The co-founder of the Robertson Scholars program that pays for selected students to take classes at UNC and Duke died June 8 in New York. Josephine Tucker “Josie” Robertson was 67. She and her husband, Julian Hart Robertson Jr. ’55, donated… read more
Career prospects looked pretty bleak for Dan Pollitt in 1957. He had landed a job teaching law at the University of Arkansas not two years earlier, then came the order that to continue on the payroll he would need to sign a disclaimer swearing he… read more
Several hundred people from across campus gathered just south of the Campus Y on Thursday afternoon to remember Eve Carson ’08, Carolina’s former student body president who was killed two years ago this week. The event marked the dedication… read more
A 23-year-old alumnus who was serving in Afghanistan died Aug. 18 from injuries suffered when his vehicle was destroyed by a roadside bomb. Army Pfc. Morris L. Walker ’08, an Army paratrooper, was one of two U.S. soldiers who died in the… read more
A young elementary school teacher, widowed in the 1940s and with a 2-year-old daughter, Mary Turner Lane could have stayed in New Bern and continued to teach. Instead, she chose to come to UNC, where she earned her master’s in education in 1953… read more
After he won the Nobel Prize in 1998, Robert F. Furchgott ’37 enjoyed the celebration, but he was itching to get back to the science. “Too many people calling in,” he described the situation to a reporter. “I haven’t had a chance to do anything… read more
David Stick ’41 loved the Outer Banks and spent most of his life writing about the area and working to preserve it. Stick, 89, died May 24 in Kill Devil Hills. As a child, he moved with his family from New Jersey to the Outer Banks. Immediately,… read more
Cmdr. Charles Keith Springle ’79 was a “kind and gentle person, just the kind of person you want in a social worker,” and he was well-prepared to assist soldiers who were mentally scarred by combat. That’s how former School of Social Work… read more
John Hope Franklin didn’t just endure or bristle at the acts of racism inflicted upon him. He used them to help teach America about the full history of its black citizens, from slavery through the civil rights era and beyond. As a result, in 1979,… read more
It’s rare for an academic to pioneer one field of study as well as chart and define its boundaries. Archie Green did that in three fields – traditional music, labor history and the culture and traditions of work, and public folklore. For five… read more