SCUA News
Special Collections and University Archives
Month: February 2025
SCUA PROGRAMMING- Winter 2024/25
CREATIVITY COMMONS EVENT FOR VALENTINE’S DAY On Friday, February 14th, 2025, Suzanne Helms and Carolyn Shankle hosted a special Valentine Edition of Creativity Commons. The event was open to all Library personnel, including student workers. Participants had the option of two creative card designs to make for their special someone! WITH LOVE FROM SCUA On February 13, […]
JACKSON LIBRARY RENOVATIONS UPDATE
The long-awaited renovations to Jackson Library have kicked into high gear. On January 2, 2025, movers began shrink wrapping, loading, and moving books from the Jackson Library Tower. The Tower as well as the EUC Connector entrance to Jackson are closed to the public, with access to the building, collections, and other library services provided […]
SCUA CALENDAR
Please join us for our upcoming events: MARCH 2025: March 3 – April 4, 2025 Exhibit – “LIP SERVICE: Spilling the Snake Oils of Women’s Health and Wellness Products” on the Jackson Library ground floor curated by Hodges Fellow Cecil Barlow. March 20, 2025 at 2 pm Program – Cecil Barlow will discuss his process […]
COOKING THROUGH THE COUNTIES
MAYONNAISE BISCUITS FROM APPALACHIAN DISTRICT HOSPICE This newsletter’s recipe comes from Cherished Recipes From the Kitchen of: Appalachian District Hospice (1993) which includes Alleghany, Ashe, and Watauga counties. The governing agency is now known as AppHealthCare and you can read more about the services that they currently offer here. The recipe that I chose to […]
SCUA INSTRUCTION – Winter 2024/25
SCUA staff teach class sessions across many campus departments and programs, incorporating primary sources from our collections. These sessions give students the opportunity to learn from “hands-on” experiences with archival materials. Some of the notable classes and instructional opportunities this quarter include: Art 344: Imaging I Undergraduate students in Kelley O’Brien’s ART 344 Imaging I […]
SCRAPBOOK SPOTLIGHT
The “NINA M.H.” SCRAPBOOK MYSTERY BY HERMANN TROJANOWSKI My name is Hermann Trojanowski, and I am the former Special Projects Archivist at UNCG’s Special Collections and University Archives Department (SCUA). One of the projects on which I worked while at SCUA was conducting oral history interviews for the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project […]
NEW ACQUISITIONS – WINTER 2025
RARE BOOKS ADDITIONS TO THE ARTISTS’ BOOK COLLECTION Two Recent Works by Letterpress Printer, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Freshly commissioned for the launch of the Citizen Printer, Sista Said features two sets of 20 inspiring quotations, each accompanied by a unique background. These quotations are reproduced using offset printing and are presented in an elegant […]
STUDENT SUCCESS: CECIL BARLOW
Hello! I’m the 2024-2025 Hodges Fellow at SCUA, having started in August. This is not my first time at SCUA—I started here as a processing assistant for University Archives in my sophomore year, meaning this is year two for me! This year I am here as a Hodges Fellow—a program that provides one semester of […]
SCUA NEWS – WINTER 2025
CLASS OF 1962 RING UPDATE Following up on the gripping “The Mystery of the 1962 Women’s College Ring” story from the last issue of the SCUA Quarterly, the second ring and its owner have been reunited! Beth Ann Koelsch tracked down (once again thanks to the 1962 Women’s College Yearbook and the internet) the owner […]
FERN BISEL PEAT – ILLUSTRATOR
by Audrey Sage Within a recent donation to the Special Collections, we received a copy of “The Night Before Christmas”, published in 1936 by the Saalfield Publishing Company of Aakron, Ohio. This wonderful edition was illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat, a very talented and popular illustrator in the early 20th century. “Fern Bisel was born […]