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The Greensboro City Council met on October 20, 2026, in the Katie Dorsett Council Chambers, with all council members present and Councilmembers Black and Allen participating remotely. The meeting opened with a closed session under North Carolina General Statute 143-318, then reconvened to adopt two honorary resolutions, approve routine consent items, conduct public hearings and votes on annexations, original zoning requests, and local historic landmark designations, and receive city manager updates. All formal votes in open session carried unanimously, 9-0.
I moved that the city council go into closed session as permitted by North Carolina General Statute 143-318. To discuss individual public officers or employees. Specifically regarding the evaluation of a city council employee. And as permitted by 143-318 eleven A4 to discuss matters relating to the location or expansion of industries or other businesses in the area served by the city. So here is second. Second by Mr. Marshall. All in favor, please say aye. Thank you. We will come back as quickly as possible. Welcome to Gate City Insider. I'm Rosemary Plyba, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University centennial homecoming celebration is coming soon, and we're diving into the history, the traditions, and the fun. James Stewart is University Archivist. Hello and welcome. First of all, you're an AT grad, correct? Class of 2008. 2008. Okay, so let's go back in history, way past 2008. How did home homecoming actually start a North Klan AT? Well, homecomings overall at colleges started between the 1890s and the early 1910s, but they didn't really start coming to HBCUs until 1924. We know that year that Morehouse and Howard had a homecoming, and we recently learned that Virginia State University had one. It's a bit of a mystery, but sometime between 1924 and 1926, the tradition began at AT. And we have a lot of theories. You were already starting to kind of build a reputation as a as a place to come for homecoming for sure. What were some of the early traditions in addition to music and football games? I mean, what were some of the other things that happened that maybe aren't happening anymore? We know that the earliest homecomings, there would be a luncheon with the president. We're assuming it was good food. Of course, you look at menus back then, it's different, like Mannaise was listed as a side for some reason. As some of these other not homecoming necessarily, but other college. Yeah, so boiled eggs, potato salad, who knows. Uh, but we know today that there is a Chancellor's Circle dinner. So we've seen a lot of these traditions disappear and merge into something newer. Uh one tradition that has disappeared is there used to be an agricultural fair at homecoming, and we know those go back to us around 1931 and sort of disappeared through the decades. And there was always a social. We're assuming dancing, music, maybe the students provided it, but there was always an opportunity to gather social and eat following the game. Yeah. So what made it grow to kind of to kind of what it has become today? I mean, was there like a an event or was it just kind of a slow people hearing about it starting to come back? I think part of it is that AT was able to secure venues that allowed more people to come. So in our earliest days, football games were played on a piece of land called Dudley Field, what the students now call Holland Bowl, which is in front of Williams Cafeteria, and we also played at a park near AT Cone Athletic Park. That's been gone for decades. That's kind of near where the cookout uh the intersection of Wendover and Summit is now. But in 1927, AT was able to get the homecoming game in the War Memorial Stadium. And we now know that that 1927 homecoming was the first time people of color were allowed to play in that venue. Wow. And that would be the home of Aggie football for the next 54 odd years, and now we own it interestingly, fittingly. Yeah. But that was a big deal. It was widely publicized that AT could now have a game in a venue that could see over 10,000 people.