Enola C. Mixon Collection

Details

Who's responsible?: Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: This collection has been digitized in its entirety.
Where can I find more information?: No finding aid available.
Topics: People
North Carolina
Subject headings: Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century
Contributing Institution: Gateway Community Collections, UNC Greensboro

Pages

: Achievement award program; Enola Mixon recieved the Dot Sharpe Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony held at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex on December 19, 2002. The complete program includes a list of participants in the cermony and background information about Mixon.

: Article about Enola C. Mixon; The Triad Edition of "Today's American Woman" (vol. 3) for 1997 includes a lengthly article, and photograph, about Enola Mixon.

: Certificate of special Congressional recognition; Enola Mixon received this certificate from local Congressman Mel Watt, upon her retirement as Greensboro's postmaster on July 10, 2004.

: City postmaster set for transfer; This article describes Enola Mixon's move from High Point to the postion of field director of the United States Postal Service in Northern Virginia.

: Class photograph; Enola Mixon is shown, second row far left, in this class photograph of the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

: End of an era: Postmaster retires after 38 years; Article from the Greensboro News and Record about Enola Mixon's retirement, after 38 years of employment with the United States Postat Service.

: Enola Mixon postal cover; This unique postal cover was created for Enola Mixon on her retirement on July 10, 2004 as Greensboro's postmaster.

: Final rites held for one of the oldest mothers; This lenghty article and obituary from The Future Ouitlook detail the life of Lethia "Granny" Morton (1836-1952), who lived in High Point at her death. She was 115 years old when she died. A tag at the bottom of the clipping incorrectly identifies it as being from a 1984 issue of the High Point Enterprise.

: Flier for Greensboro bicentennial; Flier for Torch Relay event on March 26, 2008. Enola Mixon served as Torch Bearer Number 256.

: Greensboro Four postal cover; This postal cover depicts and commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins of February, 1960. A period image of the "Greensboro Four" is accompanied by autographs of participants Franklin McClain and Joseph A. McNeil. Lynn Richmond Massenburg also signed the Cover for her father David Richmond, who died in 1990.

: Greensboro millennium postal cover; This postal cover commorates the birth of the new millennium on January 1, 2000. Signatures on the cover include Enola C. Mixon, Deborah Hooper, Benjamin Cone, Betty Cone, Ronnie C. Thornton, Claudette Burroughs-White, and Corene L. Blair

: Group photograph; Enola Mison is third from right in this group photograph. Betty Cone is on far right.

: Help stamp out hunger; This flyer was created to promote the National Association of Letter Carriers' Food Drive on Saturday, May 13, 2000.

: Hospice of Greensboro postal cover; Postal cover created for Hospice of Greensboro by Enola Mixon includes a piece of artwork by regional artist William Mangum, whose autograph appears on this cover.

: Invitation to "Heroes of 2001" stamp unveiling; This invitation announces the unveiling of the postal stamp honoring the firefighter heroes of the September 11, 2001, attack in New York City.

: Letter from Donald D. Smith; A letter of thanks for Enola Mixon's participation in a United States Postat Service workshop in Charlotte.

: Letter from Dudley High School; This letter, from J. A. McKee, director of athletics at Dudley High School in Greensboro, is written in appreciation of Enola Mixon's contributions as the chairperson of the athletic bus fund drive.

: Letter to Enola C. Mixon; Letter from C. Edmund Fairley and Rev. Dr.Carl L. Manuel Jr., of the Hayes-Taylor YMCA, congratulating Enola Mixon on her retirement as postmaster in Greensboro, and thanking her for her support ot the YMCA.

: Letter to Enola C. Mixon; Enola Mixon was presented with a service award by John E. Potter (then Postmaster General of the United States) on her retirement as Greensboro's postmaster.

: North Carolina State 2001 postmaster of the year; Article from "Tar Heel Postmaster" detailing Enola Mixon's selection for the North Carolina Postmaster award for 2001.

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