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Extent: 415 items
Format(s): black-and-white negatives and photographs, color negatives and photographs, 35mm color slides, and drawings
Biographical Sketch: William Clyde Friday was born on July 13, 1920 in Raphine, Virginia, the son of David L. and Mary E. Rowan Friday. The family moved to North Carolina and Friday grew up in Dallas, Gaston County. After attending Wake Forest College he graduated from North Carolina State University with a B.S. degree in textile engineering in 1941.
Friday married Ida Howell on May 13, 1942 and served as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 until 1946. He received the LL.B. degree from the Law School of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1948. From then until 1951 he served as assistant dean of students at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was named assistant to University President Gordon Gray in 1951. He was appointed secretary of the University in 1955, named acting president of the consolidated university system in 1956, and became president later in the year. Friday served in this position for thirty years until his retirement in 1986, the longest-serving university president of the twentieth century.
Friday chaired the American Council on Education in 1964, the President's Task Force on Education in 1966-67, the Association of American Universities in 1971, and the Center for Creative Leadership in 1981. He served on the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, the Commission to study the State University of New York, the Southern Regional Education Board, the Commission of White House Fellows (1965-68), the National Committee for Bicentennial Era, the Commission of National Changes in Higher Education, the Governors Commission on Literacy (1987), the Regional Literacy Center Commission (1989-90), the Southern Growth Policies Board, and the Knight Foundation National Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (1989-1993). Friday has received numerous honorary degrees from institutions of higher learning.
Collection Description: The collection covers the period from ca. 1951 to ca. 1986, documenting Friday and his activities as President of the University of North Carolina. Major topics covered include Friday's inauguration as University President, the 1961 visit of President John F. Kennedy to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the UNC Board of Trustees, and Friday's television interview program "North Carolina People." In addition to Friday, other prominent individuals represented in the Collection include:
Aycock, William Brantley
Bennett, Burt
Bowles, Hargrove "Skipper"
Brinkley, David McClure
Broyhill, James
Ford, Gerald R.
Friday, Ida Willa Howell
Graham, Frank Porter
House, Robert Burton
Hunt, James Baxter
Jenkins, Leo Warren
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Kyser, James Kern "Kay"
Nixon, Richard Milhous
Scott, Robert Walter
Wicker, Thomas Gray "Tom"
Yow, Kay
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