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Carmichael graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1921 and returned to Chapel Hill in 1940 as finance officer of the consolidated university, later comptroller and vice-president. He raised money for the four-year teaching hospital at Chapel Hill, helped administer the Morehead Planetarium gift, and was acting president in 1949 and 1950.
Source: NCpedia: Carmichael, William Donald, Jr.
Also found in catalogs as William Donald Carmichael.
1900–1961 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
8 works about William D. Carmichael Jr. are indexed here, as is one work by Carmichael.
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William Donald Carmichael, Jr. reported to the governor and to the trustees of the University of North Carolina in May 1946 on the veterans then arriving at Chapel Hill under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, the law known as the G.I. Bill. Printed at Chapel Hill by the university.
Letters of 1959 to Duke vice president Paul M. Gross from William M. Whyburn of the University of North Carolina and others, on the Governor's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Energy. Included are a draft act on ionizing radiation, radiation machines, radioactive materials and atomic energy, and papers on a Southern interstate nuclear effort. Luther Hodges, Dean W. Colvard and J. W. Roy Norton are among those named. 36 images.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Carmichael, William Donald, Jr., 1900-1961.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Paul M. Gross, vice president of Duke University, exchanged these letters from 1956 to 1958 about a North Carolina Atomic Energy Commission. With them are a report to the Governor's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Energy and proposed state legislation on radioactive materials. Governor Luther Hodges and William D. Carmichael Jr. of the University of North Carolina are among the names involved. 34 images.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Carmichael, William Donald, Jr., 1900-1961.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Group on a tennis court, probably in Chapel Hill, in the early 1950s. From left: Charlie 'Choo Choo' Justice, the UNC football star, with Orville Campbell, Bob Cox and William D. Carmichael Jr. Hugh Morton photograph on black-and-white sheet film.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Carmichael, William Donald, 1900-1961.
About 1,860 photographs made by Francis Lavergne Johnson (1901-1971) between 1948 and 1971, 1.8 linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Johnson photographed university faculty and employees, and subjects include William Aycock, Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, Albert Coates, Paul Green, Charlie Justice, Josephina Niggli and Louis Round Wilson among those who worked at Chapel Hill in those years.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Carmichael, William Donald, Jr., 1900-1961.
Photographs made by Roland Giduz between 1947 and 1970, about 19,000 items across eleven linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Topics include university buildings, commencements, drama productions, faculty and alumni, and baseball, basketball and football, along with the Carolina Inn and Kenan Memorial Stadium, and named figures including Frank Porter Graham, Gordon Gray and John F. Kennedy.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Carmichael, William Donald, Jr., 1900-1961.
Hugh Morton's photograph of William D. 'Billy' Carmichael, the University of North Carolina's comptroller, at a banquet tied to UNC-Chapel Hill. Taken in the 1940s or early 1950s on 4 x 5 inch sheet film.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Carmichael, William Donald, 1900-1961.
Financial and administrative files from the Office of the Vice President for Finance of the University of North Carolina System, 1923 to 1972 with most material from 1940 to 1960. About 24,000 items fill thirty linear feet in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40011. Subjects include William Donald Carmichael Jr., campus buildings and facilities planning, system finance, and the Second World War.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Carmichael, William Donald, Jr., 1900-1961.
William Donald Carmichael Auditorium on the UNC campus in an undated exterior photograph, from the UNC Campus binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
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Picture: William D. Carmichael Jr., Yackety Yack, 1921. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1921 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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