early student group

Women and Coeducation

Women's progress from a marginal to a central role in campus life and the achievements of the university's first female students, faculty, and administrators.

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  1. Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908)
  2. Drawing of early female student from the Yackety Yack, 1907
  3. Mary MacRae (ca. 1873-1940) with the staff of The Tar Heel, 1898
  4. Sallie Walker Stockard (1869-1963)
  5. University Women's Club, 1907
  6. Cora Zeta Corpening, center, front row, 1916
  7. Barbara Bynum Henderson (1882-1955)
  8. Guion Griffis Johnson (1900-1989)
  9. Dean Susan Grey Akers (1899 -1984)
  10. Inez Koonce Stacy (1886-1961)
  11. Katherine Kennedy Carmichael (1912-1982)
  12. Shirley Carpenter, Miss Modern Venus, Sigma Chi Derby Day, 1956
  13. Coeds in dormitory, 1948
  14. The 1981 Women Soccer Team, National Champions
  15. Dean Elizabeth Kemble and School of Nursing faculty, 1950s
  16. Patricia Wallace
  17. Karen Stevenson
  18. Doris Betts (left) and Gillian Cell (right)
  19. Mary Turner Lane
  20. Mia Hamm (1972- ) played varsity soccer at Carolina from 1989 to 1993

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