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Today in NC State History: Yow captures 500th victory
Nothing special really jumps out at first glance looking back at the 1995-96 season for NC State’s women’s basketball team. The Wolfpack went 20-10, lost to Alabama in the second round of the NCAA...
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North Carolina machine shop has origins in A&M’s first class
Bill Lytch ’62 remembers very little of his grandfather, William McNeill Lytch. He remembers a dusting of white hair accompanying the bald head of the man known in the family as “Pop.” But most of...
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A matter of trust for Bailey Finley Willamson in the 1950s
Bailey Finley Williamson Bailey Finley Williamson grew up in Raleigh on his family’s farm in the 1870s and ’80s, driving Morgan horses for his father. The farm was dedicated to fruit crops, and it...
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Today in NC State History: Katharine Stinson is historical hire
Katharine Stinson was a teenager in 1932, a young woman with dreams of flying airplanes. She was working at the Raleigh airport when she got to meet her idol, Amelia Earhart, who was flying through the...
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Two alumni have taken ACC rivalries to children’s stories
Bryan Jones (left) and Hootie Bowman (right) Bryan Jones never thought he would be a writer. “I can’t even spell,” Jones says. “I’m atrocious at grammar.” But 14 years after graduating NC State with a...
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NC State dedicates James B. Hunt Jr. Library
It’s been open for three months. But today, the James B. Hunt Jr. Library was formally dedicated. Keynote speaker Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, called the library...
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Shawn Rychcik wants Wolfpack softball to go beyond good
Shawn Rychcik grew up wanting to play for the New York Yankees. But that didn’t happen because he traded in baseball for fastpitch softball, a sport in which Rychcik (pronounced “RI-check”) had a...
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Student Leaders: Sterling recalls hostility during changing times
For a leader who was NC State’s first female student body president, it’s a bit odd to hear Cathy Sterling say she can’t exactly remember why she got involved in student government. She said in an...
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Curtis Dail embraced NC State’s Wolfpack as his team
Curtis Dail, a long and devoted supporter of NC State University who made significant contributions to Wolfpack athletics, has died. Dail, who was 85, and his wife of more than 50 years, Jackie, were...
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Student Leaders: Talley’s arrival enriched student activities
Banks Talley was never a student at NC State, but there are few as influential in the development of student programs at the university than the former vice chancellor of student affairs. A holder of...
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Student Leaders: Tolson came to campus prepared to lead
Former Student Body President Norris Tolson likes to kid fellow Wolfpacker Jim Hunt about the former governor’s knack for politics even before he ran for state office. “He had a machine long before he...
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Rodon spends summer donning the red, white and blue
Photo by Kevin Jones, USA Baseball. NC State baseball pitching phenom Carlos Rodon spent his summer doing what comes naturally — playing baseball. But he, along with teammate Trea Turner, traded in his...
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Today in NC State History: Bostian becomes chancellor
NC State has had 14 chancellors lead the university throughout it’s history, but none resisted the job more than Carey Bostian, who served as chancellor from 1953-59. In the summer of 1953, he was...
View ArticleWeedon leaves behind a 50-year legacy in NC State athletics
The Wolfpack has lost a dear friend and one of its most ardent supporters, as Frank Weedon, a former NC State senior associate director of athletics, has died. Weedon, a native of Washington, D.C.,...
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NC State loses longtime promoter of the university’s success
Rudolph “Rudy” Pate grew up on a tobacco farm in Robeson County, where he learned about the plowing, curing and harvesting of tobacco. He was active in the 4-H, serving as president of the Robeson...
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Seagondollar saw first atomic blast as part of Manhattan Project
Lewis Worth Seagondollar, who witnessed the testing of the first atomic bomb as a scientist on the Manhattan Project before becoming head of the physics department at NC State, died in Raleigh on...
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Riddick’s legacy will always be alive on NC State’s campus
The last remnants of Riddick Stadium, as noted in the winter issue of NC State magazine, came down last April when the stadium’s field house was demolished to improve pedestrian access and safety near...
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Liles brothers get as close to the action as any Wolfpack fan can
Daryl Liles and his brother, Derek, have always done everything together. They were born together, as twins, so that’s only natural. Derek Liles paints one end zone of Carter-Finley Stadium. Photo by...
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NC State researchers look to cross the goal line with technology
Too often, talk around the water cooler on Mondays involves this wronged football fan griping about that blown call by the refs. (Luckily, that’s not the case for NC State fans today, as the Wolfpack...
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Today in NC State History: A training ground for college leaders
It is widely known that NC State students often go on to become great engineers, entrepreneurs, teachers, scientists and military leaders. What may not be as widely known is the university’s track...
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