This Day in the History of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Author Doris Betts delivered an address at the Katherine Kennedy Carmichael Residence Hall dedication ceremony. Carmichael came to the University in 1946 as dean of women with an adjunct appointment as lecturer in the English Department. After holding these positions for 26 years, she became associate dean of student affairs in 1972. She died June 26, 1982, in Birmingham, Alabama.