SCUA News
Special Collections and University Archives
Month: October 2016
Happy Halloween from SCUA!!
In addition to our annual sharing of UNCG Ghost Stories, we wanted to show off additional fun and spooky items from our collections for Halloween! Enjoy this selection of fabulous covers from books in our American Women’s Detective Fiction Collection: Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1941 Philadelphia […]
Ennio Bolognini Joins the Cellists Represented in the UNCG Cello Music Collection
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections &University Archives is pleased to announce the addition of Ennio Bolognini’s personal papers, photographs, and artifacts to the UNCG Cello Music Collection. Ennio Bolognini (1893-1979) was an Argentine-born cellist, composer, conductor, pilot, and professional boxer. Referred by Pablo Casals as “The greatest cello talent I ever heard in my […]
Happy Founders Day, UNCG!
October 5th is the day we celebrate Founders Day and the opening of the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) in 1892. Here are some fun UNCG Founders Day trivia facts for you! On October 12, 1909, the first official Founder’s Day was dedicated to the memory of State Normal founder and President Charles […]
A Testimony through Music: The Compositions of Lev Aronson. Cellist, Teacher, and Holocaust Survivor
Lev Aronson is remembered as a distinguished cellist, teacher, and survivor of the Holocaust. Born February 7, 1912 in München Gladbach (now Mönchengladbach), Germany, the story of Aronson’s life and music serve as inspiration for countless students and fans, well beyond his death in 1988. With his family forced from their home in Latvia during […]
