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Aycock taught in the law school at Chapel Hill and was chancellor from 1957 to 1964. In 1961 he suspended a basketball player who had taken money from a gambler, saying the integrity of the institution was involved, and made Dean Smith head coach. He called the 1963 speaker ban law an insult.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: Former Chancellor William B. Aycock dies at 99
Also found in catalogs as William B. (William Brantley) Aycock, William Brantley Aycock.
1915–2015 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
29 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by William B. Aycock.
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Collected speeches and statements, 1957 to 1989, of William Brantley Aycock, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 to 1964 and later Kenan Professor of Law. Published in 1989, 558 pages.
Grace Aycock (1919-1996), wife of University of North Carolina chancellor William B. Aycock, recalls her life and the social side of running the chancellor's household in Chapel Hill, in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded March 28, 1990, by Frances A. Weaver. Raised in Greene County in eastern North Carolina in the 1920s and 30s, she spent a year at Duke from 1936 before finishing her degree in 1939 at what is now UNC Greensboro. Published online in 2007 in Documenting the American South.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Aycock, William B. -- 1915-2015.
Lynn Roundtree covers the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 1957 and 1972 through its three chancellors, William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp and J. Carlyle Sitterson, set against the student movements of those years. Part of the Coates university leadership series, published by the author in 2024 and running to 926 pages. It is twentieth century campus history.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Aycock, William B. (William Brantley), 1915-2015.
A documentary on DVD, issued in 2015, following North Carolina from the 1920s to 1972 through the careers of university president William C. Friday and Governor Terry Sanford. Interviews with college presidents and governors carry the film, which takes in state politics, economic development and social conditions across those decades. Other figures include William B. Aycock, born in 1915.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Aycock, William B. 1915-.
Memorial collection assembled by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for William B. Aycock, 1915 to 2015, who taught in the School of Law and served as chancellor. Issued as an online resource.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Aycock, William B. (William Brantley), 1915-2015.
Judith Welch Wegner's tribute to William B. Aycock, 1915 to 2015, honored by the North Caroliniana Society. Aycock spent his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was one of its leaders. Printed in Chapel Hill in 2007 in an edition limited to three hundred fifty copies, 28 pages with portraits.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Aycock, William B. 1915-.
Dean Smith, UNC's men's basketball coach, stands with former chancellor William B. 'Bill' Aycock outside the Dean Smith Activities Center in Chapel Hill in January 1990. Photographed by Hugh Morton on 35 mm black-and-white film.
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Orville Campbell and former chancellor William B. Aycock stand beside the marker for Old East on the UNC campus, with the Old Well behind them. Hugh Morton took the picture on 21 February 1988.
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Photographs produced by the Photographic Services unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1976 and 2003, about 2,500 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Includes a run of copy negatives, 1977 to 2006. Subjects include William Aycock, Doris Betts, Reynolds Price, Dean Smith, William S. Powell and Hugh Morton.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Aycock, William B. (William Brantley), 1915-2015.
Hugh Morton film for the North Carolina Film Board of the state's memorial program for President John F. Kennedy, held in Kenan Stadium at Chapel Hill on 17 May 1964. Governor Terry Sanford, Luther H. Hodges and Billy Graham are among the speakers; Edward M. Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and William B. Aycock also appear. Part of the North Carolina Sights and Sounds collection.
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Speeches and statements by William Brantley Aycock, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 to 1964, gathered by the University News Bureau in Chapel Hill at the close of his term. 127 pages at 23 cm.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Aycock, William Brantley.
Two albums kept by William B. Aycock (1915-2015), chancellor and law teacher at Chapel Hill, dated 1963 to 1964 and 1986, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3287.14.15. The albums concern college administrators and law teachers in North Carolina in the twentieth century, with the School of Law faculty named.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Aycock, William B. (William Brantley), 1915-2015.
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Picture: William B. Aycock, 1959. Public domain. library.digitalnc.org; via Wikimedia Commons
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