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Zora Rashkis taught English at Phillips and Culbreth middle schools in Chapel Hill and started the weekly "Meet the Teacher" Cablevision program, which she hosted for 22 years. In 2003 the school board named its newest school Mel and Zora Rashkis Elementary for the couple's work with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools since 1962.
Source: DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 2003, p. 6 (District dedicates its newest school)
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Oral history recorded in 2002 with Mel and Zora Rashkis, interviewed by Doug Eyre with Eunice Brock present. Mel describes his career in real estate and Zora her career in education. Cassette in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
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