Former Baldwin School and current UNCG students
gather at the exhibit opening night, May 3 2007.
The Baldwin Chapel School class of 1963
Row 1: Kim Adkins and Ashley Black
Row 2: Jeremiah DeGennaro, Amanda Hughes,
and Hayley Chambers
Row 3: Jessica Armstrong, Laura Lawfer,
The Baldwin School: Yesterday and Today
About the project
In January 2007, nine graduate students in
the public history program at the University of
North Carolina Greensboro faced a photograph
and a mission. Benjamin Filene, professor of our
seminar on Public History Interpretation, handed
us a photograph, borrowed from the Rosetta C.
Baldwin Museum, and challenged us to bring it life
by the end of the semester. Our task was
to identify, locate, and interview the people in the
photograph. Beginning with a handful of names,
we pored through public records and reached out
to the community to learn about the lives and
times of the students of the Baldwin Chapel
School, class of 1963.
Click here to hear reactions from former Baldwin students to their class photo.
The product of this research was an exhibit displayed
during the summer 2007 at the High Point Museum.
Click here to listen to The State of Things radio
program about the project.
This exhibit began with a single photograph—of the
Baldwin Chapel School’s class of 1963. We, students
ourselves, hoped the picture would speak louder than
words. We wanted to learn about the students in this
picture: their lives, their dreams, their hopes, and their
fears. Forty years later, these students have taught us
even more.
The creators of the project would like to thank the following friends and
helpers for making possible the sharing of these stories:
Louise Anderson, Elder Greg Baity, Baldwin’s Chapel Seventhday
Adventist
Church (High Point), Beatrice Banks, Elder Donald Belton, Linda Boyd, Edith
Brady, Jennifer Burns, David and Bertha Butler, Lonnie and Lisa Butler, Ray
Butler, Alsean Cato, Glenn Chavis, Bobby Clark, Julius Clark, Lester Clark,
Barbara Collier, Kristen Conn, Wyndell Earles, East Market Street Seventhday
Adventist Church (Greensboro), Jani Ervin, Frances Faust, Jeffrey Faust,
Phyllis Gaddy, Elder Nathaniel Good, Martha Grier, Kathy Hardin, Frank
Harrell, Jackie Hedstrom, High Point Visitors & Convention Bureau, Pauline
Outlaw, Janice Payton, Pam Anderson Pegues, Stephan Rantz, DeCarlos
and Marquita Rogers, Arnessa Smith, David Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Barbara
Taylor, Deetra Thompson, Adrian Whicker, Sylvia Jackson Wilson, Eleanor
Brittany Lewis, and Wonce, Terry Woolcombe, Wes Zimmer Stephanie Miller
We also thank the Rosetta C. Baldwin Museum and the High Point
Museum for their generous support and cooperation.
Funding for this project was provided by the Office of Leadership and ServiceLearning,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the History
Department of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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