Shelby Foote

Life and Orange County connections

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1. Fall 1935 Shelby Foote arrives in Chapel Hill to enroll at UNC Shelby Foote came to Chapel Hill in fall 1935 to register at UNC despite having been turned down, following his Greenville friends Walker and LeRoy Percy. He stayed two years and contributed nine stories to Carolina Magazine. People: Walker Percy Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: LeRoy PercySearch the index · Carolina Alumni: Shelby Foote '39, Noted Civil War Historian, Dies at 88
2. October 12, 1975 UNC gives Distinguished Alumnus Awards to Gordon Gray, Shelby Foote, Guy and Guion Johnson and Frank Borden Hanes At the University Day convocation in Memorial Hall, marking 182 years since the Old East cornerstone, UNC gave Distinguished Alumnus Awards to former University president Gordon Gray, novelist and historian Shelby Foote, the Chapel Hill sociologists Guy B. and Guion G. Johnson, and author Frank Borden Hanes. History professor William S. Powell spoke on past University Days. People: Gordon Gray, Shelby Foote, Guy Benton Johnson, Guion Griffis Johnson, William S. Powell, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank Borden HanesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1975, p. 1
3. 1992 Shelby Foote receives the Charles Frankel Prize The National Endowment for the Humanities gave Shelby Foote the Charles Frankel Prize, the award now called the National Humanities Medal, as novelist, historian and principal commentator of the PBS documentary The Civil War.Search the index · National Endowment for the Humanities: Charles Frankel Prize
4. 1992 UNC awards Shelby Foote an honorary Doctor of Letters UNC-Chapel Hill conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters on Shelby Foote, a UNC student from 1935 to 1937, for his fiction and his three-volume narrative history of the Civil War. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Faculty Governance: honorary degree citation, Shelby Dade Foote (1992)
5. October 26-28, 1993 Shelby Foote becomes UNC's first Morgan Family Writer-in-Residence Shelby Foote, who attended UNC in the 1930s, came to Chapel Hill in late October 1993 as the first writer in the new Morgan Family Writer-in-Residence Program, set up that fall with a $250,000 gift from Allen and Musette Morgan. He joined a Southern literature and history symposium in Wilson Library on October 26, spoke on "The Novelist as Historian" to about 900 people in Memorial Hall the next night, and was to meet creative writing students on October 28. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial Hall, Wilson LibrarySearch the index · Carolina Alumni: Shelby Foote '39, Noted Civil War Historian, Dies at 88 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 19, 1993, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, October 27, 1993, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, October 28, 1993, p. 1