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Communist Party member Herbert Aptheker (right) on campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to deliver lecture against the war in Vietnam, during the Speaker Ban era (9 March 1966); P0069/0188_0001, in the Jock Lauterer Photographic Collection (P0069), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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| Size | Approximately 3,530 items |
| Abstract | Jock Lauterer of Chapel Hill, N.C., is a photojournalist and educator who teaches community journalism, photojournalism, and newswriting classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he received his undergraduate degree in 1967. He is the founding director of the Carolina Community Media Project, an outreach initiative in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Prior to returning to his alma mater in 2001, he created and ran the photojournalism program at Pennsylvania State University. The collection is predominantly composed of images of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the town of Chapel Hill, N.C., made from circa 1964-1968, when the photographer was an undergraduate student at UNC. The largest grouping of negatives documents the UNC Men’s Glee Club European Tour of 1966. Other images portray life in Chapel Hill, the UNC campus, and university activities. Lauterer captured small-town life; the serenity of campus; sporting events; and the effects of politically charged times on a small community, including anti-war protests, Speaker Ban protests, civil rights marches and speeches, and a Ku Klux Klan rally. Many of the images include persons of national or local significance. |
| Creator | Lauterer, Jock. |
| Language | English |
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Jonathan Gregory "Jock" Lauterer was born in Bronxville, N.Y., but lived most of his life through the completion of his college education in Chapel Hill, N.C. He once professed that he began working at the age of seven at the Chapel Hill Weekly--the same newspaper where he was employed as a reporter and photographer during the summer of 1967 after graduating with a double major in journalism and geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lauterer excelled in photography even while a student at Chapel Hill High School, where he earned recognition from the North Carolina Scholastic Press Association. During his years as an undergraduate, Lauterer participated actively as a photographer and photography editor for the university’s student-run newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel, participating in editorial decisions that reflected the rapidly changing nature of the college campus and current events of the mid 1960s. Lauterer not only contributed significant numbers of photographs, but also influenced the visual treatment of the publication.
Photographs with Lauterer’s byline first appear in the 1 August 1963 weekly summer edition of the Daily Tar Heel. The daily first printed photographs credited to Lauterer in the 1 April 1964 edition, part of a two-page spread covering a Klu Klux Klan rally in Chapel Hill. During the remaining months of the 1963–1964 academic year, the newspaper published his photographs in association with three other stories. This work led the Daily Tar Heel to select Lauterer as its photography editor for the 1964–1965 edition, succeeding James "Jim" H. Wallace Jr.
There are no photographs credited to Lauterer in the Daily Tar Heel during the following academic year; staff rosters list Ernest Robl as the photographer, with no photography editor. During the summer of 1966, Lauterer accompanied the UNC Glee Club on its five-week tour of Europe. In 1966–1967, Lauterer reemerged as the photography editor, and his images consistently appear in the Daily Tar Heel--including several photographs and a written account of the glee club tour in the 13 September issue. A sidebar accompanying that article states that Lauterer’s "sharp and imaginative work has been cited time and time again as a determining factor in the success of the Daily Tar Heel in collegiate press competition."
Ultimately, the relationship between Lauterer and the Daily Tar Heel was mutually beneficial; the range of his work and his readiness to make the campus a part of the larger community was a direction the paper would continue to follow. His experience led him to a long career in community journalism, one that brought him back to UNC--this time as an educator.
In addition to exposure in the student newspaper, Lauterer’s work was featured in a solo exhibition on the UNC campus in Howell Hall in May 1966, and the book Only in Chapel Hill: a Photographic Essay was published for the School of Journalism Foundation of North Carolina by the Colonial Press in 1967.
After his collegiate career, Lauterer went on to become a journalist, editor, and publisher for the McDowell Express in Marion, N.C., and the Daily Courier in Forest City, N.C. He redirected his career to become a professor in the Communications Studies department at Pennsylvania State University for more than nine years. In 2000, Lauterer returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a teacher and photographer for the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and the founding director of the Carolina Community Media Project .
Lauterer’s published books include Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ for My Journey Now (1980); Runnin’ on Rims: Appalachian Profiles (1986); Hogwild: a Back-to-the-Land Saga (1993); and Community Journalism: the Personal Approach (1995 and 2000). He also writes regular columns for the Chapel Hill Herald and the Carrboro Citizen.
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The Jock Lauterer Collection is predominantly composed of images of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the town of Chapel Hill, N.C., made from circa 1964-1968, when the photographer was an undergraduate student at UNC. The largest grouping of negatives documents the UNC Men’s Glee Club European Tour of 1966. Other images portray life in Chapel Hill, the UNC campus, and university activities. Lauterer captured small-town life; the serenity of campus; sporting events; and the effects of politically charged times on a small community, including anti-war protests, Speaker Ban protests, civil rights marches and speeches, and a Ku Klux Klan rally. Many of the images include persons of national or local significance.
The collection contains many of the images found in Lauterer’s 1967 book Only in Chapel Hill. Lauterer and Wayne A. Danielson, Dean of the School of Communication and the book’s editor, grappled with the question of what content to include that would show the "piquant flavor" of Chapel Hill and campus life versus what Lauterer had seen in his four years at UNC. At that time, Lauterer seemed to prefer the "nicer" images of animals and everyday life, as apparent from his editorial decisions at the Daily Tar Heel and Only in Chapel Hill. Lauterer was fully engaged with events on campus and locally, however, and he made many images of political strife, rallies, and "be-ins" that represented student life of the late 1960s. He included many of these images in Only in Chapel Hill, with the quotation "I remember all the causes, too ... They were important to some of us and we fought for them."
Lauterer sometimes used both 35mm and 120 camera formats to capture the same subject. Many negatives can be matched to prints in the collection, a substantial number of which were included in Only in Chapel Hill. More than 75 negatives have been identified by the processor as photographs that appeared in the Daily Tar Heel between 1965 and 1967. Publication notes below include information about when/where Lauterer images were published, where known. (Abbreviations decoded as follows: OINCH is Only in Chapel Hill ; DTH is the Daily Tar Heel ).
The Jock Lauterer Collection is organized into two series: 1. Chapel Hill; and 2. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additional subject-based subseries are included within both series. Lauterer often labeled his negatives with whimsical abbreviations or colloquial terms, such as "Med Skool" or "Feetball." Where provided, original descriptions have been maintained and are listed in quotation marks below. Processors supplied descriptions where none were included and sometimes clarified original descriptions with information contained in parentheses.
Physical organization of the Lauterer Collection is as follows:
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Series 1. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, circa
1964-1967.
Arrangement: By subject.
This series consists of approximately 427 images of the town and people of Chapel Hill, N.C., during the period from circa 1964 to 1967. The Chapel Hill series is divided into four subseries: 1.1. Events; 1.2. Portraits; 1.3. Protests; and 1.4. Scenes.
Series 1 materials are housed in:
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Subseries 1.1. Events, circa
1964-1967
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Subseries 1.2. Portraits, circa
1964-1967
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Subseries 1.3. Protests, circa
1964-1967
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Subseries 1.4. Scenes, circa
1964-1967
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Series 2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, circa 1964-1968.
Arrangement: By subject.
This series consists of approximately 3,095 images of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the period from circa 1964 to 1968. The series is divided into six subseries: 2.1. Athletics; 2.2. Campus Scenes; 2.3. Employees; 2.4. Events; 2.5. Glee Club; and 2.6. Students.
Series 2 materials are housed in:
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Subseries 2.1. Athletics, circa
1964-1968
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Subseries 2.2. Campus Scenes, circa
1964-1967
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Subseries 2.3. Employees, circa
1964-1967
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Subseries 2.4. Events, circa
1964-1967
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Subseries 2.5. Glee Club, Summer
1966
Images taken in the summer of 1966, when Lauterer accompanied the UNC Glee Club on its five-week tour of Europe.
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Subseries 2.6. Students, circa
1964-1967
Processed by: North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, 2001 and 2010
Encoded by: Elizabeth Hull, September 2010
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