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UNCW Origins -- Wilmington College

This guide will help you find information about Wilmington College, the institution that preceded UNCW from 1947-1969.

Government Publications

Listed here are some publications including information about Wilmington College that are available in the North Carolina State Government Publications Collection.

North Carolina College Centers: September 1946 to June 1949
Published by the NC Department of Public Instruction in cooperation with the Veterans Administration in 1949
Fact book on higher education in North Carolina : prepared for the Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School
1962
The report of the Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School
Published in 1962 with illustrations. Also known as the Carlyle Report.
Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Trustees, University of North Carolina
Published in 1962, with appended statements by Thomas J. Pearsall and William Friday
Report on proposal of University of North Carolina to add campuses at Asheville and Wilmington
Published by the North Carolina Board of Higher Education in 1969
Statistical abstract of higher education in North Carolina
First issued by the North Carolina Board of Higher Education in 1968 and continued by the University of North Carolina System.
A study of the need for additional campuses of the University of North Carolina to be located at Asheville and Wilmington
1968
Summaries of annual academic and administrative reports to North Carolina Board of Higher Education from North Carolina tax-supported higher education institutions
Higher education statistics in North Carolina, 1965 December

Other Published Works

My Restless Journey by Bertha Boykin Todd, edited by Rhonda Bellamy
Call Number: LA2317.T66 A3 2010
Publication Date: 2010
The Multicampus University of North Carolina Comes of Age, 1956-1986 by Arnold K. King
Call Number: LD 3929 .K56 1987
ISBN: 0961795409
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
Also available online
Giving Flight to Imagination: 70 Years of Excellence by Thomas R. Hart
Call Number: LD3962.9 .H37 2017
ISBN: 9780692926734
Publication Date: 2017-10-25
From These Beginnings: Wilmington College, 1946-1969 by J. Marshall Crews, edited by Mary Duex Dodson
Call Number: LD3973 .C7 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Also available online

Other Digital Publications

Highlights of Our History
By Sue Ann Cody. Time fame: 1946-1983
Memoirs by William Rand Kenan, Jr.
"Incidents by the Way: Lifetime recollections" by William Rand Kenan, whose family has donated to Wilmington College and UNCW.
New Hanover County and Wilmington City Schools Handbook for School Personnel
Published by the Board of Education, Wilmington, NC, 1951-1952. Covers primary, secondary, and post-secondary education in New Hanover County.

Memories of Wilmington College by J. Marshall Crews (.pdf)
Recorded memories by J. Marshall Crews, mathematics professor and administrator. 2002.

The Willistonian
The Williston High School Yearbook includes coverage of Williston College, such as photographs of students and faculty and information about curricula.
UNCW Seahawk Stories: 70 Years of Excellence
"In partnership with the StarNews, it is with great pleasure that we bring you this special keepsake of our university's 70th anniversary. We are so happy to have this opportunity to share the stories of just a few Seahawks who have made UNCW what it is, then and now" --Chancellor Jose V. Sartarelli p. [3].