Dr. Nancy White.
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Posted 6-8-07
Dr. Nancy White, a longtime faculty member, a faithful friend to the university and the only recipient of a doctorate from Woman’s College, died June 4. She was 81.
As an article in The News & Record noted, she was “a WC woman through and through.” She earned her bachelor’s degree in education from WC in 1946 and became a teacher, following in the footsteps of her mother and seven aunts.
After teaching in Salisbury for five years, she returned to WC to teach at Curry, the school operated by the college with grades 1-12. She earned her doctorate, the only one awarded by WC, in childhood development in 1963. (Later that year, WC became UNCG.)
She taught and mentored thousands of students in the schools of Education and Human Environmental Sciences during almost four decades as a faculty member. “She never missed a university reunion,” said Mary Martin, one of her former students. “She was the most sought-after faculty member there.”
She received the university's Alumni Teaching Excellence Award in 1970 and the Gladys Strawn Bullard Award for outstanding university service in 1986. In 1993, five years after her retirement, she received an Outstanding Alumni Award. Two scholarships are awarded in her honor.
