A 1947 Western Union Telegram reads:
OFFER YOU POSITION HERE DEAN OF THE NEWLY FORMED SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN. SALARY AT THE RATE OF $9000.00 PER YEAR EFFECTIVE UPON ARRIVAL FOR DUTY. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION WILL BE SENT IN LETTER NEXT THURSDAY..
Add this to a pile of student/teacher memories and you have a [loose] narrative of the first twenty-five years of the School of Design at North Carolina State University. The stories are great—the studios started out in sweltering post-WWII barracks on campus.
