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The George Herman Wise papers contain correspondence and paperwork regarding Wise's 1966 - 1967 request for a leave of absence for professional growth. Also included is a 1975 letter from Wise to Iowa State University President Emeritus Dr. J. H. Hilton requesting information on the William Neal Reynolds Professorship at North Carolina State University. Before moving to Iowa, Hilton was the dean of the School of Agriculture at N.C. State. There is also a folder documenting the disappearance and reappearance of Dr. Wise's Rolleiflex camera. George Herman Wise (1908 - 2009) was William Neal Reynolds Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at North Carolina State University. Wise received his bachelor's degree from Clemson College in 1930. He then received a master's degree (1932) and Ph.D. (1936) from the University of Minnesota. He began his career at N.C. State in 1948 as a professor of animal industry and the head of the animal nutrition section. Wise received the American Feed Manufacturers Award in 1948 and the Borden Award in 1949. He belonged to several professional organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Animal Production, and the American Dairy Science Association, and Sigma Xi. Less

George Heyward Floopy Dunlap (1902-1969) became Director of the Placement Bureau and Student Activities in the School of Textiles at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) in 1947, successfully increasing enrollment and improving teacher-student relations before his retirement in 1965. George H. Dunlap's papers, dated 1942-1966 and undated, contain clippings, articles, and photographs pertaining mostly to his tenure as Professor at the School of Textiles at North Carolina State College for twenty-two years. Less

The George Mandikos Papers, 1945-1965, contain professional literature, technical reprints, product information, handwritten notes, correspondence, and other materials related to Mandikos's work in the field of textile chemistry and color. George Mandikos served as technical director and later president of the American Assocation of Textile Chemists and Colorists, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He was also an active member of the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Testing and Materials, and other organizations. Less

This collection contains the sword, scabbard, and sheath of George Maslin Davis. These items date from circa 1900, and they were part of his cadet uniform. He used them during military exercises at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. George Maslin Davis (1880-1921) was a student at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (which later became North Carolina State University), beginning in 1897 or 1898. He studied mechanical engineering, and he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1901. He later became a mechanical engineer in Roanoke, Virginia. Less

The George Matsumoto Papers includes blueprints, specifications, sketches, correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, photographs, contracts, financial statements, and other related architectural records that document the extensive commercial and residential work of George Matsumoto and Associates. The bulk of the collection is composed of architectural records, such as drawings and sketches, that signify Matsumoto's architectural influences and his approach to project development over time. Included are materials that cover the various types of projects he took on, such as residential, collegiate, commercial, and community centers. The architectural records cover a wide expanse of projects primarily in North Carolina and California, with others in Virginia, Missouri, New York, Florida, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Illinois. The architectural records, publications, honors and awards, and architectural model contained in the collection portray Matsumoto's career as an architect, businessman, and leader of modernist architecture in the 20th century. The materials range from 1930 to 2009, with the bulk from 1940 to 1979. A project index to the collection is available online. George Matsumoto (1922-2016) was a Japanese American architect and educator who is most known for his award-winning, modernist designs. In 1948, Matsumoto became a faculty member at the School (later College) of Design of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). During his tenure at the School of Design, Matsumoto won more than thirty awards for his residential work, and his achievements in design were widely published. In 1961, George Matsumoto went on to join the faculty at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, and opened his own firm. He stopped teaching in 1967 but continued his architecture work until 1991. In contrast to his residential work, Matsumoto's post-teaching work is mostly comprised of community centers and collegiate designs. Less

The George Smart Papers, 1959-2004, document the professional activities of George McCollum Smart and his architectural firm. The collection is arranged into five series: drawings, project files, professional papers, electronic files, and photographic materials. Drawings include blueprints, sketches, and working drawings, representing a variety of projects undertaken by Smart and his firm. Project files contain correspondence, financial records, contracts and agreements, building and land surveys, design narratives and specifications, material samples, and notes relating to Smart’s design, construction, and renovation projects. Professional papers primarily include reference material relating to the design of educational and church facilities, construction materials, standards, and codes. Photographic materials include prints, negatives, and slides depicting the design, construction, and completion of various projects, including several churches and schools. George McCollum Smart (1931-2003) was an architect based in Raleigh, North Carolina from the early 1960s to 2002. Smart was born in South Carolina and attended high school in Virginia. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Randolph-Macon College in 1952 and a Bachelor of Architecture from North Carolina State College in 1959. Smart received his certification to practice architecture from the North Carolina Board of Architecture in 1961. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects. Prior to opening his own architectural firm, Smart was employed by Holloway and Reeves, Haskins and Rice, and Walter Burgess. From approximately 1964 on Smart presided over his own firm and had a series of partners including Charles Woodall, Max Isley, Troy Herring, and Mete Gurel. Smart designed and renovated many buildings including churches, schools, and post offices, primarily in North Carolina. His firm was also active in the areas of asbestos removal and fireproofing of public buildings. Smart retired from practice in 2002 and died in 2003. Less

This collection contains large-format photocopies of architectural drawings of the S. P. Alexander residence in Forest Hills, a residential district in Durham, North Carolina; and architectural blueprints of a residence in Hope Valley, a suburb of Durham, North Carolina. George Watts Carr, Sr. (1893-1975) was a Durham, N.C., architect. After heading the Durham office of architects Northup and O'Brien from 1926 to 1927, he had his own practice in the same city. He was primarily responsible for projects that his firm produced in the Durham area, especially in the Forest Hills neighborhood. Carr received honor awards from the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, for which he served as vice president 1936-1937. Less

The Gerald Katzin Notebooks collection, circa 1960-1974, contains Gerald Katzin's class notebooks for physics and mathematics classes. These notebooks include homework and notes on such topics as electromagnetism, kinetic theory, and boundary values. Some have NC State's seal and printed text on the cover indicating they were purchased from the university's student supply store. The collection also includes a compass used for drawing circles and arcs. Gerald "Jerry" Katzin was born on August 2, 1932 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Nathan and Bertha Kolodny Katzin. He was a physics student at NC State University during the 1950s and early 1960s. After he earned his Ph.D. in Physics at NC State, he became a professor at State and taught physics until he retired. His most significant research included work on curvature collineations. Katzin died on December 14, 2020 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Less

The Gerald Orlando Theodore Erdahl Papers document Erdahl's military career, his work as a cartoonist, and his tenure as the Director of the North Carolina State College Student Union. It also contains materials relating to Erdahl's professional and civic involvement and leadership, as well as his personal and family life. Gerald Orland Theodore Erdahl (1916-1961) was graduate of the University of Wisconsin, 1940. Erdahl served as Director of the North Carolina State College Student Union, 1949-1961. He was President of the National Association of College Unions from 1960 to 1961, a published cartoonist, and founder of the "Friends of the College" concert series at NC State. Less

A thank-you letter, 1963; a Christmas card with a long note, 1970; and a letter, 1971, from Gertrude Cox to Julie McVay. The Christmas card included a report on Cox's activities from December 1969 to November 1970, including trips to Egypt, Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland, and across the United States. It also expressed her appreciation for N.C. State University's celebration of Gertrude Cox Day and the dedication of Cox Hall, which was named for her. The card was written on the eve of Cox's departure for Bangkok, where she planned to stay for six months. The letter, 3 February 1971, was written from Bangkok and reported on Cox's three months of giving seminars for Animal Science staff, consulting with Rice Institute staff, and working with the medical school at Mahidol University. It ended with a personal note expressing concern for a mutual friend. Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978) served as head of the Statistics Department at North Carolina State College from 1940 to 1949. She played an important role in founding the Research Triangle Institute in 1959 and held the position of Director, Statistics Research Division, at the Institute from 1959 until 1964. In 1949 Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute. In 1956 she was elected President of the American Statistical Association and in 1975 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Julie McVay was a mathematics instructor and then faculty member in counseling education at North Carolina State University. McVay's husband Francis E. McVay taught statistics at NC State and was a protégé of Gertrude Cox. Less

The Gertrude Mary Cox Papers consists of correspondence, diaries, photographs, speeches, articles, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to her career in statistics, her consulting work, travel, honors received, and the Cox Fellowship which was created in her honor at North Carolina State University. Her writings relate statistics to various subjects, including education, agriculture, nutrition, experimental design, biometrics, horticulture, home economics, and international research. Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978) served as head of the Statistics Department at North Carolina State College from 1940 to 1949. She played an important role in founding the Research Triangle Institute in 1959 and held the position of Director, Statistics Research Division at the Institute from 1959 until 1964. In 1949 Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute. In 1956 she was elected President of the American Statistical Association while in 1975 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Less

This collections contains 50 digital photographs of the Water Garden. The images are color and were taken in December 2007. The award-winning Water Garden Office Park was designed by landscape architect Richard "Dick" Bell, who operated his business at the site from 1955 until his retirement in 2007. Gil Stose specializes in photography for architects, developers, magazines, advertisers, and corporations. He was contracted by the NC State University Libraries in 2007 to photographically document the Water Garden before the property was redeveloped. Less

The Gil Wheless Papers, 1960-2016, document the professional activities of Gilbert B. Wheless and the landscape architectural firm Environmental Design Associates PC (EDA). The collection is arranged into four series: drawings, photographic materials, project files, and electronic materials. Drawings include blueprints, sketches, and working drawings, mainly representing a variety of projects undertaken by Wheless and EDA, as well as architectural and engineering firms with which they worked. Photographic materials include prints, negatives, and slides depicting the design, construction, and completion of various projects, including residences and residential pools. Project files include EDA promotional materials, reference files, correspondence, sketches and project lists. Electronic files are primarily CDs containing photographs and documents relating to projects. This collection does not document the full extent of projects designed by EDA; it primarily represents just those projects on which Wheless worked. Gilbert B. Wheless, Jr. is a landscape architect who grew up in Durham, North Carolina. He graduated from Durham High School in 1960 and entered the School of Design (now College of Design) at North Carolina State University in 1961. In 1962, he began to focus on landscape architecture and studied under Lewis Clarke and Richard Moore. In 1970 Wheless, Donald Ferlow, and John Soluri became founding principals of Environmental Design Associates, PC. In the 2009, Wheless retired from the firm and returned to Durham. Less

The Gordon H. Schenck, Jr. Photographs, circa 1960 - circa 2000, document the career of Gordon Schenck, a professional architectural photographer. This collection is arranged in four series: Negatives and transparencies, Prints, Slides, and Publications and Client Information. The collection consists primarily of Schenck’s photographs, including negatives and prints of various sizes, slides, and transparencies. Also included in the collection are magazines, catalogs, and clippings containing examples of Schenck’s work and his client file notes. Schenck’s subjects include residences, schools, malls, banks, historic structures, university campuses, churches, business campuses, and civic centers. Geographically, the photographs were taken across the Southern United States, with a particular focus on North and South Carolina, specifically the Charlotte-metro area. Gordon H. Schenck, Jr. (1927-2009) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He earned a degree in engineering from North Carolina State University. After college, he worked as a Southern Railway engineer for thirteen years. In 1963, Schenck began his eponymous photography company. He worked for many mid-century architects in North Carolina, photographing both model projects and completed structures. Schenck also worked for companies, including Belk and Southern Bell, and did some commercial work, photographing both models and posed products. Schenck’s work appeared in magazines such as Progressive Architecture, Better Homes and Gardens, and Southern Living. His photographs of historic buildings are also included in the Historic American Building Survey. In 1984, Schenck earned a degree in Photographic Craftsmanship from the Professional Photographers of America. He was a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the American Photographic Artists. His work was the subject of a traveling retrospective exhibit, “By Assignment and By the Way: Gordon Schenck Photographs Architecture, 1963-2008.” Schenck died in January 2009. Less

This collection contains reports, a cd, a photo of Gordon K. Middleton, Sr., and photographic slides from his agronomy research trip to Thailand. Dr. Gordon Kennedy Middleton, Sr., was born on October 28, 1895 and died in January 1986. He received his B.S. in agriculture from NC State College (now NC State University) in 1917; his M.S. in 1920 and his Ph.D. in 1930, both from Cornell University. Dr. Middleton served as an agronomist at NC State University from 1928 to 1966. Less

The Graduate Student Oral Histories on North Carolina Hog Farming include audio files of interviews with farmers, neighbors nearby the farms, and environmentalists about hog farming in Eastern North Carolina. These oral histories were produced for HI 533 Theory and Practice of Oral History, taught by Dr. Gwynn Thayer. The class was held in spring of 2023 and the interviews date to April and May 2023. The purpose of the Graduate Student Oral Histories on North Carolina Hog Farming was to analyze and consider different perspectives regarding hog farming in Eastern North Carolina. These oral histories capture the debate over whether different techniques for treating hog waste are acceptable to the environment and to public health. Farmers of hog farms, neighbors of these farms, and members of the Waterkeeper Alliance were interviewed. Less

The Greaves-Walker Ceramic Engineering Papers, 1925-1952, contains correspondence, financial records, reports, notes, calculation sheets, drawings, and other papers documenting A. F. Greaves-Walker's consulting work with industrial businesses, mostly in the United States but some in Canada. Topics include clay and mineral analyses, brick production, and design of facilities and equipment (including kilns). Some files were originally in the North Carolina State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering Records (UA 105.014) and were transferred to this collection. Greaves-Walker Engineers was the consulting firm of A. F. (Arthur Frederick) Greaves-Walker (1881-1954), who in 1924 founded the ceramic engineering program at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University). For a time in the 1920s, the firm was known as Greaves-Walker and Shands, when it offered mechanical engineering as well as ceramic engineering design services. It had become Greaves-Walker Engineers by the late 1930s. Less

The Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers document the activities of this landscape design firm. The collection is divided into four series. Drawings contain site plans, planting plans, construction details, maps, and other plans for a variety of the firm’s projects. Project Files contain contracts, financial accounts, reports, and research files relating to Greenways Incorporated or Flink and Associates project. The Professional Papers and Publications series include newspaper clippings, documents pertaining to greenway publications, and photographs. Web content includes archived web content related to Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers. Greenways Incorporated is a North Carolina based landscape architectural firm that provides specialized planning and design services to clients in the public and private sector. Greenways Incorporated was established in August 1986, by founder and president Charles A. Flink. The firm has designed greenways, open spaces, and pedestrian trails. Projects from this firm have been implemented in more than 135 communities, in 35 states, and internationally in Argentina, Canada, Japan, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The company has received an American Society of Landscape Architecture Chapter Award for Excellence for five separate projects in five different states. Less