It was 1957 when Dr. Levern Hamlin Allen headed to what was then called Western Carolina College . Allen remembers the long drive to Cullowhee from her where she was living in Charlotte in those days. “Oh 1957 that was a long time ago. When I look at the pictures of how tiny I was,”says Allen. Allen needed just 9 credit hours to be certified as a special ed teacher in North Carolina since she got her teaching degree in Virginia. She went on to be a speech and language pathologist. She says many