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Vermont C. Royster

Vermont Royster, a 1935 UNC graduate who edited The Wall Street Journal from 1958 to 1971, returned to Chapel Hill in 1971 and taught journalism and political science at UNC until 1981. As a Kenan professor emeritus there he won his second Pulitzer Prize in 1984, for commentary.

Source: Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): UNC graduate Royster wins second Pulitzer (April 17, 1984)

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  1. Vermont Royster wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing Vermont C. Royster, a UNC graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for his regular editorials in The Wall Street Journal.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Pulitzer Prize Given To Two Ex-UNC Men (May 6, 1953)
  2. UNC announces Vermont Royster will join its faculty as Kenan professor of journalism and public affairs The university announced that Vermont C. Royster, retiring as editor of The Wall Street Journal, would join the UNC faculty the next September as Kenan professor of journalism and public affairs. He taught journalism and political science in Chapel Hill until 1981.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Vermont C. Royster to join UNC faculty (January 7, 1971)
  3. Vermont Royster is among the first inductees of UNC's North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame The UNC School of Journalism began its Journalism Hall of Fame in 1981, inducting Vermont Royster, former editor of The Wall Street Journal, with Pete McKnight and Charles Kuralt. People: Charles KuraltSearch the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Journalism Days article (April 10, 1987)
  4. Vermont Royster wins the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary Vermont Royster, Kenan professor emeritus in the UNC School of Journalism, won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary for his weekly Wall Street Journal column "Thinking Things Over." It was his second Pulitzer, thirty years after the first.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): UNC graduate Royster wins second Pulitzer (April 17, 1984)
  5. Vermont Royster receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom Vermont Royster, who had returned to UNC as a professor after retiring from The Wall Street Journal, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1986.Search the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Vermont Royster, Wall Street Journal Sage

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Norval Neil Luxon papers, circa 1930-1989.

Luxon, Norval Neil, 1899-1989 · 1930

Norval Neil Luxon (1899-1989) was a faculty member at Chapel Hill and Ohio State University, and his papers, circa 1930 to 1989, run to about 12,800 items in 15.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4585. Journalists fill the subject list, among them James Reston, Vermont Royster, Clifton Daniel, Gerald W. Johnson, Sam Ragan and Holt McPherson, with William C. Friday and Gail Godwin also named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Royster, Vermont, 1914-1996.

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Royster, Vermont C.: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Seven undated photographs of Vermont C. Royster, the Wall Street Journal editor who later taught journalism at UNC, several of them showing him seated for the camera in his office. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

Included because: Its title names this person.

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