Found 329 events matching "year:[1970 TO 1979]"
NC State won the Atlantic Coast Conference Swimming championship with the largest number of points ever scored and broke seven swimming records in the process.
The Talley Student Center opened in June 1972 (shown here before the installation of the fountain and courtyard). It replaced the Erdahl-Cloyd building, now the west wing of D.H. Hill Jr. Library, as the campus student center.
Stewart Theatre hosted the George Faison Universal Dance Experience.
Willie Burden and Charley Young became the first African American students to receive full football scholarships as incoming freshmen.
Augustus M. Witherspoon became the second African American to earn a PhD at NC State. He received a PhD in botany and was the first African American to receive a doctoral degree and then join the faculty.
NC State published "In a Black Perspective." This pamphlet totaled the university's black community at nine professors and 222 students (out of a total 13,809). The publication listed courses focusing on black history and culture: two in political Science and one on race relations in sociology.
William Maxwell became an assistant dean in the School of Education and NC State's first African American academic administrator.
The university's affirmative action plan was informally accepted by the Health, Education, and Welfare Department (HEW).
Ted Brown became the first African American player named an All-American in football. In 2012, he was inducted into the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame.
The NC State football team beat West Virginia in the Peach Bowl, 49-13.
Jane Carol Pickard was the first woman honored for graduating with the highest grade point average. Every year at commencement, NC State honored the student graduating with this achievement.
Nannette Smith Henderson was the first African American woman awarded a PhD at NC State with a degree in plant pathology.
A women's basketball team was established for the first time. The team included two African American women, Gwen Jenkins and Cynthia Steele.
Kathy Bounds, Deb Webb, and Genie Jordan organized a basketball club for women.
A chapter of Delta Sigma Theta was established as the first African American sorority chapter on campus.
Susan Yow with the women's basketball program became the first NC State woman to be named an All-American athlete.
Curt Fentress graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture. His firm designed buildings such as as the Denver International Airport passenger terminal, Incheon International Airport in South Korea, Arraya Tower in Kuwait City, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, and Terminal 2 at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
