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Andy Griffith entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1944, starred in several Carolina Playmakers productions, was president of the Glee Club and graduated in 1949 with a degree in music. In 1972 he set up a scholarship fund for Carolina's dramatic art and music students, and in 2005 he gave his career memorabilia to Wilson Library.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: 225 years of Tar Heels: Andy Griffith
1926–2012 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
5 works about Andy Griffith are indexed here, as is one work by Griffith.
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Record album issued in 1978 on the Chapel Hill label Colonial, with songs about the University of North Carolina and about the football player Charlie Justice. Orville Campbell wrote the notes on the album cover and co-wrote several songs with Hank Beebe; Andy Griffith and Johnny Long also appear. The label number is EI-KB-1978 and the Colonial issue number 2890.
Andy Griffith, at left, in conversation with Orville Campbell at an unidentified UNC-Chapel Hill event, photographed by Hugh Morton on a color slide in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
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A documentary film about members of the University of North Carolina class of 1949, with graduates including Andy Griffith, Allard K. Lowenstein, Vic Seixas and John B. Swainson. Fifty two minutes, in English, credited to William Conrad and issued by Home Box Office. The Chapel Hill alumni are the subject throughout, and the film is dated 1966.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNCSA record: Griffith, Andy, 1926-.
Hugh Morton photograph of Andy Griffith delivering his comic monologue 'What It Was, Was Football' at Kenan Stadium on 25 September 1954, before UNC opened its football season against NC State. The day was also observed as Consolidated University Day.
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Andy Griffith performs his comedy monologue 'What It Was, Was Football' in Kenan Stadium on 25 September 1954, before UNC opened its season against NC State. The day was also Consolidated University Day. Hugh Morton made the 4 by 5 inch black-and-white negative. Griffith was a UNC graduate.
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Andy Griffith, a University of North Carolina graduate, in four photographs from 1948 to 1978: in 'The Lost Colony', giving a speech at Kenan, a headshot, and talking with students at Morehead Gallery on University Day. From the Artists binder, Chapel Hill Historical Society Prints and Photographs Collection.
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Picture: Andy Griffith, 2005. Public domain. Photograph by White House photo by Paul Morse; Whitehouse.gov (link); via Wikimedia Commons
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