Woodland Elroy Hall '1941 - First graduate of the new Graduate College, professor.
Margaret Tynes '1941 - international opera singer., Miss A&T 1939-40
Burleigh C. Webb '1942 - Dean of Agriculture at A&T, Webb Hall on A&T Campus.
Angeline (Tynes) Roberts '1945 - opera singer, performer, sister of Margaret Tynes '1939.
Dr. Lawrence Zollicoffer '1947 - physician, civil rights activists, founded Garywn Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Youngest enrolled undergraduate student at A&T.
Dr. Arthur P. Bell '1948 - agriculturalist, professor, Dean of Agriculture at A&T.
Randolph Blackwell '1949 - civil rights activist.
Marvin B. Graeber '1949 - Director of Buildings and Grounds at A&T, A&T Sports Hall of Fame inducted in 1982
"ROTC on Parade" from A&T Register, March 1943.
North Carolina A&T State University is an 1890 Second Morrill Land-Grant Act public university located in Greensboro, North Carolina.
NAME CHANGES TO REMEMBER:
1915 - 1957 - Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina
PRESIDENT:
Dr. F. D. Bluford (1925 - 1955)
1941
Woodland Elroy Hall was the first graduate to receive the Master of Science degree.
1940
A&T conferred its first bachelors degree in instrumental music.
1942
Senior Army R.O.T.C. Program was begun.
1943
Barbara Canada becomes first female elected Student Council (Student Government Association) president.
1945
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt toured the campus with A&T President F. D. Bluford in March.
1946
The A&T Foundation was established on March 4th by the Board of Trustees.
A&T acquired the 96-acre land tract known as North Campus.