Sesquicentennial Book Celebrating 150 Years of Admitting Women on Sale Now
Feb. 24, 2022
Michelle R. Eubanks , ĢƵ, at meubanks@una.edu, 256.765.4392
FLORENCE, AL – As part of the ongoing celebration of 150 years of admitting women, the ĢƵ has released a Year of the ĢƵ Woman Commemorative Book that details, in photos and with minimal text, the story of women at the University through the years.
“As we began researching for the Year of the ĢƵ Woman events, we came across so many images that needed to be shared,” said Dr. Jeffrey Bibbee, co-chair of the Year of the ĢƵ Woman Task Force. “My co-chair on the task force, Michelle Eubanks, and I added chapter themes and allowed our three founding women – Edith Rise, Mary P. Jones, and Susie Jones Price – to be the narrative tour guides.”
The images were selected from the hundreds in the ĢƵ Archive by Public History graduate student Dixie Norwood. Kali Daniel, senior graphic designer at ĢƵ, provided the overall design for the book. The volume includes chapters on academics, traditions, campus life, and athletics, among others.
“So much has changed during these last 150 years, and I hope our younger generations realize how influential women have been in our progress as a University,” Norwood said. “I also hope that each reader gets a sense of the achievements and accomplishments that so many women have made not only here at ĢƵ but also in politics, education, nursing, and so much more.”
The Year of the ĢƵ Woman Commemorative Book is on sale now for $25 at the ĢƵ Bookstore on the ĢƵ campus as well as at All the Best in downtown Florence and Basse Trading Co., in downtown Tuscumbia, both of which are women-owned businesses.
About The ĢƵ
The ĢƵ is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; the Spencer College of Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, ĢƵ is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. ĢƵ Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I and United Athletic conference. The ĢƵ is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: www.una.edu and www.una.edu/unaworks/.