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- The Centenary Project was established by the Alumni Association in conjunction with history professor Dr. Richard Bardolph in 1980. The purpose of the project was to preserve the memories of female students who graduated from the State Normal and Industrial College, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The interviews focus on alumni who graduated in the early 1900s and include discussions with Gertrude Carraway, Edith Haight, May Williams Hicks, Ethel Harris Kirby, Ione Mebane Mann, Mabel Merritt, Ruth Whittemore Sherrill, and Jane Summerell.
- The UNCG in the 1960s Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted by students in Professor Peter Carmichael's HIS 520: Southern History "Interpreting and Presenting Southern History to the Public" class taught in the Fall of 2006. Students were instructed to interview either an alumni, faculty, or staff member who was associated with The University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the 1960s. Students were asked to focus on a specific issue or event related to the university's history.
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Institutional Memory Collection was established in 2006 by the University Archives to preserve the history of UNCG through oral histories. Archives staff members have interviewed alumni, faculty, and staff to record the untold memories of their experience at the University. The African American Institutional Memory Project, part of the Institutional Memory Collection was established to preserve the memories of the black alumni who attended the college during the 1960s.
- Robert W. Watson (1925-2012) was on the English Department faculty at UNCG from 1953 until his retirement in 1987. He received many literary honors and was the main architect of UNCG's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. The Robert W. Watson Papers date from 1948 to 1980 and contain manuscripts, typescripts, publisher's proofs and galleys, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and reviews.
- This scrapbook, created by Hilda Weil between 1922 and 1926, document's Weil's time as a student at the North Carolina College for Women (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). The scrapbook contains materials and ephemera related to membership in "Orchesus," a class toast to Juniors from Seniors, the 1926 class song lyrics, ephemera related to Weil's membership in the Adelphian Society, a letter announcing a delay in the opening of the college after winter break in 1922, menus from the Hylmore Tea Room and the O. Henry Hotel, materials related to the 1924 fund drive for the building of the Alumni House, newspaper clippings about the Curry Building fire, a history of the "Junior Shop," and materials related to Weil's term as Senior Class president.
- This scrapbook, created by Gladys Taylor Hodges West between 1916 and 1919, documents West's student experience at the State Normal and Industrial College (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). The scrapbook contains photographs of friends and classmates, a Freshman-Sophomore picnic invitation, Cornelian Literary Society ephemera, and Old English Pageant ephemera.
- Lottie Faye West of Dover, North Carolina was a student of Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), graduating in 1941 with a Bachelor's degree in English. While attending Woman's College, West was a member of the Aletheian Society, the Education Club, the Speakers' Club, the Wesley Players, and the Wesley Foundation Council. The Lottie Faye West Scrapbook is a large un-annotated scrapbook that dates from 1939 to 1940. The scrapbook contains event programs (largely concerts, plays, and church events), receipts, college documents, invitations, candy wrappers, correspondence, greeting cards, news clippings, postcards (including one of the Alumni House), tickets, advertisements, notes, and memorabilia including a napkin, button, flier, and party decor. Other contents include ephemera related to West's membership in the Aletheian Society, a "Campus Decorum" pamphlet, a library call slip, a pamphlet titled "Help Yourself! An Aid to Using Library Facilities," a flier and article announcing the Milk Bar Tavern, a milk bottle top for WCUNC milk, English and French exams, and a YWCA membership card.
- Leah Willis of Winston Salem, North Carolina, attended the North Carolina College for Women (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1919-1923. Willis was a member of the Cornelian Literary Society, the YWCA, the American National Red Cross and the Roosevelt Memorial Association. While attending the North Carolina College for Women she was on the Hockey Team her freshman year. Her sophomore year she was a "Carolinian" Reporter, a member of the French Club, and Class Secretary. She was in the House of Representatives her junior year and on the Senate her senior year. She graduated in 1923 with a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics. The scrapbook includes material on the practice home and practice home baby, ephemera related to her membership in the Cornelian Society, a 1920 Red Cross pin, graduation ephemera, an invitation to a tacky clothes party, a Senior Unmusical program, a transcript of her grades, and information relating to being a town student during the 1950s.
- This scrapbook, created by Emily Herring Wilson between 1959 and 1960, contains materials relating to Wilson's student experience at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). This scrapbook contains photographs of campus views, dorm interiors, snow on campus (including Foust Fountain frozen), the 1961 beanie, and 1960 Rat Day.