Career
Virginia Terrell Lathrop was born in 1900 near Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from the North Carolina College for Women, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1923. Following the completion of her education, she worked as a journalist for the Raleigh News and Observer, the Asheville Citizen, and the New York Post, as well as working in the London and Paris offices of the New York Herald Tribune.
Lathrop worked as the head of the Woman's College News Bureau from 1937 to 1941. She later served on the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, a role she held until her death. In 1952, she was appointed to the board's executive committee. In 1972, she served as a member of the initial Board of Governors which oversaw operation of all sixteen publics universities in North Carolina. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro awarded her the Alumni Service Award in 1965, and an honorary degree in 1966.
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