The photographs in the Alumni Association subgroup of the University Archives Photograph Collection document the organization's various activities and programs, including awards, scholarships, fundraising, alumni weekends, and homecoming. Homecoming photographs include tailgates, parades and floats, pep rallies, and homecoming queens and contestants. Photographs in this subgroup range in date from the 1930s to the late 1990s, the majority are from the 1950s through the 1970s and 1990s. The majority of photographs in the subgroup are in black-and-white.
The Alumni Association of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanics Arts (North Carolina State University) was organized in June 1895, two years after the graduation of the first class. The association has worked from those earliest days to anticipate and fulfill the needs of the university. In 1987, as the university celebrated its centennial anniversary, the Alumni Association sponsored construction of the Alumni Centennial Gateway on Western Boulevard. The Alumni Association hosts various events including Homecoming, Legacy Luncheons, and Class Reunions. The mission of the NC State Alumni Association is to engage alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to NC State.
The Alumni Association of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanics Arts (North Carolina State University) was organized in June 1895, two years after the graduation of the first class. The association has worked from those earliest days to anticipate and fulfill the needs of the university. In 1919, the Alumni Association launched plans to build a memorial to alumni who had died in World War I. The cornerstone for the Bell Tower was laid in 1921, but war and fund-raising lulls delayed its completion and dedication until 1949. Meanwhile, the association supported NC State in other ways. In the 1920s, it operated the first Student Cooperative Supply Store and promoted construction of the campus radio station, gymnasium and a library befitting “an institution of our proportions.” NC State Alumni News came out in the 1930s as the association expanded its alumni publication, created in 1917. In 1942, the association helped incorporate the NC State College Foundation, the first official organization for receiving and administering gifts and bequests. Its early activities included construction of Owen and Tucker dormitories to accommodate the GIs returning from World War II. In the 1960s, working through the association, alumni actively opposed proposals to change the name of the university to UNC-Raleigh.
In the 1970s, the association established the university’s first unrestricted merit scholarship program, the John T. Caldwell Merit Scholarship Program. In the 1980s and 1990s, the association expanded its services to reflect the land-grant mission of the university specifically with awards to faculty who have merited recognition for outstanding teaching, research and extension. In 1987, as the university celebrated its centennial anniversary, the Alumni Association sponsored construction of the Alumni Centennial Gateway on Western Boulevard. The gateway was officially dedicated in 1992 at Alumni Weekend. In September 2006, the Alumni Association moved into the Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center, built on the southern shore of Centennial Campus’s Lake Raleigh. The Park Alumni Center is the realization of a 20-year dream and a point of pride for generations of NC State alumni and friends as return they to campus to celebrate happy occasions. It’s a $25 million, 60,000-square-foot home for alumni, built by alumni. The Alumni Association also hosts various events including Homecoming, Legacy Luncheons, and Class Reunions. The mission of the NC State Alumni Association is to engage alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to NC State.
The photographs in the Alumni Association subgroup of the University Archives Photograph Collection document the organization's various activities and programs, including awards, scholarships, fundraising, alumni weekends, and homecoming. Homecoming photographs include tailgates, parades and floats, pep rallies, and homecoming queens and contestants. Photographs in this subgroup range in date from the 1930s to the late 1990s, the majority are from the 1950s through the 1970s and 1990s. The majority of photographs in the subgroup are in black-and-white.
The collection is arranged into the following series: General, Negatives, Proofs, Administration and staff, Groups and clubs, Homecomeing weekend, Fundraising, Events, Alumni Weekend, and Programs and services. The arrangement of series is based on a preexisting numerical classification system. The gaps in series numbers do not reflect missing items. Not all collections contain images for which there is a series name.
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[Identification of item], University Archives Photograph Collection, Alumni Association Photographs, UA 023.003, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Transferred from North Carolina State University Alumni Association.
Processed by Aaron Cusick, 2008 December
Encoded by Aaron Cusick, 2008 December
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[Identification of item], University Archives Photograph Collection, Alumni Association Photographs, UA 023.003, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.