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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.
1925–2009 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
9 works about Roland Giduz are indexed here.
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Half hour television program from the Almanac series hosted by Roland Giduz, filmed in September 1997 at Kenan Memorial Stadium on the University of North Carolina campus. Topics include the stadium itself and Carolina football. One videocassette in color with sound, running thirty minutes, from a local broadcaster who reported on Chapel Hill for decades.
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Roland Giduz's newspaper columns from 1953 to 1982, bound in fifteen illustrated volumes. Most ran as Newsman's Notepad, in papers that included the Chapel Hill Weekly, the News of Orange County, the Chapel Hill News Leader and the Chapel Hill Newspaper. The North Carolina Collection made the copies from Giduz's own clipping file in spring 1997; an index is cataloged separately.
Included because: Its title names this person.
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.
Included because: Its title names this person.
Records of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about 1,600 items in two linear feet covering 1968 to 2022, in the University Archives at UNC, 40280. Oral histories make up much of the material, and subjects include the school's curricula, faculty and students, with William C. Friday, Roland Giduz, Karen L. Parker and Edwin M. Yoder among the figures recorded.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Photograph of a Chapel Hill newspaper's staff in 1954: Phillips Russell as editor, Edwin J. Hamlin running the business side, L.M. Pollander in charge of advertising and Roland Giduz as news director. The paper's name is uncertain, News Leader or possibly Ledger.
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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: Their name appears in the record.
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: Listed as its creator.
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. Topics include politics and government in Chapel Hill, community life in the town and its social customs, the Chapel Hill Rotary Club, and the Occoneechee Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
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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 Carolina Cable in 1990, one videocassette running 27 minutes in color.
Included because: Its title names this person.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
Roland Giduz, a Chapel Hill newsman, gathers anecdotes and humor about the town from 1950 to 1985 in this 1985 book, subtitled Chapel Hill uncovered and featuring the newsman's notepad. Illustrated, with an index. Part of the Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection.
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Picture: Roland Giduz, Yackety Yack, 1948. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1948 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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