Images from Meet the Pack Day
The N&O has nearly 100 photos from Meet the Pack Day this weekend, including some nice shots of Carter-Finley Stadium and the new field. Looks like it was a great turnout. Can’t wait until Thursday night!
August 2009
Recent Grads, Friends Take to the Appalachian Trail
Fred Gunther graduated from NC State in May, and he’s spent that time since hiking the Appalachian Trail with Madison Driver ’08. They started their hike in Amicalola Falls State Park, Georgia, on May 10 and plan to reach Maine on Sept. 9. You can follow them and see photos of their adventure on their blog, Mountains Under Foot. Here’s a portion of their first blog entry in which Fred writes about how the trip came to be:
[I]t begins with your classic story of a couple of guys talking about the future over some over-sized burgers in downtown Raleigh. Madison was graduating from NC State the following semester (Spring ’08) and had intended to start the hike immediately afterwards. I still had another two semesters left because of all the co-oping I did throughout college but did not want to miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime. Maybe it was the one-pound burger I had just eaten or maybe I realized that there was no better time in my life to make this happen, but I said to Madison, “Buddy, if you can wait for me to graduate, I will hike the AT with you.”
Photo of the Day
The North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College's football team in 1895. In the school's fourth year of football, the team finished 1-2-1. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
NC State’s Special Collections Research Center has thousands of images in its online database that you can view.
Do you have an NC State photo you think might make a good photo of the day? Send it to us at alumniblog@gw.ncsu.edu!
Photo of the Day
The NC State Monogram Club in 1933. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
NC State’s Special Collections Research Center has thousands of images in its online database that you can view.
Do you have an NC State photo you think might make a good photo of the day? Send it to us at alumniblog@gw.ncsu.edu!
Goodnight Raleigh Looks Into Another Wall of Colors
We’ve mentioned it before, but Goodnight Raleigh! is a fun blog that always has some interesting items about Raleigh’s past and present (like the two sets of pics of the NC State steam tunnels). One of its contributors, Karl Larson, who’s helping to lead the effort restore the Color Wall in D.H. Hill, has been researching that piece’s creator. Turns out NC State design prof Joe Cox had another work just right down the street at a BB&T branch. The bank’s still there, but the mural has been removed.
Forty-seven years ago next month, Branch Banking and Trust Company opened its “State College Office” at the corner of Hillsborough St. and Oberlin Rd. The ribbon cutting ceremony was held with great fanfare, with the mayor of Raleigh, the chancellor of NC State and the president of BB&T in attendance. Though the pick and shovel groundbreaking had occurred several months earlier, the bank’s opening “broke ground” in another, more significant way — it was the first Raleigh bank to feature a work of public art as an integral part of its design — a dazzling stained glass mural. “The mural represents the growing cooperation between artist and architect that is rapidly spreading throughout the country,” the N&O reported in an article on the event in 1962.
State Auditor Releases Report About Easley’s Salary
State Auditor Beth Wood released today an interim report — a follow-up to a January audit — about her office’s investigation into the salary and raise of Mary Easley, wife of former N.C. Gov. Mike Easley. From the report:
“The preliminary finding expresses the conclusion that Ms. Easley’s salary [$170,000] was excessive. However, the University’s response and further consideration have raised valid concerns about the conclusion, at least to the amount considered excessive.”
Read the report (PDF).
An Update on the Plaque from Iran
A few of our readers here and on our Facebook page asked us about the whereabouts of a plaque that was in our Photo of the Day last Thursday. It was given to the university by an Iranian alumnus in 1966. We were able to track it down to the lobby of Primrose Hall, one of the oldest buildings on campus and, today, home to the university’s real estate office. One of our interns snapped this photo while she was on Main Campus yesterday. Click on it, and you can see the plaque in great detail. If anyone knows Persian, let us know what the inscription says.
Photo of the Day
Frank H. Jeter, director of the Department of Agricultural Information at NC State, on the telephone in 1950. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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Do you have an NC State photo you think might make a good photo of the day? Send it to us at alumniblog@gw.ncsu.edu!
Checking in from Hawaii
We have alumni everywhere. This image came to us recently from Kevin Lye ‘94, who lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and who went to the first Honolulu all-ACC picnic. We sent him some NC State items to make sure the Wolfpack was represented. Kevin, who also earned a medical degree from Wake Forest, writes:
After the attendees reached critical mass, a three-lap spoon-carried color-dyed egg race commenced, pitting four groups of schools against one another on the grassy field at the park next to the War Memorial Natatorium.
As the only alum from NC State, I paired with the two other Wake Forest alumni in attendance. Our red-colored egg made the trip down and back three times with speedy handoffs [spoonoffs?] and our team was victorious over the rascals from Chapel Hill, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Georgia Tech. [There were no alumni from Duke present at the event; it was rumored that they were all busy complaining to officials somewhere.]
Got any NC State pictures you’d like to share? Send them to us at alumniblog@gw.ncsu.edu.
Photo of the Day
NC State shot-putter George Vollmar '61 in 1961. Vollmar also played football for the Wolfpack. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
NC State’s Special Collections Research Center has thousands of images in its online database that you can view.
Do you have an NC State photo you think might make a good photo of the day? Send it to us at alumniblog@gw.ncsu.edu!
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