Found 35 events matching "1953 "
The first Raleigh-Durham TV Fair concluded at Reynolds Coliseum. Stars appearing at the fair included Homer and Jethro of the Breakfast Club and Mrs. Hank Williams.
The Extension Division of NC State College began offering a night class in Elementary Russian.
The new building housing the School of Forestry and the Department of Horticulture was formally dedicated as Kilgore Hall. The building was named in honor of the late Dr. Benjamin Wesley Kilgore. He was the former Dean of Agriculture, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and the first head of North Carolina's Agricultural Extension Service.
The State College Cross Country team became champions during the first year of the ACC. The team also won the ACC championship the following year in 1954.
Burlington Engineering Labs was built as a center for NC State's research reactor. It was named for Burlington Industries, which was a North Carolina-based textile company.
Gardner Hall was built to house the biological sciences and named for O. Max Gardner, State College alumnus and former North Carolina governor. It was built by Biberstein, Bowles, & Meacham.
NC State athletics teams withdrew from the Southern Conference and joined the newly formed Atlantic Coast Conference.
Former Chancellor John Harrelson began an appointment as the head of the university archives collection at the D. H. Hill Jr. Library.
The principal speakers were North Carolina Governor William B. Umstead and President of the Consolidated University Gordon Gray. The baccalaureate sermon was given by Henry I. Loutit, Episcopal Bishop of Southern Florida. Honorary degrees were awarded to Lynton Yates Ballentine, commissioner of Agriculture for North Carolina; Walter Gropius, architect in the Bauhaus style; John Warren Smith, Assistant State Director of Vocational Education in North Carolina; George William Gilette, Colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and Herman Cone, textile manufacturer of Greensboro.
T. B. Lal of India was the first international graduate student to earn a master's degree in Plant Pathology.
Eloise Johansen was first woman to earn a MS degree in botany.
The Department of Sociology was renamed the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
State College admitted two African American graduate students into the School of Engineering: Robert Clemons and Hardy Liston. Clemons became the college's first black graduate. Liston withdrew and didn't complete his degree.
