Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the North Carolina Xi of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Records #40334, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Benson R. Wilcox, March 2010 (Records transfer 20100324.1).

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• College students--North Carolina--Photographs.
• College students--North Carolina--Societies, etc.
• Greek letter societies--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Scrapbooks.
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon. North Carolina Xi.
• Student activities--North Carolina.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Societies, etc.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Photographs.
• Wilcox, Benson R.

The North Carolina Xi chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was established at the University of North Carolina in 1857. It was the third chapter of the fraternity, which was founded at the University of Alabama in 1856.

Records consist of two scrapbooks compiled by Dr. Benson R. Wilcox, who attended the University of North Carolina as an undergraduate and as a medical student from 1949 to 1957. The scrapbooks, compiled in 1951-1952 and 1954, include photographs of fraternity members and their dates along with news clippings and telegrams. As an undergraduate, Dr. Wilcox served as Sigma Alpha Epsilon president.