Virginia Terrell Lathrop papers, 1949-1974.

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Virginia Terrell Lathrop papers, 1949-1974.

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The Virginia Tarrell Lathrop papers contain seven archival boxes of correspondence, memos, notes, miscellaneous printed items relating to Mrs. Lathrop's tenure as Trustee of the University of North Carolina, and one gray archival box of typescripts for Educate a Woman and Bricks and People. The collection contains material related to the academic, administrative, business, and student affairs on the sixteen campuses and is arranged alphabetically by subject. Boxes 6 and 7 deal specifically with the controversy surrounding Dr. Jack Carlton's administration of Western Carolina University. (Note: papers concerning this controversy were given in 1975 with the restriction that they not be opened for 15 years. As of 1990, these papers are unrestricted). Box 8 contains: the original typescript with handwritten corrections and notations (146 leaves) for Educate a Woman (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1942), a pictorial history of Woman's College from its beginning in 1891 up to World War II; the typescript and a photocopy with handwritten corrections (64 leaves) for Bricks and People : A Walking Guide to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1973), co-authored with Marguerite Schumann; and "February 18, 1891," an historical sketch presented at the seventy-fifth anniversary convocation, February 18, 1966 in Aycock Auditorium. (For additional biographical information see Alumni News, Winter 1975, p. 19).

8 boxes.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, UNCG University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7492069

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, UNCG University Libraries

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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University of North Carolina (System). Board of Trustees

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With the creation in 1932 of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro, the North Carolina General Assembly appointed a new hundred-member Board of Trustees as its government body. From the description of Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1932-1972 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 43371770 With the creation in 1932 of the Consolidat...

Lathrop, Virginia Terrell.

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Lathrop, Virginia Terrell, 1902-1974

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Virginia Terrell Lathrop (1902-1974) was born near Raleigh, N.C. and graduated from the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG) in 1923. She worked as a journalist for the Raleigh News and Observer, the Asheville Citizen, the New York Post, and in the London and Paris offices of the New York Herald Tribune. From 1937 to 1941 she headed the Woman's College News Bureau. She served on the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina from 1949 until her death, was appointed...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees

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The Board of Trustees, elected by the North Carolina General Assembly, was the governing body of the University of North Carolina from its chartering in 1789 until 1932, when the Consolidated University of North Carolina system was created. From the description of Records of the Board of Trustees, 1789-1932. WorldCat record id: 56071309 This forty-member board, elected by the North Carolina General Assembly, was the governing body of the University of North Carolina from its...