This issue’s recipe comes from the Murphy Garden Club in Cherokee County, NC. I could not find much information about the club itself, other than it must have been an important social group because I discovered several obituaries where the individual was listed as a charter member. The author of our recipe is Mrs. L. […]

Among the most recent donations of note to the Manuscripts Collection are the papers of Dr. N. Freeman Jones. A native of Reidsville, NC, Dr. Jones received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1950 from Shaw University. After graduating, he served as an eighth-grade teacher at Lincoln Consolidated School in the Rockingham County […]

UNCG 2025 Vanguard Reunion Weekend On Saturday, April 12, SCUA was honored to host the Class of 1969 in the Hodges Reading Room for their Class meeting (below). Department Head Kathelene McCarty Smith created a special display, focusing on artifacts from the years that the alumni were on campus. She also gave them a behind-the-stacks […]

by Beth Ann Koelsch One of SCUA’s collecting focii is documenting local Greensboro history. In honor of springtime, I thought it would be fun to look through a scrapbook appropriate for the season. In the Greensboro Council of Garden Clubs Records, there are eleven scrapbooks. There are two from the Ingleside Garden Club and this […]

Phase One of the Jackson Library renovations is now in full swing. The tower side of the Library has been temporarily sealed off from the original 1950s building facing College Avenue and construction fencing is now visible around the area. As reported in the last newsletter, the Preservation Services Lab has been relocated from Jackson […]

Meet Bonnie Showfety: A Public History Student Working in the Archives Bonnie Showfety recently graduated from the Public History Program at UNCG. She began working for SCUA in August 2023 and during her time with us, she assisted with the Loewenstein Digitization Project and helped to create a LibGuide focusing on UNCG Nursing materials. While […]

UNCG Alumna and Former Faculty Member, Burgin Ross’s Presentation and Exhibit On March 26, 2025, Burgin Ross, Class of 1974 alumna and retired faculty member in the Department of Nutrition, gave a presentation focusing on her time in the Peace Corps and the relationships she built with the Liberian women of the Juarzon community while helping to […]

Congratulations to Our Colleague Stacey Krim for Earning Tenure! We are thrilled to announce that our colleague, Stacey Krim, Curator of Manuscripts & Cello Music, is now officially a tenured professor! Her colleagues did not let this event go by without a celebratory dinner. Kathelene Smith Receives University Libraries’ Faculty Teaching Award Each year the […]