Charles Duncan McIver

Charles Duncan McIver
Charles Duncan McIver

Jenkins pictured in The Carolinian 1902, UNCG yearbook
President of the The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Term 1891 – 1906
Successor Julius Foust
Born September 27, 1860(1860-09-27)
Moore County, North Carolina
Died September 17, 1906(1906-09-17) (aged 45)
between Raleigh & Greensboro

Charles Duncan McIver (September 27, 1860 – September 17, 1906) is known as the founder and first president of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

He was born 1860 in Moore County, North Carolina and graduated from UNC Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, in 1881. McIver became a teacher in Durham and Winston North Carolina until 1889 when he and Edwin A. Alderman were chosen by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to hold teacher institutes across the state.

As a crusader for women's education, he was chosen President of the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG), which opened in 1892. He married Lula V. Martin and they had four children. He died on September 17, 1906 of apoplexy on a train taking William Jennings Bryan from Raleigh to Greensboro.[1] He was buried in Greensboro.

UNCG's McIver Street, McIver Building (both the current such building, and a previous building which occupied the same site), and (indirectly)McIver Parking Deck are named after him, and a statue (dubbed "Charlie" by students) was erected in his honor and it was a tradition to paint messages and clothes on the beloved founder until the donation of "The Rawk" in 1973. A duplicate statue is on the grounds of the North Carolina state capitol in Raleigh. He is the only person honored on Capitol Square who was not a political or military leader.

Schools named in his honor include the Charles McIver School in Kannapolis (opened in 1908, no longer in use) and the Charles Duncan McIver Special Education Center in Guilford County,

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References

  1. ^ "Journal of education - American Institute of Instruction, Boston University. School of Education - Google Books". Books.google.ca. http://books.google.ca/books?ei=d5zATrjCKIXkiALSj9SoAw&ct=result&id=fhQVAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Charles+D+McIver%22+AND+%221906%22&q=%22Charles+D+McIver%22#search_anchor. Retrieved 2011-11-14. 



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