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Gladys Hall CoatesA native of Portsmouth, Virginia, and graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Gladys Hall Coates moved to Chapel Hill in 1928 after marrying Albert McKinley Coates (UNC Class of 1918). The couple immediately immersed themselves in the life of the University and community, he through his position as professor of law and she through civic and cultural organizations. In 1931, they established the Institute (now School) of Government, initially using their own funds to finance the Institute's activities. Mr. Coates served ad director until 1961, always crediting Mrs. Coates as the Institute's indispensable "staff member without portfolio." Today the School of Government serves as a model for other states as the oldest, largest, and most influential university-based public service organization in the United States. During her seventy-four years in Chapel Hill, Gladys Coates not only assisted Albert in developing the directing the Institute of Government but also frequently conducted research on and wrote about various University-related topics. Her special interests included the history of women at the University; the Dialectic and Philanthropic societies, especially their portrait collections; and author and University alumnus Thomas Wolfe. In 1985, she and Mr. Coates coauthored the 435-page The Story of Student Government in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2001, the University awarded Mrs. Coates, then age 99, an honorary doctor of laws degree. Her other honors included the William Richardson Davie Award, the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award, and the Distinguished Service Medal from the UNC-0Chapel Hill General Alumni Association. In 1997, the University building at 223 East Franklin Street housed the Institute of Government was renamed the Albert and Gladys Coates Building. With the establishment of the Gladys Hall Coates Professor of Law and Government in the School of Government, the couple was the first to have separate endowed professorships named in their honor at the University. On 25 September 2002, thirteen years after her husband's death, Gladys Coates died in Chapel Hill. |
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What is a University? The Perspectives of UNC's Antebellum Students |
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 - 6:00 pm -- Harry L. Watson, Professor, History
Department , Director of the Center for the American South |
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James L. Leloudis II is Associate Dean for Honors and serves as Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a native or Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and a Carolina alumnus. He earned his B.A. in History with highest honors in 1977 and completed the PhD. in 1989. In the latter year, he joined the faculty of the History Department, where he teaches courses on higher education, North Carolina, and the contemporary South. He is the recipient of an Undergraduate Students Teaching Award and the Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Award for Outstanding Scholarly Accomplishment by Young Faculty. His published works include Like a Family: The Making of a Souther Cotton Mill World. (1987), and Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920 (1996), both from the University of North Carolina Press. Professor Leloudis is currently working on two research projects, one on the War on Poverty in the South and the other on race, ethnicity, and education in the years since desegregation. |
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Erika Lindemann is Professor of English and Interim Chair of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her B.A. from the University of Georgia, with honors in English, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in English. She joined the faculty at Chapel Hill as Associate Professor of English in 1980, after several years with the Department of English at the University of South Carolina, where she was Director of Freshman English. She was Director of Composition at Chapel Hill from 1980-1985, 1986-1990, 1995-1998, and 1999-2002. From 1991-1995, she served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School. Books she has authored or edited include English Essays, Literary and Linguistic (Scholars Guild, 1975); A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (Oxford, 1982, 1987, 1995, 2001); The Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric (1987, 1988); An Introduction to Composition Studies (Oxford, 1991); and Profiles for Writing Programs in the Alliance for Undergraduate Education (Pennsylvania State University, 1993). She has also published extensively in journals and scholarly proceedings and lectured at numerous conferences and workshops. She has received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the UNC Women's Issues Network and Executive Branch of Student Government (1996); University Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instructions (2001); Association of English Graduate Students Award for Mentoring Students (2004); and Exemplar Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication (2005). |
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Harry L. Watson is a native of Greensboro, NC. He received his bachelor’s
degree from Brown University in 1971 and his doctorate in history from
Northwestern in 1976. His teaching and research interests focus on the
antebellum South, the early American republic, and the state of North
Carolina. Watson joined the History Department of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976 and now holds the rank of professor.
He received the Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Award at Carolina
in 2002. Since 1999, he has served as Director of the UNC Center for
the Study of the American South, and has co-edited the Center’s
quarterly journal Southern Cultures since its inception in
1994. He currently serves on the North Carolina Historical Commission
and advises the Secretary of Cultural Resources on state historical
policies. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the South Atlantic
Regional Humanities Center; Research Laboratories in Archeology at UNC-CH;
and Documenting the American South; while participating in the Distinguished
Lecturer program of the Organization of American Historians. Watson
is the author of four books, including Liberty and Power: The Politics
of Jacksonian America (1990 and 2nd revised edition, 2006) and
Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum
America (1997). With James L. Peacock and Carrie R. Matthews, he
is co-editor of The American South in a Global World (2005)
and he is currently working on a history of the United States, to be
entitled The American Republic. |
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