5.19.23 | Around Town, Carolina Alumni Review
After three years of uncertainty, chef Garret Fleming and his sister Eleanor Lacy, a dessert baker extraordinaire, have finally found a permanent home. Fleming and Lacy had barely installed the pig smoker at their first Chapel Hill restaurant, Big…
Susan King, former dean of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, discussed loyalty, courage and leadership in her Last Lecture to about 150 seniors outside the Morehead Planetarium in April. “I’ve always felt that the students at… read more
Derb Carter ’75, a behind-the-scenes hero of the environmental movement, has spent decades fighting to protect the natural world. by Melba Newsome Kemp Burdette is one of North Carolina’s best-known naturalists and environmentalists. He also… read more
A writer who honed his craft while running the cash register at a Franklin-Street fixture looks back as it celebrates its centennial. by T. Edward Nickens ’83 I wish I could remember her full name. read more
In 1972, while browsing in a small antique shop in Hillsborough, John Short ’71 happened upon a bronze mask of Abraham Lincoln. It was made from a plaster mold created a few months before the 16th president’s assassination. Still, it’s… read more
William Hubbard ’70 brought the political savvy. Jerry Mande ’83 (MPH) the design expertise. Together they created the iconic nutritional food label shoppers have come to count on. by George Spencer Andy Warhol never met William… read more
Al Leaves, Burger Stays Carolina graduates Charlie Farris ’04 and Jason Kesler ’04 helped out alumni Al Bowers ’88 and his wife, Melody Adams Bowers ’85, by purchasing Al’s Burger Shack after the Bowerses filed for bankruptcy for the… read more
The Review asked GAA president Doug Dibbert ’70, who is retiring, to choose one “Yours at Carolina” column from his 40-year tenure to reprint in this issue. He chose this one, which originally ran in the November/December 2018… read more
After more than 40 years of guiding Carolina’s 180-year-old General Alumni Association, Doug Dibbert ’70 announced last year he would be stepping down as president and would serve until a successor is named. Dibbert has overseen the growth… read more
Lewis Black ’70 thought writing plays was his future, until he realized it wasn’t. by Claire Cusick ’21 (MA) On a Friday evening in November, Lewis Black ’70 sat inside his tour bus parked on South Mangum Street next to the Durham… read more