Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #4621
                    ARNOLD KIMSEY KING PAPERS
                        Initial Inventory

Abstract:      Arnold Kimsey King of Hendersonville, N.C., who
           taught in the School of Education at the University of
           North Carolina, Chapel Hill, beginning in 1925.  He
           was later associate dean of the Graduate School before
           moving, in 1964, to the General Administration of the
           multicampus University of North Carolina.  He was vice
           president for institutional studies from 1964 to 1971,
           when he was named special assistant to the president. 
           In the 1960s, King helped persuade the North Carolina
           General Assembly to add campuses at Wilmington,
           Charlotte, and Asheville to the UNC system.  He was
           the author of The Multicampus University of North
           Carolina Comes of Age, 1956-1986 (1987).
               Materials include subject files, chiefly relating
           to personal activities; correspondence, including some
           family letters from the 1920s, when King was a student
           at the University of Chicago, and other letters,
           1950s-1980s, chiefly about awards King received;
           biographical materials, clippings, and awards,
           1920s-1980s; writings, including drafts of King's
           dissertation on Thomas Paine and his history of UNC;
           writings by others, chiefly about UNC, higher
           education, and Thomas Paine; and pictures, chiefly
           photographs of King, with some family pictures,
           probably from the 1910s.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Education, Higher--North Carolina.
   King, Arnold Kimsey, 1901-1992.
   Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
   Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Administration.
   University of Chicago--Students--Social life and customs.
   University of North Carolina (1796-1962)--Faculty.
   University of North Carolina (System)--Administration.
   University of North Carolina (System)--Officials and
       employees.

Size:          About 1,000 items (10.5 linear feet).

Provenance:    Gift of Mrs. Arnold K. King of Chapel Hill, N.C.,
               in June 1992.

Access:        Unprocessed, but may be used except for grade
               books in Box 2, which are RESTRICTED.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Biographical Note
   Description

                        BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

   Arnold Kimsey King was born in Hendersonville, N.C., 31 August
1901.  He married Edna Coates (d. 1978) of Smithfield, N.C., on
31 August 1929.  The couple had three children:  Arnold Kimsey,
Jr., a Methodist minister; William Dennis, a writer and editor;
and Mary Ann, an elementary school reading specialist.  King
married Louise Tunstall of Creedmoor, N.C., on 6 April 1979.

   King took his first job in the School of Education at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, shortly after
receiving his baccalaureate degree from the University in 1925. 
Later, he earned a master's and doctorate in history from the
University of Chicago.  For almost 40 years, King served on the
Chapel Hill faculty in various posts, including associate dean of
the Graduate School.  In 1964, he joined the General
Administration of the multicampus University of North Carolina. 
He was vice president for institutional studies from 1964 to
1971, when he was named special assistant to the president.  He
retired in 1986.

   In the 1960s, King helped persuade the North Carolina General
Assembly to add campuses at Wilmington, Charlotte, and Asheville
to the UNC system.  In 1977, at the age of 75, he served as
temporary chancellor at UNC Asheville.  After he retired, King
wrote a 350-page history of UNC entitled The Multicampus
University of North Carolina Comes of Age, 1956-1986 (1987).

(Based on obituary in Board of Governors Quarterly, Spring 1992,
p. 6.)

                           DESCRIPTION

Box 1      Miscellaneous subject files, chiefly relating to
               personal activities.
           Correspondence, including some family letters from the
               1920s, when King was a student at the University
               of Chicago, and other letters, 1950s-1980s,
               chiefly about awards King received.

Box 2      Biographical materials, clippings, and awards,
               1920s-1980s, including school reports and other
               school memorabilia.
           Grade books from classes King taught beginning in the
               1920s (RESTRICTED).

Boxes 3-4  Writings, including drafts of King's dissertation,
               Thomas Paine in America, 1774-1787 (University of
               Chicago, 1951) and of The Multicampus University
               of North Carolina Comes of Age, 1956-1986 (1987). 
               There are also a few papers that King produced as
               a student in various history courses at the
               University of Chicago.

Boxes 5-6  Writings by others, mostly printed materials, chiefly
               relating to the University of North Carolina,
               higher education in general, teacher education,
               and Thomas Paine.

Box 7      Writings by others (continued).
           Pictures, 1900s-1980s, mostly of King at various ages.
               Included are several family photographs, probably
               from the 1910s.