Category: Events
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A Campus Remembers: 9/11 and the North Greenville Community
Twenty-five years ago today, North Greenville students, faculty, and staff gathered around televisions across campus and watched in horror as the events of 9/11 unfolded. In the midst of the fear and chaos happening in the world, the North Greenville community gathered to pray for each other, the families and…
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Faith in the Foothills: How a Little Mountain High School Became a University
“In overcoming the power of darkness, North Greenville has done more good than all the revenue officers and sheriffs combined for a hundred years. In instilling a love for Christ, it has changed the streams once used for whiskey into rivers of baptism.”- Dr. E.B. Crain When the founders of…
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Coupe de Ville and Hollywood’s Visit to Tigerville
The following story was printed in the August 1989 edition of the North Greenville College Newsletter. The pictures in the slideshow below were taken by NGC staff and are housed in the NGU Archive. Travelers probably had to check their road maps twice at the intersection of South Carolina highways…
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Dancing Around the Maypole: A History of May Day at North Greenville
May in the Upstate of South Carolina is filled with flowers blooming, warm breezes, and the smell of Magnolia in the air. Throughout the country, students from grade school to college have celebrated May 1st through May Day celebrations. May Day has its long roots in Europe, when people would…
