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Elizabeth Gray Vining, known in Chapel Hill as Betty Gray, worked on the University library staff in the 1920s and wrote several books here as Elizabeth Janet Gray. She married Morgan Vining of the University Extension division in Chapel Hill, and later became tutor to Japan's Crown Prince Akihito.
Source: DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 29, 1947, page 4
1902–1999 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Elizabeth Gray Vining, the author who tutored Japan's Crown Prince Akihito after the Second World War, is the subject of photocopied newspaper articles and notes. Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection, Individuals and Families series, box 8. Undated.
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Picture: Elizabeth Gray Vining, photograph, 1949. Public domain. Asahi Shimbun photograph; via Wikimedia Commons
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