Barnhart, Genevieve, 1963-

Wright, Christina

McWhirter, Ann
McWhirter, Bill
Cullum, John

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2014-07-24

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Genevieve Barnhart was a 51-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in the UNC Charlotte Foundation Building in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born on Misawa Air Force Base in Japan in 1963. She was educated at UNC Charlotte and was employed as a senior educator with the Army Community Services (ACS) Family Advocacy Program (FAP) from 2009 to 2011 and as a clinician at Presbyterian Hospitality House from 2011 through the time of interview. Ann McWhirter was a 77-year-old woman at the time of interview. She was born in 1936 in Kane, Pennsylvania, and was educated at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Maryland College Park. She was employed as an art history teacher.

In this interview, Bonnie Cone's niece Ann McWhirter, her great-niece Genevieve Barnhart, and Ann's husband Bill McWhirter share their memories of Bonnie Cone. They describe her persuasiveness and enabling of others, her motivation and work ethic, her positivity, her vision for Charlotte College and UNC Charlotte, and her sense of fashion. They recall Bonnie's teaching years, her homes in Charlotte, her caring for her mother, and her involvement in Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte. They reflect on how she represented women, on her reaction to not being chosen as Chancellor of UNC Charlotte, and on her and her family's feelings about her being buried on campus. Ms. Barnhart recounts how she came to live with and help care for her Great-Aunt Bonnie and attend UNC Charlotte. Mrs. McWhirter recalls a cross-country road trip with Bonnie and explains how Bonnie was like a mother to her. Other topics include Bonnie Cone's education at Duke, her favorite sayings, what her opinion would be of football at UNC Charlotte, and her friendships with people such as Oliver and Marie Rowe, Woody Kennedy, J. Murrey Atkins, and Chancellors Dean Colvard, E. K. Fretwell, and James Woodward.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on a Marantz PDM 670 digital recorder.

Social workers
Teachers

Barnhart, Genevieve, 1963-
McWhirter, Ann
McWhirter, Bill
Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Rowe, Oliver Reagan, 1902-1988
Fretwell, E. K., 1923-2012

Charlotte College
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

World War, 1939-1945

Women college presidents
Education, Higher
Women in higher education
Public universities and colleges

North Carolina--Charlotte

Interviews
Oral histories

1910-2020

UNC Charlotte Oral History Interviews

Memories of Bonnie Cone

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Bonnie Cone Sawyer and Faye Reynolds oral history interview, 2013 December 5, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Bonnie Ethel Cone Papers, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/406)

UA-MC0109

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:2559