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FRED CHAPPELL’S DESTINED TAKING GIANT STEPS, P.1 POETIC SALUTATION P. 12 TO TRANSFORM P. 38 RISING HIGHER FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FALL 2017 Volume 19, No. 1 MAGAZINE Main Building and students with daisy chains, 1901 A Salutation to the Alma Mater in this Her Birth Year spoken by the community of all students, past, present, and future FRED CHAPPELL We gather to express all gratitude graced this special 125th For those enduring gifts that we received contents anniversary issue with a From the faithful nurturing Motherhood commemorative poem. He Of our University beloved. is the author of nineteen news front volumes of poetry, four This bright threshold of opportunity 2 University and alumni news and notes story collections and eight Opened promiseful new worlds unknown novels. He has received, To an eager community out take among other awards, the Whose pilgrimage had now begun. 8 UNCG Dance students soar in dance by Martha Graham, Bollingen Prize in Poetry, who visited UNCG several times. Aiken Taylor Award in We learned to study varied aspects of Nature, Poetry, T. S. Eliot Prize, To examine every thought as it occurs, the studio Prix du Meilleur Livre To bear us each as a friendly creature 10 Arts and entertainment Étranger from the On watchful terms with the universe. Académie française, Thomas Wolfe Prize, John Here we discovered the persons that we were, Destined to Transform Tyler Caldwell Award and And glimpsed the persons that we might become, 12 For 125 years, this campus has transformed students’ lives, Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Striding a measured thoroughfare has transformed knowledge and, in turn, has helped Prize. He was the Poet Or marching to a different drum. transform the region and the state. Enjoy a look back. Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002 and To grasp the blessings of liberty we turned 38 Taking Giant Steps, Rising Higher received UNCG’s McIver The pages of our Nation’s storied past, Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. reflects on the university’s Award in 2015. Finding that all the freedoms earned different eras – and looks to the future. His impact on the world Arose from questions, first and last. of letters is seen not only Founded to uphold the Women’s cause, grad tidings in his books but in the 40 many students who have The College enabled us to elevate Class notes and pictures too gone on to successful Those motives of imperfect laws writing and teaching That would abridge their true estate. Cover photography by Katie Loyd. careers. He taught at Inset archival photograph courtesy Martha Blakeney Hodges UNCG for more than With Commerce, Science, Literature, and Art Special Collections & University Archives. 40 years and helped Our College became our University, Photograph on College Avenue by Martin W. Kane. create the MFA in Writing Stepping forward to embrace its part program. A recipient of In our Nation’s history. the UNC system’s highest Visit alumnimagazine.uncg.edu to view the digital version of faculty honor, the O. Max Alma Mater, you we hail; this magazine in PDF format. While there, submit a class note, view video clips Gardner Award, Chappell Forever may your spirit thrive, or click on archives to see former issues. held the Burlington And may your valiant years strongly prevail Industries Professorship Long past your young One Hundred Twenty-five. Visit 125magazine.uncg.edu to see all the anniversary-related items from 1987 to his in this issue - easily shareable via Facebook, Twitter and other social media. – Fred Chappell, professor emeritus retirement in 2004. a uncg magazine ° Fall 2017 University Bell newsfront sports fresh look It’s the same classic UNCG sound. Students heard the clang, clang, clang on the very first day of classes Oct. 5, 1892. When a fire began in Brick Dormitory in 1904, one brave student ran out into the snow, climbed the bell stand, and rang this bell with her hands, alerting her classmates. Everyone was safe. When wars ended, it rang. At Commencement, it rang. Time for students to assemble? It rang. For decades it hung in Anniversary Plaza, where the Vacc Bell Tower now stands. Its clapper was silenced, lest Curry School kids ring it – or so the story goes. This past summer, it got a much-needed spruce-up. As first-year students arrived for 125 years is cause than any other city. It would host a normal FOUNDERS DAY CELEBRATION alumni, students, faculty, staff and the com- NAV1GATE, UNCG’s new convocation, the and industrial school, created primarily to AND CONCERT, OCT. 5 munity to enjoy food, fun, music and games. bell was a uniquely wonderful sight. for celebration educate future school teachers. The historic Quad will be the site of an The bell now sits 48 inches high (to spare its ringers from bending over) on a The school bell rang. Classes It would ultimately become a college afternoon outdoor party – with plenty of BELIEVE IN THE G, FEB. 21-22 OCT. 5, 1892. gleaming walnut wood platform. A 12-inch, were in session. and finally a university. When the UNC sys- “birthday cake” to mark the exact 125th The annual Believe in the G campaign is a bronze academic seal is stamped on either The day marked a bold move. It repre- tem was formed, the campus joined with anniversary of the university’s opening. On 48-hour giving challenge. Show your sup- side of the base. sented the state’s first public higher UNC Chapel Hill and NC State to be the Founders Day evening at UNCG Auditorium, port for the university that has meant so Dr. Kim Sousa-Peoples, director of education opportunity for women. founding members of the system. a performance by Grammy winner and much to so many. New Student Transitions and First Year In the 1880s, educational stalwarts UNCG celebrates these 125 years of alumna Rhiannon Giddens will headline the Experience, enlisted the help of Fred Charles Duncan McIver and Edwin opportunity and excellence with a yearlong year’s University Concert and Lecture REUNION 2018, APRIL 19-21 Patrick, former director of Facilities Design Alderman had traveled the state advocating celebration, which began in June and will Series. Concert ticket information is at If you are a member of the Woman’s and Construction. The two tapped noted for a public college for women. None existed continue through the end of the vpa.uncg.edu/ucls. College Class of 1958 or UNCG’s Class of sculptor Jim Gallucci, a former instructor in the Old North State. academic year. 1968, this is your weekend! Join us for a in the art department, for the base design The state legislature and governor Several events will help commemorate HOMECOMING 2017, OCT. 18-22 special reunion with your classmates. and alumnus Eric Little ’99 MFA, a former approved the initiative. the accomplishments of the past, as we Enjoy events each day. Saturday, Oct. 22, will UNCG carpenter, for the woodwork. Greensboro provided greater incentives look forward to the future. be the biggest party – a great occasion for All are encouraged to share their UNCG stories and memories on social media using “This new frame respects the history of The University Seal displays 1891. On Feb. 18 of that year, the N.C. legislature founded the institution. the hashtag #UNCG125. the bell,” said Sousa-Peoples. “And gives it 1891 or After 18 months – a site and president chosen, buildings designed and constructed, faculty and staff selected, the prominence it deserves.” students matriculated – the campus doors opened. Oct. 5, 1892, was that special day. The Centennial Logo LEARN MORE AND SEE AN ANNIVERSARY FILM 1892? AT THE WEBSITE 125.UNCG.EDU. 25 years ago commemorated 1892. The 125th celebration commemorates that first day of classes as well. Middle, Laura Hill Coit, Class of 1896, and Ezekiel Robinson at the bell. Bottom, bell at Anniversary Plaza. Top, as it appears today. 2 uncg magazine ° Fall 2017 Fall 2017 ° uncg magazine 3 news Spartan seeds are front out of this world Imagine Martian greenhouses teeming with fruits, vegetables and herbs. That’s the ultimate goal of Seedling Growth-3, a joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) experiment led by UNCG’s Dr. John Z. Kiss. The spaceflight experiment, which launched in June, is the third in a series of studies that examine how light and gravity control plant growth and development. “Plants are integral as we plan for long-term What’s the buzz? manned space missions and the development of colonies on the Moon and Mars,” says Kiss, To have bees, or not to have bees? That received a nearly $1 million grant from the biology professor and dean of the UNCG is the globally urgent question. United States Department of Agriculture College of Arts and Sciences. “To make human “One third of all our food depends on (USDA) to investigate honey bees’ natural habitation of other worlds a possibility, we honey bees,” explained UNCG Professor of defenses against the mites. need to be able to grow crops in greenhouses Biology Dr. Olav Rueppell. While a major part of Rueppell’s drive in space.” Honey bees are the most important comes from his innate curiosity about insects NASA recently returned the experimental commercial pollinator both nationally and and the natural world, he also seeks to solve containers of seedlings from the International globally, and in 2000, their impact on food critical problems. Space Station to Kiss’ lab for molecular analy- crops in the U.S. was estimated at $14.6 billion. “I’m particularly satisfied when practical ses. This fall, UNCG students will participate in Researchers at the UNCG Bee Station, relevance meets exciting scientific discovery data collection and analysis.