Community Church in Raleigh.
Charles Aycock Poe served as the Friends of the Library President from 1970 to 1971. In 1971, Poe announced the Libraries reached 500,000 volumes due to contributions from the FOL.
The first Friends of the Library Fall Luncheon was held. Guests were invited to bring a book to donate to the library's collections.
Friends of the Library president Henry M. Shaw organized a committee of local industry and business leaders to develop a corporate membership campaign for the Friends of the Library.
Dr. Phyllis Vogel was the first woman hired in the music department, and she established the department's first music theory courses called "Rudiments of Music." She taught composition, women in music, applied piano lessons and more. She conducted the chamber singers and performed in recitals.
Debra Stewart, later dean of the Graduate School, was the first woman appointed full-time tenured professor in the Department of Politics (later political science)
Due to the fire in old Pullen Hall, a new building was built and opened specifically for the music department. The center was named after the first director of music, Percy W. Price, in 1973.
