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A. C. (Almonte Charles) Howell taught English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1920 to 1968, specializing in seventeenth-century English literature, and was the university's first secretary of the faculty, from 1925 to 1945.
Source: UNC Libraries: A. C. Howell Papers, circa 1945-1967 (#4465)
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1895–1986 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Almonte Charles Howell (1895 to 1986) taught in the Department of English at Chapel Hill and served as Secretary of the Faculty. His papers, dated about 1945 to 1967, are collection 4465 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, with material on the teaching of English in North Carolina and Frank Porter Graham (1886 to 1972).
A. C. Howell gave the Phi Beta Kappa initiation address to the Alpha Chapter of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 5, 1970. The chapter printed his remarks as a twenty page pamphlet.
Fifty one photographs gathered by the music teacher Adeline McCall (1900-1989), spanning 1908 through the 1950s with most images from the 1940s and 1950s, in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Orange County Training School and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, school music instruction, African American children, the North Carolina Symphony, and portraits of Leonard Bernstein and A. C. Howell.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Howell, A. C. (Almonte Charles), 1895-1986.
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