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The Stud: A History of Student Centers at North Greenville
Generations of students have enjoyed various student centers throughout the school’s history. Affectionately called “The Stud”, the student centers have provided a place for students to fellowship, play, eat, and study. The first student center at North Greenville was in a house that had once belonged to Benjamin F. Neves, one of the North Greenville… Read more
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Turner Chapel: A History
Gathering spaces have always been an important part of North Greenville. When the founders constructed the first main building on campus, they designed the building so that the walls could be taken down and the entire first floor could be used as a gathering space for the school. The same concept was used when the… Read more
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From Moonshiners to Trailblazers: A History of North Greenville Mascots
The Moonshiners (1920-1949) Prior to 1920, we have no evidence of any school mascot. There were sports teams, but they were always called by the school’s name in news stories and in the yearbooks. In 1920, North Greenville printed the first yearbook since 1913 and titled it, “The Moonshiner”. While this was the name of… Read more
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Professor and Poet: Bernard Meredith
“Students think specialization is what college is about. That’s not college. We need to make good citizens, people who can speak, think, and write clearly and coherently. We need to round out the whole person. Education is both intellectual and spiritual. How can a professor teach literature without a knowledge of a man’s deeper being?… Read more
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North Greenville’s Literary Magazine: The Mountain Laurel
The archive’s student worker, Laura Cervantez, guest wrote today’s post on the history of the Mountain Laurel. Laura is a sophomore Studio Art major with a Psychology minor here at North Greenville. She’s enjoyed being part of the Mountain Laurel staff over the past two years and getting to see the talent across campus. Laura… Read more
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Lawton Hall
Throughout the 1950s, the enrollment numbers at North Greenville continued to grow. Taylor Hall was the only men’s dorm on campus that was built to be a dorm, but it could not accommodate every male resident student, and a committee from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools had termed the dorm “hazardous” after their… Read more
From These Roots 