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The L. R. Harrill Papers contain writings, speeches, journals, personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, certificates of merit and appreciation, agricultural publications, and mementoes that are associated with Harrill's student days at North Carolina State College and his long tenure, 1926-1963, as the director of North Carolina's statewide 4-H program, the largest in the nation. The material provides insight into Harrill's personal life and documents his involvement with the 4-H movement on a local, national, and international level, including the International Farm Youth Exchange. Represented are letters Harrill wrote as a student at North Carolina State College to his mother and father from 1918 to 1922. L. R. (Lera Rhinehart) Harrill (1897-1978) was director of North Carolina's statewide 4-H program from 1926 until 1963. Less

Recollections and other material documenting the life and career of L. A. (Larry Alston) Whitford. These include original class notes, 1921-1925, for North Carolina State College courses in botany, agriculture, anatomy, and physics. Also included are materials collected by James R. Troyer when he wrote a biographical article about Whitford. L. A. (Larry Alston) Whitford (1902-1995) was associated with North Carolina State University through most of his higher education and career. Whitford earned an undergraduate degree in biology from North Carolina State College in 1925 and an M.S. in 1929. He went on to serve as a botany professor from 1926 to 1968, specializing in the study of phycology. Less

The Larry K. Monteith Papers contain correspondence, reports, proposals, published articles, newspaper clippings, speeches, and artifacts. The collection spans Monteith's career at North Carolina State University, including material from 1933 to 1998. It covers his tenure as undergraduate, faculty member, dean, interim Chancellor, and Chancellor at the University. The primary focuses of the collection are the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), his research publications as an electrical engineer, and his speeches as Chancellor. Larry King Monteith enrolled at North Carolina State University in 1956, receiving a BS (1960) in electrical engineering. He then received an MS (1962) degree and a PhD (1965) from Duke University in electrical engineering. After holding positions at Bell Telephone Laboratories, analyzing the NIKE missile system, and participating in a semiconductor research group, Monteith joined the faculty of North Carolina State University's Electrical Engineering Department. He became department head in 1974. He was named dean of the School of Engineering in 1978 and was named chancellor of North Carolina State University in May 1990 after serving as interim chancellor for a year. Monteith retired in 1998. Less

The Lawrence Earl Hinkle papers include correspondence, writings, lecture notes, publications, and academic journals, 1853 to 1964. It chiefly documents Hinkle's career as an educator and linguist at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University), 1915-1955. Educator and linguist, Lawrence Earl Hinkle served as Assistant Professor of Modern Languages to Professor of Modern Languages at North Carolina State College from 1915 until his retirement in 1955 and as Head of the Department of Modern Languages beginning in 1922. At North Carolina State, he established the Translation Service, founded Sigma Pi Alpha, a national honorary language fraternity, and revised the registration and final examination system. Less

The Lee Marshall Smith Papers document Smith's career as a reporter, film critic, newspaper editor, educator and novelist. Also documented are some of Smith's numerous awards and honors, including the Robert Penn Warren Fiction Prize in 1991 and the North Carolina Award for Fiction in 1984. Subject files contain biographical information, including a vita, documentation from her time as Writer-In-Residence at Hollins College, and correspondence with her publishers (Harper and Row, 1968-1973). The Writings series includes extensive drafts of Smith's writings, including typescripts, manuscripts, reproductions, and handwritten notes. Among Smith's published novels are Black Mountain Breakdown (1981), Oral History (1983) , Fair and Tender Ladies (1988), The Devil's Dream (1992), Saving Grace (1995), and The Last Girls (2002). Her short stories include "Mom (Life As We Knew It)", "The French Revolution, A Love Story", "Bob, A Dog", "Me and My Baby View the Eclipse" (with accompanying artwork) and "Camera Obscura". The collection also contains plays adapted from Smith's novels and short stories. A Reviews series includes reviews and critical essays about Smith's work from 1968 to the present. The Audiovisual Materials series includes sound tapes (Lee Smith reading from books and short stories, radio interviews, etc.), a compact disc, and VHS tapes. A popular author of novels and short stories, Lee Smith earned a B.A. in English from Hollins College in 1967. Immediately after college she worked as a reporter for the Richmond News Leader and the Tuscaloosa News. Smith was an English teacher at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, 1971-1975, and at the Carolina Friends School in North Carolina, 1975-1977. She taught creative writing at Duke University in 1977 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978-1981. From 1979 to 1980 she was the director of a summer writing workshop for the University of Virginia. In 1981, she came to North Carolina State University, where she taught for 19 years. Less

The Leif Valand Architectural Papers consists of architectural drawings and small number of related items (correspondence, awards, and others). The blueprints of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church are of particular significance; Valand designed this African-American church in 1963. There is also a set of blueprints (18) for house plan types for Cameron Village. There are nine blueprints and one architectural drawing dating from 1951 of Mr. Everett Case's residence located in Cameron Village, Raleigh, North Carolina. Everett Case (1900-1966) was the North Carolina State University basketball coach from 1946 to 1964. Case led the Wolfpack to win nine straight conference titles in his first nine years, six straight Southern Conference titles, and four Atlantic Coast Conference titles. Leif Valand (1915-1985) was a prominent Raleigh architect from the late 1940s to the 1970s. He was born in Norway and immigrated to New York as a boy. Valand attended the Pratt Institute in New York City and then practiced architecture in Scarsdale, New York, prior to moving to Raleigh in the late 1940s to work on the Cameron Village Shopping Center. In his heyday, Valand was the most prolific architect in Raleigh. Some of his other works include the Cameron Village Office Buildings and Apartments, Enloe High School, the Federal Building on New Bern Ave, North Ridge Country Club, North Hills Shopping Center, the Velvet Cloak Hotel, the Central Raleigh YMCA, the State Administration Building, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, the Raleigh Women's Club, and many private residences. Less

The Leslie N. Boney Architectural Papers document the work of Wilmington, North Carolina, architects Leslie N. Boney Sr., and Leslie N. Boney Jr. from projects done in conjunction with architect James F. Gause in the 1920s through projects of Boney Architects, Inc., in the 1980s. Educational institution plans make up a significant portion of the project files in this collection, representing schools from the elementary through university levels. The firm's architectural projects also include churches, banks, residences, offices, libraries, and retail establishments. The vast majority of these buildings are located in North Carolina, especially in the eastern part of the state, though a small number of South Carolina projects are included as well. These project files include correspondence, inspection reports, drawings, blueprints, project specifications, photographs, contracts, and bid data and forms. Personal papers of Leslie N. Boney Sr., make up a small part of this collection, and include copies of textiles, chemistry, and English exams dating from 1901 to 1903, belonging to Leslie N. Boney Sr., C. L. Creech, and O. Max Gardner. A copy of Boney Sr.'s account of the 1901 fire that destroyed NC State University's original Watauga Hall, as printed in the 1903 Agromeck, is also included. North Carolina native Leslie N. Boney Sr. (1880-1964) graduated from the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) in 1903 with a degree in textile engineering. Boney joined Wilmington architect James F. Gause as a partner in practice in 1918, then took over the practice in 1922, upon Gause's retirement. Boney's eldest son, Leslie N. Boney Jr. (1920-2003), joined his father's practice after graduating from the College of Engineering at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1940 with a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering. Boney Jr. served in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, earning the rank of major, and returned to his family's architectural practice following the war. Boney Jr. was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, served as president of North Carolina's chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and was a recipient of North Carolina State University's prestigious Watauga Medal in 1996. Less

The Lewis Clarke Collection, 1944 to 2006, documents the professional work of Lewis Clarke and his firm Lewis Clarke Associates as well as Clarke's time as a North Carolina State University School of Design faculty member from 1952 to 1968. The collection is arranged into eight series: project files, drawings, professional papers, faculty papers, personal papers, office files, project booklets, and photographic materials. The collection consists primarily of landscape architectural drawings and project files. The projects include residences, primary and secondary schools, community colleges, university campuses, regional hospitals, shopping centers, residential resort projects, and pedestrian malls. The drawings and project files represent projects located primarily, but not exclusively, throughout the southeast. Lewis James Clarke was born in Carlton, Nottingham, England on 10 March 1927. He earned a Master's degree in Architecture at the University of Leicester, Master's in Landscape Design from Kings College at the University of Durham, and received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Smith-Mundt Award to attend Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design to earn a Master's in Landscape Architecture in 1952. Clarke taught as an associate professor at the North Carolina State College School of Design (SOD), from 1952 to 1968. He operated his landscape architecture firm, Lewis Clarke Associates, from 1968 to 1993, working on projects such as community colleges in North Carolina and Virginia, residential resort master planning, and prototype enclosed mall projects. He created the original master plans for the Research Triangle Institute; Saint Andrews College, Laurinburg, North Carolina; and the North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro. His signature works include Palmetto Dunes, Hilton Head Island; Carolina Trace, Sanford, North Carolina; and Ford’s Colony, Williamsburg, Virginia. Clarke retired in 2000 and passed away in 2021 at the age of 94. Less

The Ligon Flynn Papers consists of architectural drawings, extensive project files and related architectural records. Notable projects documented in the collection include residences on Figure Eight Island, such as the Jones, Mahan, Bell, Hughes, Ellison, and Monroe houses; as well as the NC State University Student Center annex; Lower Cape Fear Hospice, St. John’s Museum of Art, and Flynn's own office at 15 S. Second St. in Wilmington, N.C. The collection also includes the notebooks of Ligon Flynn’s associate, Harold Garriss, whose seven 120-sheet spiral notebooks cover the years 1981 to 1993. Ligon Flynn (1931-2010) was born near Tryon, North Carolina. He graduated from the School of Design at what was then North Carolina State College in 1959 and taught at the School of Design from 1963 to 1967 while also in private practice. In 1969, he founded the firm of Ligon B. Flynn, Architect, in Raleigh. The firm moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 1972. Flynn’s firm mainly designed private residences, including a number of houses on Figure Eight Island. He also worked on public buildings, including the in-patient facility for the Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Life Care Center and a number of projects at North Carolina State University. Flynn won six design awards from the North Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In 1993, he received the Kamphoefner Prize from the N.C. Architecture Foundation. In 2007, he authored a book of photographs titled Tobacco Barns. He retired in 2009. Less

The Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas Papers include research and lecture notes, class notes, personal papers, research papers (published and unpublished), some correspondence, documentation of consulting work, drafts of supervised student theses and dissertations, course outlines, examinations, memoranda, laboratory notes, symposiums, and miscellaneous papers. The bulk of this collection documents Thomas' academic teaching career, consisting of holograph and typed notes, most undated, on research for Thomas' physics lectures at Columbia University, Ohio State University, and North Carolina State University; also his student notes (2 boxes), taken at Cambridge University (England) physics lectures, 1921-1925, given by Bromwich, Eddington, Fowler, Littlewood, Pollard, and Ramsay, among others; published work (research published in journals), 1929-1982 (1 box); consulting for IBM and Timken Steel and Tube Company; symposiums, 1980-1985 (3 folders); personal papers (1 folder): professional diplomas and certificates as well as Lewis/Thomas family genealogy; and biographical information (1 folder). Topics: atomic physics, computer capacity, difference equations, electrodynamics, electron scattering, electronic structure of atoms and molecules, Fourier analysis, general dynamics, group theory, hydrodynamics, mathematics, physics, plasma (physics) quantum electrodynamics, quantum theory, quantum mechanics, relativity field theory, statistical mechanics, theoretical phy sics, among others. Correspondents: G. Bessis, Biedenharn, Dahl, Eichelberger, Grosch, Andrew Kollchoubey, Rolf Landauer, Lief, Robert Newton, among others. Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas (1903-1992). Physicist (atomic physics, nuclear, atomic and molecular structure, astrophysics). On the physics faculty at Ohio State University (1929-1943, 1945-1946); physicist and ballistician, Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (1943-1945); on the physics faculty at Columbia University from 1950, member of senior staff of Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory established by IBM at Columbia; professor at North Carolina State University from 1968. Thomas is best remembered for his work on atomic physics, particularly the development of the statistical model of the atom; concurrently developed by Enrico Fermi the model is known as the Thomas-Fermi model. Less

The Llewellyn L. Hewett Papers contain notebooks with class notes; certificates from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; information about systems functions connected with the Saturn V/Apollo Mission; photographs, predominantly of spacecraft; correspondence; newspaper clippings; publications such as "Spaceport News" 24 April 1981; a manuscript of an unfinished historical novel (the account seems to be autobiographical); and college annuals from Mars Hill College, 1950 and Wilmington College, 1951. Llewellyn L. Hewett, an electrical engineer, worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), contributing to the first manned orbital flight of the space shuttle, Columbia (STS-1), on April 12-13, 1981. Hewett worked specifically with the Planning Research Corporation’s (PRC) design engineering contract in support of the space transportation system. According to a placard in the collection, Hewett’s efforts guided Lt. Col. John H. Glenn into orbit aboard MA-6 on February 20, 1962 and Lt. Cdr. M. Scott Carpenter into orbit aboard MA-7 on May 24, 1962. According to a magazine (unidentified) excerpt, Hewett worked on Ascension Island during NASA testing. Less

The Lodwick Charles Hartley papers contain materials from Hartley's career as a professor in North Carolina State University's English Department. Materials include a number of Hartley's publications, including books, articles, poems, short stories, and book reviews, such as William Cowper: A List of Critical and Biographical Studies Published from 1895 to 1949 and the second printing of William Cowper: The Continuing Revaluation. The poetry partially consists of Correspondence by Sonnet: Quotations and Photograph, printed in Margaret Lowry Butler's Poems in Retrospect (1983). Also included is biographical information, including a booklet entitled Lodwick Hartley: A Profile of the Man; newsclippings about the English Department; and a 1967 speech Hartley delivered as part of the Adventures in Scholarship Library Lecture Series. The papers also contain materials from the 1962 court case Thomas v. State Board of Elections, during which Hartley testified as an expert on the English language. South Carolina native Lodwick Charles Hartley (1906 - 1979) received a B.A. from Furman University in 1927, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1928, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1937. He joined the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now North Carolina State University) faculty as an assistant professor in 1929. He became an associate professor in 1939, and head of the English Department in 1940. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1971. During his career, he focused on the authors William Cowper and Laurence Sterne. His books reflect this focus, with titles including William Cowper: The Continuing Revaluation (1960), and Laurence Sterne: A Biographical Essay (1968). He also authored numerous articles, book reviews, poems, and short stories. Less

The Louis Hall Swain papers consist of correspondence concerning Swain's opposition to the first draft of the title, chapter order, and adoption procedure of the Consolidated University of North Carolina's Faculty Manual. Also included is correspondence regarding a candidate for the dean of the School of General Studies, excerpts from the North Carolina General Statutes,School of General Studies' Objectives: A Tentative Statement, (1963 March 6), a list of Swain's advisees (1964 August 4), a list of students that went to Wake Forest University for medical school (1963 August 30), and notes regarding meetings in the School of General Studies. North Carolina State University Emeritus Professor Louis Hall Swain (1906 - 1985) taught in the speech division of the Department of English for 25 years. A Maryland native, Swain earned his bachelor's (1928) and master's (1932) degrees from Duke University. He taught at Furman University and Duke University prior to beginning as an assistant professor at N.C. State in 1946. He was president of the North Carolina Speech Association. He was also a member of the Southern Association of Teachers of Speech, the National Association of Teachers of Speech, and the American Association of University Professors. Less

The Louisburg Garden Club Records consists of scrapbooks, awards, records, and other materials relating to the Louisburg Garden Club in North Carolina from 1938 to 2008. The Louisburg Garden Club was founded on March 29, 1938, in the home of Mrs. E. S. Ford, Sr., in Louisburg, North Carolina, with 29 members present. The club was formed as a civic organization. In September 1939, it became affiliated with the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc. The motto of the club is "to beautify within and without." Less

The MacMillan and MacMillan Architectural Papers, 1919, 1950-2010, document the professional activities of Dan and Frank MacMillan and their architectural firm. The collection consists of architectural drawings with various iterations of designs, blueprints, construction documents, prospective elevations, technical drawings, and related materials. MacMillan and MacMillan’s projects include mostly private residences, with a small number of subdivision developments. Also included in the collection are drawings of landscape architecture projects by Richard C. Bell, done in collaboration with MacMillan and MacMillan projects. There is also a series of photographs from the period (1950-1952) in which the Dorton Arena was under construction; Dan MacMillan worked on the Dorton Arena as a project engineer for Muirhead Construction. Dan (1921- ) and Frank (d. 1991) MacMillan were born in Fayetteville, North Carolina and were principals in the MacMillan and MacMillan architectural firm. Dan MacMillan graduated from North Carolina State University in 1948 and worked for several years with the architect Jim Webb and then as a project engineer for Muirhead Construction on Raleigh’s Dorton Arena. In 1952 Dan MacMillan founded his firm, Dan MacMillan Architect and Associates in Fayetteville. After his brother, Frank, received his architecture license in the early 1950s Dan partnered with him and the firm was renamed MacMillan and MacMillan. Frank MacMillan died in 1991. The MacMillans had also partnered with other architects during their career, including Brian Shawcroft. Less