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Month: August 2024
Mary Sue Beam College Scrapbooks
by Kathelene McCarty Smith Mary Sue Beam was a student at the North Carolina College for Women (now UNC Greensboro) between 1919 to 1923. These were important years in the history of the campus and the country. When Mary Sue left her home in Shelby, North Carolina, to attend the small women’s college in the […]
Student Success: Odelys Morales-Sierra
I began working at SCUA in May 2024, and it has quickly become one of my favorite positions. The experience has been immensely rewarding, particularly my involvement with the North Carolina Literary Map project. It has been incredibly enjoyable to discover new authors and literary figures that I had never encountered before. This project has […]
Cooking Through the Counties : Honey Wheat Bread from Dare County, NC
Rare Book Curator, Carolyn Shankle, is cooking her way through SCUA’s vast North Carolina Cookbook Collection! She will have a new recipe each quarterly newsletter. For this installment of Cooking Through the Counties, we’re passing through Dare County, North Carolina, to make Shirley B.’s recipe, Honey-Wheat Bread. This recipe comes to us from the God Willing […]
Instruction: Summer 2024
KIN Ed Students Visit SCUA In June, SCUA hosted a group of KIN Ed students who were visiting campus for their in-person orientation. They viewed a pop-up exhibit and heard a presentation by Kathelene McCarty Smith related to the history of physical education at UNC Greensboro. The exhibit included early gym suits, artifacts, and images, […]
ABC OF BUGS AND PLANTS IN A NORTHERN GARDEN by Judy Fairclough Sgantas
by Audrey Sage I find summertime to be one of the most exciting times of the year because it affords the opportunity to witness the abundance and proliferation of insects and plant life in the garden. This wonderful artist book “ABC of Bugs and Plants in a Northern Garden” is filled with fantastic information and […]
The Restoration of Letters from New York
by Audrey Sage The Special Collections contains a copy of Letters from New York by L. Maria Child, which was published in 1845 by C. S. Frances & Co. in New York. Other works by L. Maria Child include Philothea: A Grecian Romance, History of Women, The Mother’s Book, and Flowers for Children. Prominent author […]
SCUA NEWS: SUMMER 2024
FLASHBACK TO THE 1940s On July 6, 2024, Kathelene McCarty Smith and Beth Ann Koelsch participated in the Greensboro History Museum’s second “Forties Flashback Family Fun Day.” Kathelene spoke about Woman’s College (now UNCG) Dean Harriet Elliott’s contributions to World War II. Beth Ann gave a presentation about American Red Cross Recreation worker Jean Moore […]
NEW ACQUISITIONS: SUMMER 2024
MANUSCRIPTS ANNE WALL THOMAS PAPERS Anne Wall Thomas was a Class of 1949 alumna of Woman’s College. Thomas graduated from Lilesville High School and earned a BFA and MFA from Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, now UNC Greensboro. Her teaching career began in the public schools of Oxford, NC, and continued in […]
