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Roland Giduz

Roland Giduz, a 1948 UNC journalism graduate, worked for newspapers in Chapel Hill and Durham, edited The Chapel Hill News Leader and The News of Orange County, and served on Chapel Hill's Board of Aldermen. He managed the UNC Alumni Review from 1966, and his roughly 18,900 negatives from about 1948 to 1970 record Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the campus.

Source: UNC Libraries, Wilson Special Collections Library: Roland Giduz Photographic Collection, 1947-1970 (P0033)

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Collected columns of Roland Giduz, 1953-1982.

Giduz, Roland · 1997 · North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

… Fifteen volumes of newspaper columns by Roland Giduz, written between 1953 and 1982 and published chiefly as Newsman's Notepad in the Chapel Hill Weekly, the Chapel Hill News Leader, the News of Orange County and the Chapel Hill Newspaper.

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Index to Roland Giduz's column in the Chapel Hill weekly and the Chapel Hill newspaper.

Giduz, Roland · 1996 · North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Index to the newspaper column Roland Giduz wrote for the Chapel Hill Weekly and the Chapel Hill Newspaper, printed on paper in June 1996 from his own card file by the North Carolina Collection. One unpaged volume, refer…

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Hussman School of Journalism and Media of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1968-2022

Hussman School of Journalism and Media · 1968

… Friday, Roland Giduz, Karen L.

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Chapel Hill News Leader [Ledger?]: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1954

1 photograph in the Society's Businesses A-L binder: Editor Phillips Russell, Business Manager Edwin J. Hamlin, Advertising Manager L.M. Pollander, News Director Roland Giduz.

Francis Lavergne Johnson photographic collection, 1948-1971.

Johnson, Francis Lavergne, 1901-1971 · 1948

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 the heading…

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Roland Giduz photographic collection, 1947-1970.

Giduz, Roland · 1947

Photographs made by Roland Giduz between 1947 and 1970, about 19,000 items across eleven linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. The headings cover university buildings, commencements, drama productions, fa…

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Roland Giduz papers, 1880s-1980s.

Giduz, Roland · 1884

Roland Giduz's papers carry dates from the 1880s to the 1980s and total 3,000 items in six linear feet, Southern Historical Collection 4601. Headings cover politics and government in Chapel Hill, community life in the t…

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H.G. Jones, interviewed by Roland Giduz on "Chapel Hill Almanac".

1990 · Carolina Cable

An episode of the local cable program 'Chapel Hill Almanac' in which Roland Giduz interviews H. G. Jones, the historian long associated with the North Carolina Collection at the UNC Chapel Hill library. Recorded for Car…

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. Roland Giduz and Adelaide Walters are elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen In a heavy turnout that also re-elected Mayor Oliver K. Cornwell and approved a $500,000 bond issue, voters re-elected aldermen Hubert Robinson and Paul Wager …Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1957, page 1 (Heavy Vote Approves Bond Issue and Ten Candidates for Office)
  2. Sandy McClamroch is elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen McClamroch, one of five candidates for three seats, was elected on May 5, 1959 with F. E. Strowd and Roland Giduz, and was sworn in with Mayor Oliver K. Cornwe… People: Oliver K. Cornwell, Roland GiduzSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 14, 1959, page 1 (Newly Elected Town Officers Are Installed)

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