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Douglass Hunt

1924–2011 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

4 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Douglass Hunt.

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By Douglass Hunt

A small price to pay : the pleasures of serendipity

Hunt, Douglass, 1924-2011 · 1988 · The author?

Douglass Hunt gave the 1988 Kemp Plummer Battle Lecture of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on University Day, 12 October 1988, and the text fills 26 leaves. The Mason family is among its topics.

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About Douglass Hunt

Selection Committee for the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women records, 1953-1995.

Selection Committee for the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 1953

Committee records documenting the North Carolina Distinguished Service Award for Women, 1953 to 1995, approximately 600 items in 1.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40192. The selection committee was based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Subjects include Katherine Kennedy Carmichael and Douglass Hunt, the Epsilon Beta chapter of Chi Omega, and Greek letter societies in Chapel Hill.

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Assistants to the Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : Douglass Hunt, 1900-2002 ( bulk 1980-2002).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Assistant to the Chancellor · 1900

Office files of Douglass Hunt (1924-2011), assistant to the chancellor at Chapel Hill, dated 1900 to 2002 with the bulk from 1980 onward, about 16,800 items in 21.5 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40209. Topics include Frank Porter Graham, Albert Coates and Allard Lowenstein, the C. Knox Massey awards, Carolina Seminars, student government, and state law and policy on higher education.

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Records of the Equal Opportunity/ADA Office, 1965-2006.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Equal Opportunity/ADA Office · 1965

Office records documenting equal opportunity and disability compliance work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1965 to 2006, about 48,000 items across 79.5 linear feet in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40029. Topics include affirmative action programs, discrimination in higher education, barrier free design, services for people with disabilities, and dealings with the federal Departments of Labor and of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration records, 1945-1990.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration · 1945

Administrative files covering 1945 to 1990 from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration at UNC, about 22,800 items in 28.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40301. Admissions and student recruiting in North Carolina, including the recruiting of minority college students, sit alongside scholarships, personnel management and university regulations, with the registrar's office and Douglass Hunt represented.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. North Carolina's first Boys State meets on the UNC campus The Institute ran the week-long civics program for the state American Legion, modeled on one begun in Illinois in 1935. About 135 high school boys spent up to three hours a day in class on government besides sports, heard Governor Hoey and other officials, and elected Douglass Hunt their governor. People: Albert Coates, Douglass Hunt, Clyde Roark HoeySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 186

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