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Jeffery Beam

Jeffery Beam, a poet born and raised in Kannapolis, worked as assistant to the biology librarian in the Botany Library at UNC-Chapel Hill and performed Winter Stories for Children of All Ages at the university each year from 1993. He received a 1991 Orange County Emerging Artist Grant and the university's 2000 Provost Public Service Award.

Source: UNC Libraries: Jeffery Beam Papers (#4888), 1968-2011

1953– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Jeffery Beam writes Song of the University Worker for the trustees Beam, then vice chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum, wrote the poem for the forum's presentation to the university's Board of Trustees on May 28, 1998. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum: Song of the University Worker
  2. Jeffery Beam receives a Provost's Public Service Award The UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Public Service gave Beam, assistant to the biology librarian in the Botany Library, a 2000 Office of the Provost Public Service Award. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Jeffery Beam Papers (#4888), Biographical information
  3. Jeffery Beam forms the Save the West House Coalition Beam, an assistant in the Couch Biology Library, organized faculty and town residents to keep West House, the 1935 house behind Hanes Art Center, from demolition for the planned Arts Common. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Hanes Art CenterSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 21, 2004, p. 3 (Employee mobilizes to preserve West House)
  4. UNC tears down West House for the Arts Common The university demolished West House after more than two years of effort by the Save the West House Coalition to keep or move it. The trustees had voted for demolition in September 2004, and the Council of State gave final approval in July 2006. People: James Moeser, Jeffery Beam Place: West House, near Hanes Art Center, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 22, 2006, p. 16 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 9, 2007, p. 3

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  • West House University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 2 events here

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