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John Lindsay Morehead (1894–1964), a textile executive and cousin of John Motley Morehead III, ran the Morehead Foundation at the university in Chapel Hill as its principal officer from the late 1940s. UNC gave him an honorary doctor of laws in 1960 as the architect of the Morehead scholarship plan.
Source: NCpedia: Morehead, John Lindsay
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Short film from about 1956 to 1958 on the founding of the Morehead Awards, the merit scholarships for University of North Carolina students named for John Motley Morehead III and later renamed the Morehead-Cain program. Robert A. Fetzer and William C. Friday figure among the people shown. From the North Carolina Sights and Sounds collection.
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Fifteen linear feet of papers from John Motley Morehead III (1870-1965), approximately 8,000 items covering 1914 to 1988, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 70156. The papers concern the Morehead Planetarium, the John Motley Morehead Foundation, Union Carbide Corporation and buildings and structures in Chapel Hill.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Morehead, John Lindsay, 1884-1964.
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