Lucy S. Herring Collection

Lucy S. Herring Collection M78.3.1
Portrait of Lucy S. Herring, Lucy S. Herring Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804
Title	Lucy S. Herring Collection
Creator	Lucy S. Herring
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/herring/default_herring.html
Subject Keyword	Herring, Lucy Saunders ; African American teachers ; Education Elementary ; Education Higher ; Women social reformers
Subject LCSH	Herring, Lucy Saunders African American women social reformers -- North Carolina -- Asheville African American women teachers -- North Carolina -- Asheville African Americans -- Education (Elementary) -- North Carolina -- Asheville African Americans -- Education (Higher) African American women college teachers -- North Carolina
Description	Personal correspondence, photographs and papers of educator Lucy S. Herring.
Publisher	D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor	Lucy S. Herring ; Southern Highlands Research Center
Date	2001-05-01, 2005-12-19
Type	Collection ; Text ; Image
Format	One document box
Source	M78.3.1
Language	English
Relation	Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 ; Lucy Herring Oral History (interview with Dr. Louis D. Silveri), Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Coverage	1909-1975 ; Asheville, NC
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor	Donor number 41
Acquisition	1978-02
Citation	Lucy S. Herring Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804.
Processed by	Special Collections staff, 1978 and 2001

BIOGRAPHY
For 52 years Lucy Herring dedicated her life to teaching. 35 of these years were spent in the Buncombe County and Asheville City Schools. She served as a teacher at Swannanoa, Hill Street, and Stephens Lee schools and as principal at Mountain Street, a school that was later named in her honor. She was founder and director of a summer reading clinic for teachers at NC College at Durham, NC and was Associate Professor, Director of Reading at Livingstone College in Salisbury, NC. She was a member of the Asheville Chapter of the American Association of University Women, Gamma Gamma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She served as an officer of the Retired Teachers Association, the Council on Aging, and the Asheville City and Buncombe County Human Relations council.
CHRONOLOGY
1916-1920 1920-1923 1923-1935 1935-1941 1941-1949 1949-1964 1964-1968 1945-1960 1945-1960 1962-1965		Teacher, Swannanoa School, Buncombe County, NC Teacher, Hill Street Elementary School, Asheville, NC Elementary supervisor, Harnett County Schools, NC Teacher, Stephens Lee High School, Asheville, NC Principal, Mountain Street School, Asheville, NC Elementary supervisor, Asheville, NC Elementary supervisor, Buncombe County, NC Director, reading center, Livingstone College, NC Reading consultant in NC, SC and TN Reading clinic for teachers, NC College, Durham, NC Reading workshops for teachers, Livingstone College
ITEM LIST
M78.3.1	1		Book on Normal Industrial School & Collegiate Institute, Clinton, N. C., 1909; Pamphlet, Third Annual Report of the Industrial Work in Colored Schools of Sampson County, 1910-1913 (2 items)
.	2		Correspondence concerning remedial reading with the North Carolina Board of Public Instruction, North Carolina College for Negroes, Board of Education of Harnett County, Johnson C. Smith University, and Temple University. (7 items, plus one photocopy)
.	3		Correspondence, including the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, various municipal and county school administrators, and university and college administrators (28 items, including one clipping and one handwritten note)
.	4		Miscellaneous correspondence concerning lectures at various educational institutions, 1951-53. (20 items)
.	5		Correspondence including the University of Chicago Campaign, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, and the education department at Duke University, 1954-57. (7 items)
.	6		Miscellaneous correspondence with various schools; Award of Merit from the University of Chicago Alumni Foundation. (5 items)
.	7		Correspondence including remedial reading, supervisory positions in North Carolina and Alabama, the Asheville Human Relations Council, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (13 items)
.	8		Correspondence including remedial reading instruction, naming of the Mountain Street School as the Lucy S. Herring Elementary School. (9 items)
.	9		Correspondence including remedial reading, the Asheville Human Relations Council, the Lucy S. Herring Elementary School, and the American Friends Service Committee (7 items)
.	10		Miscellaneous correspondence, including appointment to the staff of Livingstone College, a State of North Carolina "Total Development Award" from Governor Dan Moore, and a letter of resignation as supervisor from the Asheville and Buncombe County Schools (19 items)
.	11		Letters of thanks for lectures and services, Governor's Study Commission, Noyes Foundation. (10 items)
.	12		Administrative manual of Asheville-Buncombe County Community Relations Council. (1 item)
.	13		Pamphlet and letter concerning exhibit titled, "Black Highlanders"; a biographical sketch of Lucy S. Herring; a chronological record of educational experiences of Mrs. Herring; family history of Decatur Herring; and miscellaneous correspondence. (12 items)
.	14		Clippings 1953-1975 (15 items)
.	15		Family and school photographs; 6 prints, six 4x5 copy negatives (not the same as the prints) (12 items)
.	16		Annual: 1975 Flame of Hope (1 item)
	17		Certificate (1 item)

Lucy S. Herring Collection

Portrait of Lucy S. Herring, Lucy S. Herring Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804

Portrait of Lucy S. Herring, Lucy S. Herring Collection,
D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804