Retired professor McPherson dies

Dolly McPherson

January 20, 2011
by Mark Anderson  |   media@wfu.edu  |   336.758.5237

Professor Emerita of English Dolly A. McPherson, the first African-American full-time female faculty member when she was hired in the 1970s, has died. She was 82.

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