National Public Radio newscaster and radio personality Carl Kasell will be part of a free public program on April 16.

“An Evening with Carl Kasell” will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Genome Sciences Building, Room GS 200. Joining Kasell in conversation will be WUNC radio host Eric Hodge and UNC journalism student Mike Rodriguez. The discussion will cover Kasell’s career, his involvement with the early days of WUNC radio, and his experience breaking such news stories as the space shuttle Challenger explosion and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Kasell is a 1956 graduate of UNC. He and fellow UNC broadcast great Charles Kuralt helped to establish WUNC as a student-run FM station in 1953.

Starting at 5 p.m., attendees can enjoy a reception and view items from UNC’s University Archives related to Kasell’s time at UNC, his involvement with the university radio station, and his career at NPR.

The Genome Sciences Building is located at 250 Bell Tower Road, and is adjacent to the Bell Tower. The Ram’s Head Parking Deck provides convenient visitor parking.

Kasell, a Goldsboro, N.C., native first joined National Public Radio in 1975 as a news announcer for Weekend All Things Considered. From 1979 until his retirement in 2009, he was the daily news announcer for NPR’s Morning Edition.

He has since found new fame as the official judge and scorekeeper for the NPR weekly quiz show Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Lucky winners receive Kasell’s familiar voice recording a greeting on their home voice mail.

Kasell is a 2010 inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame. Other honors include the Leo C. Lee Friend of Public Radio News Award for lasting commitment to public radio journalism (1996) and induction to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame (2004).

UNC Friends of the Library, the University Archives and Records Management Services, WUNC, and the UNC School of Journalism are the sponsors of this event.

“When I Was at UNC”: Preserving the Work and Legacy of Student Organizations through Documentation

Student organizations have long been integral to the UNC experience, with more than 600 clubs, societies, and other groups in existence today.

On Tuesday, March 26, the University Archives will host “‘When I Was at UNC’: Preserving the Work and Legacy of Student Organizations through Documentation” at 5:30 p.m. in the UNC Student Union Room 3201.

The program will describe how student organizations can make their mark on Carolina permanent and ensure that their accomplishments are remembered by future generations.

It will also feature a display of manuscripts and photographs on the history of student organizations at UNC, scrapbooks from early fraternities, the original charter of the Campus YMCA, and old Yackety Yack yearbooks.

The event, sponsored by University Archives and Records Management Services and the Office of Student Activities and Organizations, will be presented by graduate students Carla Davis-Castro and Morgan Jones.

Students who have or know of materials relating to student organizations at UNC can also contact UNC Archivist Jay Gaidmore at (919) 962-6402 or gaidmore@email.unc.edu.

Related links:

• Why Donate Your Organization’s Records (Information from University Archives and Records Management Services)
• Student organizations virtual exhibit from the Virtual Museum of University History

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A new exhibition in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library explores the long history of free speech controversies at UNC.

A Right to Speak and to Hear: Academic Freedom and Free Expression at UNC will use original letters, documents and photographs to examine some of the University’s most contentious moments from the nineteenth century to the present.

It marks the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Speaker Ban. The controversial 1963 law forbade known members of the Communist party or those who advocated the overthrow of the federal or state government from speaking on campus. The Ban was overturned in 1968.

Visitors to the exhibit will see original materials from the Library’s North Carolina Collection, Southern Historical Collection, and University Archives and Records Management Services. Highlights include:

• A page from the early 19^th century “Laws of the University of North Carolina” barring students from delivering “indecent, profane, or immoral” speeches.

• The November 1939 “Sex Issue” of the Buccaneer. The student council ordered this issue of the student humor magazine burned. The Buccaneer had frequent run-ins with campus authorities and was banned from campus at one point.

• Video of UNC police chief Arthur Beaumont ordering Herbert Aptheker, a member of the Communist Party, off the campus in March 1966 during the Speaker Ban.

• A letter from David Duke, Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, to the Daily Tar Heel. Students shouted down Duke when he attempted to speak on campus in January 1975. He criticized the protesting students for “suppressing” his right to speak and for limiting their classmates’ right to hear.

• Postcards sent to Chancellor James Moeser as part of the Family Policy Council’s organized protest of the University’s summer reading selection for 2002, Approaching the Qu’ran: The Early Revelations by Michael Sells.

On April 11, former UNC student body president Robert Spearman (’65) will deliver the annual Gladys Hall Coates University History Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition.

Spearman—now an attorney in Raleigh—will recall student efforts to repeal the Speaker Ban, including his own testimony before a state commission tasked with revising the law.

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Silent Sam in History and Memory
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013
Free and open to the public
Wilson Special Collections Library
5 p.m. Display viewing | 5:30 p.m. Program
Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 548-1203

The early history of UNC’s controversial “Silent Sam” statue will be the topic of a free public lecture Jan. 22 at the Wilson Special Collections Library. “Silent Sam in History and Memory” marks the centennial of the Confederate memorial.

The program will consist of the following:

• Silent Sam exhibit from the Wilson Library special collections – 5 p.m.

View photographs and postcards; the address that Julian Shakespeare Carr delivered at the monument’s dedication on June 2, 1913; letters about UNC’s involvement in construction of the monument; and materials documenting protests against the monument.

• Original poetry reading – 5:30 p.m.

Will McInerney and C.J. Suitt, Chapel Hill community activists, will perform an original poem about the history of racism in Chapel Hill. The two are members of the Real Silent Sam Coalition and the Sacrificial Poets.

• “Silent Sam in History and Memory” Lecture – 5:35 p.m.

Fitz Brundage, William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor of History at UNC, and doctoral student Adam Domby will discuss the original impulse behind the monument, the role of the University community in building it, and changing views of the statue over time.

The lecture will also mark the formal release of the Library website Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina. Brundage was scholarly advisor to the site, which documents the state’s history through its monuments, shrines, and public art.

Silent Sam is one of 200 current entries, each one described, geo-referenced, and linked to a database of thousands of digitized postcards, photographs, print publications, and manuscript materials. Brundage and his students continue to add to the site.

The lecture is sponsored by the University Archives and Records Management Services in Wilson Library, Friends of the Library, and the Chapel Hill Historical Society.

By North Carolina statute, University records are public. Even confidential records belong to the citizens of North Carolina and can only be destroyed by consent of the state Department of Cultural Resources. However, not all documents must be kept in perpetuity.

The University Archives and Records Management Services (UARMS) recently developed new records retention instructions, called a schedule, for the entire University and the UNC General Administration.

“Dealing with papers, emails, and electronic files is a headache for most people,” said Lawrence Giffin, records services archivist in UARMS. “We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for them to know what the right thing is to do with these public documents.”

The schedule gives precise guidelines for 18 categories such as administrative, personnel, student, and financial records. While some types of records need only be held for a year, others must remain on file for several years. Still others must go to the University Archives in Wilson Library as part of the permanent historical record of the University and the state.

To make decisions easier, UARMS has created a FAQ and several quick reference guidelines for common topics such as managing faculty records and managing email.

Discarding personal, junk, and general emails is usually fine, said Giffin. Beyond that? “Each employee has a responsibility to determine whether the email has enduring value according to the guidelines.”

The schedule update also accounts for new types of communications, such as Facebook, Twitter, and other social media accounts.

Finally, Giffin said that he and his colleagues are available to assist, and they will even make house calls. “We can help most departments set up a process that will make records archiving just a routine part of University work.”

Contact Giffin at lgiffin@email.unc.edu or (919) 962-6402.

Related Links

• General Records Retention and Disposition Schedule
• About Records Management Services at UNC (with links to FAQ and other resources)

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Gridiron Glory Film Showings
Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (continuous 20-minute loop)
Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Free and open to the public
Information: (919) 962-3765 or wilsonlibrary@unc.edu

The football rivalry between UNC and North Carolina State University will be played out in the archives as well as on the field Oct. 27.

In this third annual Gridiron Glory event, great football moments from UNC’s past will again be on view in the Wilson Special Collections Library, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The 20-minute film, Gridiron Glory, will run in a continuous loop during the University’s Tar Heel Town pregame festivities.

New this year, the UNC University Archives and the NCSU University Archives will team up for an exhibit of football memorabilia from both schools. Programs from past match-ups between the two, historical photographs of both teams, and student newspapers will be on view. UNC and NCSU have been football rivals since 1894.

A special feature will be materials from the collection of Jack Hilliard, UNC class of 1963, including pennants, ticket stubs, bubble-gum cards, and sheet music for the song “All The Way Choo Choo” about UNC great Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice.

The film showings and exhibit are free and open to the public.

The archival film clips in Gridiron Glory feature highlights from 13 UNC games played between 1934 and 1985. Woody Durham, who retired last year as the “Voice of the Tar Heels,” provides the narration.

Among the highlights are:

• UNC’s first game against #1-ranked Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium in 1949, with a brief appearance by an injured Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice (#22);
• Justice passing, running, and kicking in the 1950 Cotton Bowl game against Rice University;
• All-America #85 Bob Lacey in the 1963 UNC vs. University of Virginia game;
• #20 “Famous Amos” Lawrence rushing against East Carolina in 1978.

Gridiron Glory films are drawn from the University Archives in Wilson Library, where they are part of the records of the UNC Football Office. Most are original 16mm recordings and are badly in need of repair.

To learn more about the University Archives’ football collections and the efforts to preserve UNC’s football films, contact Jay Gaidmore, University Archivist, gaidmore@email.unc.edu or (919) 962-6402.

Related Links

• Gridiron Glory preview (video selections only, no voice-over)
• Photos of Woody Durham recording sound for Gridiron Glory

Autograph of Julian Shakespeare Carr, "class of 1865-66," from the St. Anthony Hall fraternity autograph book. Carrboro, N.C. is named for Carr.

Members of the St. Anthony Hall fraternity at UNC and the St. Anthony Association of North Carolina have donated a Civil War-era autograph book to the University Archives in the Wilson Special Collections Library.

The autograph book includes signatures of members of the Xi Chapter of St. Anthony Hall (Delta Psi) who attended UNC from 1862 to 1865. Members of other UNC fraternities also signed the book. Many of the signers served in the Confederate Army and lost their lives in the Civil War.

The original owner of the autograph book, William C. Prout, was a St. Anthony Hall brother and the sole graduate of UNC’s class of 1865. In 1927, he presented the book to the Xi Chapter of Delta Psi, which restored it and maintained it in their archive.

The book reveals a great deal about the lives of the students who signed it, said UNC University Archivist Jay Gaidmore.

Notations include hometowns, majors, classes taken, and even the names of the signers’ girlfriends. Prout and his fraternity brother Grahame Wood later added death dates and annotations to identify those killed in the war.

St. Anthony intends to donate additional historical materials that document its history and the various activities in which its members have participated since the chapter reorganized in 1927 after closing in the aftermath of the Civil War.

About St. Anthony Hall at UNC

A literary and artistic fraternity, St. Anthony Hall includes a diverse group of writers, artists, and performers who are highly active in student life. Members have worked on the Daily Tar Heel, Phoenix magazine, Cellar Door, LAMBDA magazine, Shakespeare’s Sister, The Sixty-Niner and Yackety Yack; served in student government; played intramural and varsity sports; performed in choral, musical, and theater groups including PlayMakers Repertory Company and The LAB! Theatre; and are involved in community literary and artistic organizations including Paperhand Puppet Intervention, the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, The Performance Collective, Internationalist Books, The Somnambulist Project, and The Peoples Channel.

Known for its support of progressive causes, St. Anthony Hall was one of only two fraternities to sign a pledge in 1963 not to patronize segregated businesses and restaurants in Chapel Hill. Its members were active in the fight to end the Speaker Ban, and in the spring of 1971, St. Anthony Hall became the first UNC fraternity to go co-ed.

Xi chapter members have included journalist Charles Kuralt (’55); UNC soccer coach Anson Dorrance (’74); book critic Jonathan Yardley (’61); sportswriter Peter Gammons (’67); editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly (’69); and basketball player Charlie Scott (’68), the first African-American to join a fraternity and receive an athletic scholarship at UNC.

About the University Archives

The University Archives and Records Management Services (UARMS) last year launched an effort to reach out to student organizations to help them preserve their history. To learn more about this effort, contact Jay Gaidmore at (919) 962-6402 or gaidmore@email.unc.edu.

“We don’t have many records of fraternities at UNC and only a few from this early in UNC’s history,” said Gaidmore. “We are pleased to be entrusted with this valuable historical item and hope that St. Anthony Hall’s generosity will encourage other donations from the Greek system at UNC.”

Additional information about St. Anthony Hall and the autograph book can be found on the UARMS blog.

Related Links

• St. Anthony Hall donates autograph album from the 1860s (University Archives blog post)
• St. Anthony Hall fraternity at UNC
• St. Anthony Association of North Carolina
• UNC University Archives and Records Management Services

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An exhibit of Carolina Alumni Review covers and page spreads is now on view in the Wilson Special Collections Library to celebrate the 100^th anniversary of the magazine.

The Alumni Review, a publication of the General Alumni Association (GAA), debuted in October 1912.

To mark the centennial, 35 enlarged covers and five page spreads are on display in the first floor corridor of Wilson Library.

The covers on view include the magazine’s first issue, featuring a drawing of Caldwell Hall, which opened in 1912. Other covers highlight iconic photos of the campus, as well as articles covering key events in University history, such as the admission of UNC’s first African-American undergraduates, the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on Chapel Hill, the 2005 NCAA basketball championship, and the University’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Through an agreement with the Library, the Alumni Review’s complete archive has also been digitized and is available online on the GAA site. Issues from the most recent five years are available to GAA members only, as a benefit of membership; earlier issues are open to anyone.

The exhibit is sponsored by the University Library and the General Alumni Association and will be on view indefinitely.

For exhibit information, contact Wilson Library,  wilsonlibrary@unc.edu or (919) 962-3765.

Related Links

• Digitized issues of the Carolina Alumni Review

Preserving Your Intellectual Legacy at UNC

An Information Session for Faculty and Staff Nearing Retirement
Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012
4-6 p.m.
Wilson Special Collections Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Information: Emily Silverman, Library Development, (919) 962-3437

Retiring faculty and staff members can get answers to the question “What do I do with my books and papers?” during a free program on Sept. 6, from 4 to 6 p.m., in the Wilson Special Collections Library.

Librarians and archivists will discuss ways to preserve your intellectual legacy at UNC by donating books and papers to the Library, and options for placing scholarly materials elsewhere if the UNC Library is unable to accept them. Attendees will also learn about achieving charitable goals through gift planning.

Following the panel discussion and Q & A, a reception will take place in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library.

Topics will be:

• Managing and placing your personal book collections – Libby Chenault, Davis Library
• Preserving your scholarly work (papers, research materials, data) – Jay Gaidmore, University Archives
• Accomplishing personal and charitable goals at Carolina – Elizabeth Ayers, J.D., Gift Planning

Registration is requested. RSVP by Aug. 31 to Emily Silverman, Associate Director of Library Development, (919) 962-3437 or essilver@email.unc.edu.

Spouses and guests are welcome.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the Office of Gift Planning.

A young Jesse Jackson at North Carolina A&T University in 1964.

Yearbooks from 14 of the 17 UNC system institutions – plus 37 other schools – are now archived together online, thanks to a project based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.

The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has scanned and posted the yearbooks as part of the center’s efforts to digitize and preserve college and university yearbooks from across the state.

History buffs and alumni can glimpse these and other famous grads as young adults:

• Andy Griffith as president of the glee club at Chapel Hill in 1947;
• Jesse Jackson as president of the student government at North Carolina A&T University in 1964;
• ESPN reporter Stephen A. Smith at Winston-Salem State University in 1991;
• Singer Emmylou Harris at UNC Greensboro in 1966; and
• A bearded David Sedaris of later literary fame at Western Carolina University in 1976.

So far, the project has scanned more than 800,000 pages from 51 schools, including 14 of the 15 university-level institutions in the UNC system. The earliest is the 1890 “Hellenian” from Chapel Hill. North Carolina State University previously digitized its yearbooks independently.

Author David Sedaris at Western Carolina University in 1976.

In addition to celebrity-spotting, the yearbooks highlight changes in student culture and life, said Nick Graham, program coordinator for the center.

“The one constant across the years has been sports,” said Graham.

The North Carolina Collection at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library manages the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. The center works with libraries, museums, historical societies, and cultural institutions across the state to publish historical materials online.

The center is currently expanding the North Carolina Yearbooks collection by reaching out to community colleges, said Graham.

Another major program is the effort to digitize old runs of campus and community newspapers from across the state.

The State Library of North Carolina supports the center with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library and Services and Technology Act. UNC contributes the technical and administrative infrastructure and the expertise of staff consultants.

Related Links

• Yearbooks from 51 N.C. colleges, universities archived together online (UNC news release)
• North Carolina Colleges and University Yearbooks
• North Carolina Digital Heritage Center