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Leonard Victor "Vic" Huggins entered UNC in 1920, led its cheerleaders and is credited with creating the Rameses mascot. He and his wife Rebecca opened Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street in 1944 and ran it until 1968. He was president of the Merchants Association and the Chamber of Commerce and founded the Chapel Hill Rose Society.
Source: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Vic Huggins
On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Leonard Victor Huggins → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Vic Huggins posed at Huggins Hardware in an undated photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
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Portrait of Vic Huggins as a cheerleader at the University of North Carolina, undated. One print from the UNC Athletics binder in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection, CHHS.002.
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Picture: Vic Huggins, Yackety Yack, 1925. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1925 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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