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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
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North Greenville’s First Academic Dean and Co-Founder: Dr. Samuel Miller Lawton
“Among Mr. Lawton’s most valued characteristics are his steadfast refusal to be discouraged, his persistence, his determination, his genuine appreciation of deep spiritual values, and his constant sense of humor which has served him and his colleagues well in tiding over many a discouraging situation.” – The Greenville News, May 28, 1939 Dr. Samuel Miller… Read more
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The Heart of Campus: Hester Memorial Library
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”― Shelby Foote When principal O.J. Peterson came to North Greenville, there was only one building on campus and a school library was just a dream. In the spring of 1901, Mr. Peterson organized the A.C.H. (Amicitia, Cultura, Humanitas) Literary Society. The group was organized… Read more
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North Greenville’s First Historian: Jean Martin Flynn
“This year, more than ever, North Greenville has taken its place among the colleges of the state and of the South because of, to a large extent, a book, ‘A History of North Greenville Junior College’, by Jean Martin Flynn. It is Miss Flynn’s interest in this school and in its students that has helped… Read more
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Alice Stockton Lawton: A Co-Founder of North Greenville Junior College
“In the company of the admirable ones who came into our world bereft of the gift of sight, there is no more heroic one than Dr. Sam M. Lawton of South Carolina. His academic degrees reveal accomplishments which would have been heroic for the sighted ones of us–Bachelor of Arts, graduate in Theology, Master of… Read more
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