Sandra Levine, life trustee, has spent decades making Queens ‘a jewel in Charlotte’s crown’


By Page Leggett


hen Sandra Levine took a class at Queens


University of Charlotte – then known as Queens College – she had no idea what the school would come to mean to her. Or what she would mean to it.


It was 1960, and Levine, at that time a student at the Woman's College in Greensboro, which today is University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a friend decided to take a class together over the summer. Tey enrolled in a sociology course, thinking it sounded interesting. Tey didn't know until the first day of class that their professor would be Wallace Kuralt, Sr., father of the legendary newsman, Charles Kuralt. Wallace was Mecklenburg County's welfare director from 1945 to 1972. "Queens has been on my radar since then," Levine said. "As a matter of fact, I often refer to Queens as a bright jewel in the Queen Charlotte crown." Levine and her husband, Leon, are a big


Photos by: Amy Hart


part of why that crown shines so brightly. Together, they have been among the City


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