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Frank H Kenan

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  1. The Kenan trust plans the $6.5 million Kenan Center and a private enterprise institute at UNC Frank H. Kenan, a trustee of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, said ground clearing would begin that month for the five-story, 60,000-square-foot William R. Kenan Jr. Center of North Carolina off Manning Drive near the Student Activities Center, due in early 1986, to house the Kenan Fund's offices and a new Institute for the Study of Private Enterprise supplementing the School of Business Administration. Dean John P. Evans said the institute would study starting, financing and growing smaller businesses. People: Frank H Kenan, John P. Evans Place: Manning Drive near the Student Activities Center, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William R. Kenan Jr. · Also mentions: School of Business Administration, Student Activities Center, Manning DriveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 1984, p. 1

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The Meaning of Honor

Ellis, Marion A. · 1994

Marion A. Ellis's biography of Frank Hawkins Kenan, the Chapel Hill businessman and philanthropist. Published in 1994, 143 pages with illustrations and portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Kenan, Frank H.

Duke NC Cardinal Durham Chapel Hill PL NCCU

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