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Doris Betts

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  1. About 300 people rally on campus against anti-gay hate mail sent to university faculty A rally and candlelight vigil on the UNC campus, held after a Holly Near concert, protested two pre-election mailings: one from a group calling itself Triangle Educators for Christ, and one signed Southern Christians for Helms that threatened to publish a list of supposedly gay faculty. UNC President William Friday had denounced the second letter at the Board of Governors' October 19 meeting and turned it over to the State Bureau of Investigation, and Faculty Council chair Doris Betts also denounced the letters. People: William C. Friday, Doris BettsSearch the index · Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), November 1984, p. 14

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By Doris Betts

The sharp teeth of love : a novel

Betts, Doris · 1998 · Scribner Paperback Fiction

Doris Betts set this novel between Chapel Hill and Reno, Nevada, following a young woman and a kidnapping, in a work of romantic suspense. Scribner Paperback Fiction published the edition described in 1998, 336 pages. Love stories and young women are the other subjects listed.

Luke

Betts, Doris · 2003

Doris Betts writing on the Gospel of Luke, a nine page contribution running from page 218 to 226 in a larger 2003 volume. Topics include the Bible, the book of Luke and Luke the evangelist, and they also file the piece with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

UNC

Opening statement

Betts, Doris · 1993

Novelist Doris Betts opened the Autumn Sunday Symposium at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in Chapel Hill on October 10, 1993, a program on the arts, the humanities, the university and public culture. Her remarks survive as an eleven leaf transcript.

UNC

Testifying to the best in teaching and learning

Betts, Doris; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. College of Arts and Sciences · 1991 · College of Arts & Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Doris Betts wrote the text of this 1991 publication of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a limited edition of 1500 copies signed by the author. An occasional college publication on teaching and learning.

UNC

The lame duck's swan song : (sorry, Longfellow!)

Betts, Doris · 1985 · D.W. Betts, Chairman of the Faculty

A poem by Doris Betts, then chairman of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sent to colleagues in 1985 as a memorandum and an invitation to the commencement ceremony of 12 May that year. Printed on a single unnumbered leaf, 28 centimeters. The title adds a parenthetical apology to Longfellow.

UNC

Come to the party!

Betts, Doris · 1983 · D.W. Betts, Chairman of the Faculty

A single leaf poem printed at Chapel Hill in 1983 by Doris Betts as chair of the faculty, inviting University of North Carolina faculty to a party marking the institution's 190th birthday on 12 October that year. Topics include North Carolina poetry and the university's anniversaries and celebrations. It sits in UNC's North Carolina Collection.

UNC

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About Doris Betts

My Love Affair with Carolina

Betts, Doris Waugh · 1998

Novelist Doris Betts's talk 'My Love Affair with Carolina', printed in 1998 by the North Caroliniana Society with tributes to her by Elizabeth Evans, Lewellyn Betts and Max Steele. The pieces come from the banquet of 12 June 1998 at which she accepted the Society's award for that year. A limited edition of 500.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Betts, Doris -- Appreciation -- North Carolina.

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