Title	Oral history interview with Jim Swiggett and Tom Martin, 2018
Date	2018-06-28
Creator	Swiggett, Jim:Martin, Tom Turner, Ann
Contributors	Hedrick, Brittany Hinshaw, Scott
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	James R. Swiggett was born in Trinity, NC in 1930. He attended High Point College from 1948-1952, where he received his Bachelor's degree. He taught physical education at Seagrove High School for 3 years and Allen Jay High School for 11 years, before attending UNCG for his Master's Degree, which he received in 1967. During that time, Mr. Swiggett was assigned the task of starting the Men's Basketball program at UNCG. Mr. Swiggett remained at UNCG as a coach, professor, and academic advisor until his retirement in 1989. Mr. Swiggett primarily coached Men's Basketball and Golf during his time at UNCG. C. Thomas Martin was born in Burlington, NC in 1946. His family soon moved to Greensboro, close to the campus of UNCG, where Mr. Martin attended Curry School from grades 4-12. Martin attended junior college at Gardner-Webb before enrolling at UNCG where he was a star on the first men's basketball team. Martin was one of the team's tri-captains, averaged 15 points per game, and still holds the record for rebounds in a single game. Martin graduated from UNCG in 1970 with a degree in Political Science. After UNCG, Martin worked for 33 years in the Planning Department of the City of Greensboro, rising through the ranks to become Director of Planning. He retired in 2003. Martin has remained busy serving at UNCG. He has volunteered and served in many capacities for UNCG including, but not limited to: Chairman of the Spartan Club (1992-1996), Tournament Director of 1997 and 1998 NCAA's Women's Soccer Championships (held at UNCG), Excellence Foundation member, UNCG Hall of Fame Committee Chairman, and University Planning Council member. In 2002, Martin made history again when he was elected president of the UNCG Alumni Association, the first male to hold that post. That same year, Martin was inducted into the UNCG Athletics Hall of Fame. Martin and his wife, Mary(Class of 1971), continued to show support for current UNCG athletes by establishing the C. Thomas Martin Athletic Scholarship, an endowment fund that is awarded to women in the basketball program who have demonstrated a high level of competition and academic performance. Martin has also been recognized as one of UNCG Athletic's biggest fans with the Super Spartan Award and more recently, was a recipient of the Alumni Association's UNCG/WC Legacy Award (2014) for alumni who have made significant contributions that exemplify value, character, and high integrity. In this interview, Mr. Swiggett and Mr. Martin discuss the Men's Basketball team at UNCG, and Mr. Swiggett's duties, responsibilities, and remembrances of his career as coach, teacher, and academic advisor.
Type	MovingImage
Original format	Interviews
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	UNCG Institutional Memory Collection
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Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	OH002.171
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
External site	https://youtu.be/DbXqK9XHaNM

Oral history interview with Jim Swiggett and Tom Martin, 2018

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