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Collection Number: 40192

Collection Title: Selection Committee for the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women Records, 1953-1995

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Size 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 600 items)
Abstract The North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women has been presented annually since 1950 by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Epsilon Beta Chapter of Chi Omega Fraternity. The award recognizes a long and distinguished career or achievement by a North Carolina woman. The Selection Committee is made up of representatives of the university administration along with student and alumna members of the fraternity. The Original Accession of the committee records was largely generated under Chair Douglass Hunt, 1973-1995. It includes correspondence, 1975-1995; meeting minutes, 1971-1993; copies of award citations; and speeches delivered by award recipients. Most of the citations and speeches are post-1970. The Addition of March 2014 consists of records kept by Division of Student Affairs staff who provided administrative support to the committee, beginning with Dean of Women Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, who served as its secretary from the 1950s through 1977. These records are duplicative of some of the materials in the Original Accession, but they include the bulk of the materials related to the awards given prior to 1972. Included are files on awards given 1954-1992, which include committee minutes, lists of nominees, correspondence, and some citations and speeches.
Creator Selection Committee for the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives.
Language English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Selection Committee for the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women Records #40192, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Provenance
Transferred from the Office of the Special Assistant to the Chancellor (Douglass Hunt) in June 1996 (Records transfer 19960606.1). The Addition of March 2014 was transferred from the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Community Involvement in August 2013 (Records transfer 20130819.1).The Addition of December 2017 was transferred in December 2017 (RT 20171219.1).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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First conferred in 1950, the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women recognizes a long and distinguished career or achievement by a North Carolina woman. Though the award is given by the Epsilon Beta Chapter of the Chi Omega Fraternity, its creation and evolution were heavily influenced by University of North Carolina Chancellor Robert B. House and Dean of Women Katherine Kennedy Carmichael.

The award is presented at the Eleusinian Banquet, the annual affair of Chi Omega, and the recipient gives an address. The speech is autobiographical in nature, detailing her work and achievements, and is meant to present a career worthy of emulation by the sisters. A manuscript of the address is then submitted to the University Library's North Carolina Collection for preservation.

The Selection Committee meets annually to choose the recipient. It has been customary for the chancellor of the university to serve as, or select, the chair. The Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs has chosen the committee secretary from his or her staff, and the chair of Epsilon Beta's House Committee has chosen the remaining members from the university and Chapel Hill communities. In 1971, the women of Epsilon Beta began making award nominations to the Selection Committee, although the committee did send suggestions to the chapter.

Chancellor House chaired the committee in its early years, and Dean Carmichael served as secretary. Douglass Hunt, who was Vice Chancellor for Administration and later Special Assistant to the Chancellor, had the longest tenure as chair, from 1973 until his retirement in 1995.

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The Original Accession of the records of the Selection Committee for the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women was largely generated under Chair Douglass Hunt, 1973-1995. It includes correspondence, 1975-1995; meeting minutes, 1971-1993; copies of award citations; and speeches delivered by award recipients. Most of the citations and speeches are post-1970. The Addition of March 2014 consists of records kept by Division of Student Affairs staff who provided administrative support to the committee, beginning with Dean of Women Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, who served as its secretary from the 1950s through 1977. These records are duplicative of some of the materials in the Original Accession, but they include the bulk of the materials related to the awards given prior to 1972. Included are files on awards given 1954-1992, which include committee minutes, lists of nominees, correspondence, and some citations and speeches. Files in the Addition tend to include more supplemental materials than the files in the Original Accession. Researchers should consult both the Original Accession and the Addition of March 2014 to be sure of finding all the items related to a particular award.

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Contents list

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About 300 items.

Records of the Selection Committee for the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women, largely generated under Chair Douglass Hunt, 1973-1995. Included are correspondence, 1975-1995; meeting minutes, 1971-1993; copies of award citations; and speeches delivered by award recipients.

Box 1

Folder 1

Correspondence, 1975-1995

Box 1

Folder 2

Minutes, 1971-1993

Box 1

Folder 3-5

Folder 3

Folder 4

Folder 5

Speeches and Citations, 1956-1995

Alphabetical by recipient; only scattered copies before 1970. Also included are copies of newspaper clippings and press releases.

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About 300 items.

Records kept by Division of Student Affairs staff who provided administrative support to the Selection Committee for the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women, beginning with Dean of Women Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, who served as secretary to the committee from the 1950s through 1977. These records are duplicative of some of the materials in the Original Accession, but they include the bulk of the materials related to the awards given prior to 1972.

Box 1

Folder 6

Correspondence, General, 1955-1991

Mostly related to efforts, 1975-1976, to locate and compile the speeches of the award recipients.

Box 1

Folder 7

Lists of Award Recipients

Lists compiled 1984-1991 but including recipients 1950-1991.

Box 1

Folder 8

Procedures, 1976-1984

Oversize Paper OP-40192/1

1953 Award citation, 20 April 1953

Ruth Current, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 9

1954 Award file, 1954

Kate Burr Johnson, recipient.

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1955 Award citation, 1955

Guion Griffis Johnson, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 10

1955 Award file, 1955

See OP-40192/2.

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1957 Award citation, 1957

Harriet Susan Parrott, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 11

1957 Award file, 1957

See OP-40192/3.

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1957 Award citation, 25 March 1957

Robert Burton House, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 12

1958 Award file, 1957-1958

Alice Mary Baldwin, recipient.

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1959 Award citation, 1959

Susie Marshall Sharp, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 13

1959 Award file, 1958-1959

See OP-40192/5.

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1960 Award citation, 1960

Katharine Jocher, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 14

1960 Award file, 1959-1960

See OP-40192/6.

Oversize Paper OP-40192/7

1961 Award citation, 1961

Sadie McBrayer McCain, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 15

1961 Award file, 1960-1961

See OP-40192/7.

Box 1

Folder 16

1962 Award file, 1961

Gladys Avery Tillett, recipient.

Oversize Paper OP-40192/8

1963 Award citation, 1963

Fay Webb Gardner, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 17

1963 Award file, 1962-1963

See OP-40192/8.

Box 1

Folder 18

1964 Award file, 1963-1964

Bernice Kelly Harris, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 19

1965 Award file, 1964-1965

Mary Shotwell, recipient.

Oversize Paper OP-40192/9

1966 Award citation, 1966

Susan Grey Akers, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 20

1966 Award file, 1965-1966

See OP-40192/9.

Box 1

Folder 21

1967 Award file, 1966-1967

Rachel Darden Davis, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 22

1968 Award file, 1967-1968

Bonnie Ethel Cone, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 23

1969 Award file, 1968-1969

Lois Virginia Edinger, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 24

1970 Award file, 1970

Ellen Black Winston, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 25

1971 Award file, 1970-1971

Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 26

1972 Award file, 1971-1972

Lucy Shields Morgan, recipient.

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1973 Award citation, 1973

May Belle Penn Jones, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 27

1973 Award file, 1972-1973

See OP-40192/10.

Box 1

Folder 28

1974 Award file, 1973-1974

Gladys Hall Coates, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 29

1975 Award file, 1974-1975

Kathrine Robinson Everett, recipient.

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1976 Award citation, 1976

Emma Neal Morrison, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 30

1976 Award file, 1975-1976

See OP-40192/11.

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1977 Award citation, 1977

Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 31

1977 Award file, 1976-1977

See OP-40192/12.

Box 1

Folder 32

1978 Award file, 1977

Mary Claire Engstrom, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 33

1979 Award file, 1978

Margaret Taylor Harper, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 34

1980 Award file, 1979-1980

Adeline Denham McCall, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 35

1981 Award file, 1980-1981

Naomi Elizabeth Morris, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 36

1982 Award file, 1981

Doris Waugh Betts, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 37

1983 Award file, 1982-1983

Anne Firor Scott, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 38

1984 Award file, 1983

Ida Howell Friday, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 39

1985 Award file, 1984-1985

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 40

1986 Award file, 1985-1986

Jane DeHart-Mathews, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 41

1987 Award file, 1986-1987

Sarah Taylor Morrow, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 42

1988 Award file, 1987-1988

Jane Smith Patterson, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 43

1989 Award file, 1988-1989

Helen Grey Edmonds, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 44

1990 Award file, 1989-1990

Lee Smith, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 45

1991 Award file, 1990-1991

Jane Triplett Carswell, recipient.

Oversize Paper OP-40192/13

1992 Award citation, 1992

Maxine McMahon Swalin, recipient.

Box 1

Folder 46

1992 Award file, 1992

See OP-40192/13.

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Audiocassette C-40192/1

Dr. Jane T. Carswell-remarks to Eleusinian Banquet, 10 April 1991: tape 1 of 2

Audiocassette

From 20171219.1.

Audiocassette C-40192/2

Dr. Jane T. Carswell-remarks to Eleusinian Banquet, 10 April 1991: tape 2 of 2

Audiocassette

From 20171219.1.

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