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Walter Spearman, editor of the Daily Tar Heel as a UNC student, taught journalism at the university in Chapel Hill from 1935 until he retired. He wrote The Carolina Playmakers: The First Fifty Years (1970), kept up his book column "The Literary Lantern" from 1947, and died in Chapel Hill in 1987.
Source: UNC Libraries: Walter Spearman Papers, 1900-1986
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An award notice from 1971 honoring Walter Spearman for twenty five years as faculty advisor to Alpha Sigma, the Chi Psi chapter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A citation on page three credits his service as advisor and his devotion to the ideals of the fraternity.
Civil rights work fills the John B. Dunne papers, dated 1958 to 1965 and 1983 to 1984, five hundred items in half a linear foot, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4391. Topics include civil disobedience and the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill and in Alabama, the political activity of college students at the university, and the Choate School, with John Ehle and Walter Spearman named.
Papers of Walter Spearman, a teacher of journalism at Chapel Hill, spanning 1900 to 1986 in 2,400 items and 3.5 linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4484. Topics include journalism education in North Carolina, American authors of the state, and named writers Spearman knew or taught, among them Charles Kuralt, Paul Green, Jonathan Daniels and Gail Godwin.
Walter Spearman, the University of North Carolina journalism professor, is the subject of a report in this folder. Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection, Individuals and Families series, box 8. Undated.
Tribute volume published by the UNC School of Journalism in 1987, gathering remembrances of Walter Spearman, the longtime journalism professor at Chapel Hill.
Walter Spearman in three undated photographs: a portrait, a view of him at his desk with students, and a conversation with the writer Frances Gray Patton and Howard Richardson. From the UNC Faculty and Administration binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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Picture: Walter Spearman, Yackety Yack, 1929. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1929 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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