Charles Duncan McIver
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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 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.
UNCG's McIver Street, McIver Building, and 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 Rock" in 1973.
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- Satterfield, Frances Gibson (1942). Charles Duncan McIver. Ruralist Press, Atlanta
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