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University YMCA

The University YMCA was the student Young Men's Christian Association at Chapel Hill, which met in its own hall in South Building by 1884 and dedicated its own campus building on June 2, 1907. About 1911 its students, under Frank Porter Graham, taught night classes to the young Black men who worked in the dormitories.

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Books, articles, records, and images about University YMCA. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.

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Oral history interview with Anne Queen, April 30, 1976 interview G-0049-1, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Queen, Anne · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Anne Queen (1911-2005), director of the Campus Y at UNC, interviewed by Joseph Herzenberg on April 30, 1976 for the Southern Oral History Program. Queen grew up in Canton, North Carolina, in a working family, finished school in 1930 and spent ten years with Champion Paper and Fibre, where she came to identify with the New Deal Democrats and took an interest in labor. She also discusses Berea College, Yale Divinity School, and student political activity and civil rights work at Chapel Hill. Two hours thirty-eight minutes.

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Oral history interview with Anne Queen, November 22, 1976: interview G-0049-2, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Queen, Anne · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Second of two Southern Oral History Program interviews with Anne Queen (1911-2005), who came to Chapel Hill after years as an industrial worker and went on to direct the Campus YWCA-YMCA, a center of student activism. Recorded November 22, 1976, by Joseph Herzenberg, this hour-long conversation covers how Queen saw politics in the South and the nation change through the mid-twentieth century, and student political activity at UNC. Published online in 2007 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, November 19, 1990: interview L-0048, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Law professor Daniel H. Pollitt remembers Anne Queen (1911-2005), director of UNC's Campus Y, in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded November 19, 1990, by Cindy Cheatham. Queen's commitment to social justice matched Pollitt's own work for racial equality and support of student activists, and he describes her Campus Y as the place where students concerned with civil rights in segregated Chapel Hill gathered and learned to organize. Published online in 2007 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with William C. Friday, December 18, 1990: interview L-0049, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Friday, William C. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

William C. Friday, UNC system president from 1957 until 1986, was interviewed by Cindy Cheatham in December 1990 about Anne Queen (1911-2005). Queen came to the campus YWCA as associate director in 1956 and led the merged YMCA-YWCA from 1964 to 1975. Friday recalls working with her through the years of student political activity in Chapel Hill and reflects on the place of the Y in university life. About forty minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2007, through Documenting the American South.

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Carolina change-makers : celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Campus Y : the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 15-17, 2010.

2010 · Campus Y, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Program book for the celebration of the Campus Y's one hundred fiftieth anniversary at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, held October 15 to 17, 2010. Thirty four pages, illustrated largely in color, with a Campus Y history timeline on pages 24 and 25. Topics include the Campus Y and its history, the student service organization founded in 1860.

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Queen of the hill : Anne Queen and her legacy to the spirit and people of Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina, and the Campus Y

Perkins, Julia Elizabeth · 1996

Anne Queen, 1911 to 2005, is the subject of Julia Elizabeth Perkins's 1996 paper on her place in the life of Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina and the Campus Y. Seventy-seven pages plus three unnumbered leaves, with a bibliography.

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Environmental education for kids (EEK) : the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

1992 · YMCA of the USA

An account of Environmental education for kids, the EEK program run by the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It appeared in 1992 as pages 35 to 43 of a publication of the YMCA of the USA in Champaign, Illinois.

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[Reports on the history of the University of North Carolina YMCA-YWCA].

1960 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill YMCA-YWCA

Reports on the history of the YMCA and YWCA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the organization in 1960 and surviving as leaves 4 through 21 of a typescript. Subjects include the campus YMCA-YWCA and its history, making it source material on student religious and service life at Carolina.

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UNC-Chapel Hill student campaigning

Morton, Hugh M. · 1942

The YMCA Building at UNC-Chapel Hill hung with banners for student government candidates, with students and bicycles out front, about April 1942 when the spring elections took place. Hugh Morton photograph; a different view of the same banners ran in the 1943 Yackety Yack.

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UNC-Chapel Hill student elections

Morton, Hugh M. · 1942

Campaign banners for student government elections cover the YMCA Building at UNC-Chapel Hill about April 1942, with bicycles and students in front. Hugh Morton's photograph appeared, cropped, in the 1943 Yackety Yack yearbook.

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Students in front of YMCA Building, circa March 1942

Morton, Hugh M. · 1941

Crowd of students, men and women, gathered in front of the YMCA building on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill. Hugh Morton took the photograph about 1941 to 1942, probably in March 1942. Black-and-white sheet film negative.

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UNC-Chapel Hill student life, 1939-1942, P081

Morton, Hugh M. · 1939

Hugh Morton photograph of young men, probably UNC students, standing in front of the YMCA building on the Chapel Hill campus, 1939 to 1942. Black-and-white sheet film negative.

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Anne Queen papers, 1930-1985.

Queen, Anne, 1911-2005 · 1930

Anne Queen (1911-2005) was a university employee connected with the Campus Y and the YMCA-YWCA at Chapel Hill. Her papers, 1930 to 1985, amount to some 17,200 items in 26 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5214. Political cartoons are among the genres. Topics include the American Friends Service Committee, the Speaker Ban Law, Yale Divinity School, William C. Friday, Terry Sanford, Allard Lowenstein and John Ehle.

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Explain two plans for teaching Bible in university : University Y.M.C.A. has definite program if churches cannot unite

Madry, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1897-1955 · 1924 · University News Bureau

Robert W. Madry wrote this 1924 release for the University News Bureau on two proposals for teaching the Bible at the university, with the student Y.M.C.A. prepared to run its own program if the Chapel Hill churches could not agree on a joint one. Marked for release on Sunday, May 25. Topics include religious education in Chapel Hill and the curricula of the university.

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Y.M.C.A., University of N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C.

1915 · Sutton's, Chapel Hill, N.C

Ivy-covered YMCA building on the University of North Carolina campus, with cars parked out front, on a postcard of about 1915 published by Sutton and Alderman, druggists of Chapel Hill. Card number 104605.

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University Y.M.C.A. Chapel Hill, N.C.

1910 · Holladay Studio, Durham, N.C

University YMCA building at the University of North Carolina on a 1910 postcard from the Holladay Studio of Durham. Ida E. Raney wrote on both sides, recalling a good evening spent in the building and describing the fun of the days after commencement.

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Y.M.C.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1906

The YMCA building at the University of North Carolina appears on this real photo postcard from November 1906. The writer calls it the house the boys built, finished except for heating and chapel furniture, and addressed the card to Miss Etta Shaffner of Winston-Salem.

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A centre of college life

Gore, J. W. (Joshua Walker), 1852-1908; Patterson, W. T. · 1904

An appeal printed at Chapel Hill in 1904 for the building fund of the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina, with inquiries directed to Professor J. W. Gore and checks payable to Major W. T. Patterson. Topics include college buildings in Chapel Hill and the YMCA in the state, placing the leaflet with the campaign for that building.

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The place of the Young Men's Christian Association in the University

Harper, Ralph M. (Ralph Moore), 1882- · 1904

Ralph Moore Harper's 1904 thesis on the place of the Young Men's Christian Association in the University of North Carolina. Topics include the religious life of college students at Chapel Hill and the campus association itself.

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University of North Carolina : proposed Y.M.C.A. building, designed by F.P. Milburn, Charlotte, N.C. : to be erected on the university campus

Osborne, F. M. (Francis Moore), 1879-1956 · 1903

F. M. Osborne, president of the association, signed this 1903 appeal for a proposed Young Men's Christian Association building at the University of North Carolina, designed by F. P. Milburn of Charlotte and to be erected on the campus. Topics include college buildings in Chapel Hill and the YMCA in North Carolina. Printed at Chapel Hill.

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The Y.M.C.A. in the university

Osborne, F. M. (Francis Moore), 1879-1956 · 1900 · University Magazine

Francis Moore Osborne on the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina, detached from the University of North Carolina magazine for March 1900 and printed at Chapel Hill. Topics include college buildings and planning at Chapel Hill as well as the association, so the article takes in the campus quarters along with the work of the organization.

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Y.M.C.A., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C.

The university YMCA building at Chapel Hill, on a card produced by the Albertype Company of Brooklyn.

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YMCA: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

The YMCA building on the UNC campus in four undated photographs, including students walking past, a front view and a view from the street. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).

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Constitution and by-laws of the Young Men's Christian Association, of the University of North Carolina with a list of officers, committees, &c., First session, 1860.

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 2005 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Constitution and by-laws of the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina, printed for its first session in 1860 with a list of officers and committees. The electronic edition of 2005 comes from the university library's Documenting the American South project, within its collection on the first century of the first state university.

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The Carolina handbook.

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1964 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Student handbook published by the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, recorded here for 1964. Volumes carry illustrations, portraits and maps, with advertisements counted in the pagination, and the issue for 1947 to 1948 lacks a title. Topics include student life and student religious life in Chapel Hill. Sizes range from 13 to 23 cm.

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The activist : Campus Y membership newsletter

Campus Y (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 2004 · The Campus Y

Membership newsletter of the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the Campus Y from 2004 in volumes with illustrations, 28 cm. Topics include the Campus Y and student periodicals in Chapel Hill, so the issues carry news for the students who belonged to the organization.

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All' arte

Campus Y (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 1988 · University of North Carolina, Campus Y

A literary and arts magazine published in 1988 by the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gathering prose, poetry, artwork and articles from university students and from local residents. A statement on page 2 says the magazine grew from a wish to promote the arts at the university and in the surrounding area.

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Freshman camp.

1974 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Printed matter from the freshman camp held for entering students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the university in volumes with illustrations and recorded here from 1974. The camp was connected with the Campus Y. Each volume measures twenty-two centimeters.

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YMCA-YWCA, UNC Chapel Hill ... academic year annual report.

YMCA-YWCA (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 1974 · YMCA-YWCA

Annual reports of the combined YMCA and YWCA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the organization in Chapel Hill for each academic year from 1974. The reports document the programs the campus Y ran and the students who took part in them.

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Forever morning

1970 · University of North Carolina YMCA-YWCA Press

Poems written between February and June of 1970 by members of the advanced poetry writing class at Chapel Hill, gathered with a foreword by Carolyn Kizer and published by the University of North Carolina YMCA-YWCA Press. A collection of student poetry written at Chapel Hill during one spring.

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Chapel Hill streets & res. numbers.

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1966 · YMCA

Street and residence number lists for Chapel Hill, compiled by the University of North Carolina YMCA and issued with a map in large format volumes. The 1966 volume is recorded here. Topics include streets and directories in the town. Address lists like these let a researcher match a family to a house and follow who lived where from one year to the next.

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Directory, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill : alphabetical directory of students--faculty--administrative and clerical staffs.

1957 · University YMCA

An alphabetical directory of students, faculty and administrative and clerical staff at the University of North Carolina, published at Chapel Hill by the University YMCA, fifteen volumes with the 1957 issue among them. The title varies slightly from year to year.

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University of North Carolina and city of Chapel Hill directory : listing students, faculty, administrative and clerical staffs, and townspeople.

1942 · University Y.M.C.A.

Combined university and town directory for 1942, listing students, faculty, administrative and clerical staff alongside the townspeople of Chapel Hill. Published by the University YMCA in two volumes. Topics include university directories and town directories together, and the joint arrangement puts campus and town residents in one book for the year.

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[Miscellaneous periodicals of the University of North Carolina YMCA, YWCA and Campus Y]

1941

A gathered set of newsletters from the YMCA and YWCA at the University of North Carolina and, from the 1970s onward, from the Campus Y that followed them, running from the 1940s to 1999. Many of the titles survive in a single issue only. Items measuring 28 to 40 cm.

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Directory of students, faculty, administrative and clerical force of the University of North Carolina and city directory of Chapel Hill.

1932 · University Y.M.C.A.

For 1932, the University YMCA published this list of students, faculty and the administrative and clerical force of the University of North Carolina together with a city directory of Chapel Hill. Four volumes are recorded, with the title varying slightly from year to year. Topics include university and town directories, and the lists remain a good way to place a person in Chapel Hill in a given year.

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That "Y" minstrel

1924 · YMCA, University of North Carolina

A printed program for a minstrel show staged in 1924 by the YMCA at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. It concerns minstrel shows in North Carolina, and it survives as a record of the kind of entertainment campus organizations mounted in the 1920s, useful to anyone studying student life and popular amusement in the town.

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Topics for discussion

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1903 · The Young Men's Christian Association

An outline of the guest speakers and their topics for the fall and spring terms, issued in 1903 by the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina. Printed at Chapel Hill, it lists the addresses the association sponsored for students that year.

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Ye rolle of persons and partes [of] ye sightes, revelles, and worldlye musick cunnningly [sic] pleyed on sagbuttes, spinnettes, and all stringed instruments : to be attended at ye Muscle Growing House yclept ye gymnasium of ye Vnuefitie Borealis Caroliniensis on ye night of ye 22d day of April, in ye year of oure lorde, MDCCCXC

Martin, Edwin Wray, -1896; Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1890

A program for an evening of music and entertainment at the university gymnasium in Chapel Hill on 22 April 1890, its title set in mock archaic spelling and printed on wrapping paper. The show raised money for the campus Young Men's Christian Association, and authorship is attributed to E.W. Martin of the class of 1891. Subjects include college theater and amusements at Chapel Hill.

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The arc : student voices on social justice : zine.

Campus Y, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Small zine from the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gathering posts from the Campus Y blog of the same name into print. Student writing on social justice. Volumes with color illustrations, standing only 14 cm tall.

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Talking sidewalks : voices of poverty and homelessness in Chapel Hill

Campus Y (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication (Organization) · Campus Y, UNC-Chapel Hill and HOPE

Poetry and prose about poverty and homelessness in Chapel Hill, written by people living through it and gathered by the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina together with Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication. Homeless persons and poverty in Chapel Hill are its subjects, along with North Carolina poetry.

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Unity

Campus Y (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · CampusY

Student publication of the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published in Chapel Hill under the Y's imprint. It is grouped with college student newspapers and periodicals in Chapel Hill and with the Campus Y itself. Volumes with illustrations, 28 cm.

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The Carolina Handbook [1951-1952]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1951 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Issued for the 1951 to 1952 year, this Carolina handbook came from the university Young Men's Christian Association in Chapel Hill. The work describes handbooks and manuals for students, student religious life and life at the University of North Carolina, with Orange County named. The volume belongs to DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1950-1951]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1950 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Published by the university YMCA at Chapel Hill, this student handbook covers the 1950-1951 year at the University of North Carolina. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. Orange County is named as the place. It sits in DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1949-1950]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1949 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

A student handbook for 1949 to 1950, published in Chapel Hill by the Young Men's Christian Association of the University of North Carolina. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. It sits in the North Carolina Yearbooks collection at DigitalNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1948-1949]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1948 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

The Carolina Handbook for 1948-1949, published by the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. Part of DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1947-1948]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1947 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

The Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina published this Carolina handbook for 1947 to 1948 in Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. The volume belongs to DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1946-1947]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1946 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

A student handbook for 1946-1947 from the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina, printed in Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. One issue in DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1943-1944]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1943 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Handbook for University of North Carolina students covering 1943 to 1944, published at Chapel Hill by the campus Young Men's Christian Association. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. Part of the North Carolina Yearbooks collection at DigitalNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1942-1943]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1942 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

The 1942-1943 'Carolina Handbook', published in Chapel Hill by the university's Young Men's Christian Association. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. In DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1941-1942]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1941 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

For the 1941-1942 year the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina published this handbook for students in Chapel Hill. The work describes handbooks and manuals for students, student religious life, and campus student life. The volume sits in DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, sourced from the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1940-1941]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1940 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

For the 1940-1941 year, the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina published this handbook for students at Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. In the North Carolina Yearbooks collection at DigitalNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1939-1940]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1939 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Issued for the 1939-1940 school year, this edition of 'The Carolina Handbook' came from the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. Part of DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, by way of the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1938-1939]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1938 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Student handbook for the 1938 to 1939 session at the University of North Carolina, published in Chapel Hill by the Young Men's Christian Association. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. It appears among DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks, from UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1937-1938]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1937 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

This handbook was meant for University of North Carolina students in 1937-1938 and came from the campus Young Men's Christian Association at Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. Filed in DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1936-1937]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1936 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Student handbook for the 1936-1937 session at the University of North Carolina, issued by the university's Young Men's Christian Association in Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. It belongs to DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1935-1936]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1935 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

The Carolina Handbook for 1935-1936, published at Chapel Hill by the Young Men's Christian Association of the University of North Carolina. The work describes a handbook for students, covering student life and student religious life at the university. Orange County is the place around the campus. From DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1934-1935]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1934 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

The Carolina Handbook for 1934-1935, a guide to student life and religious life at the University of North Carolina. Published in Chapel Hill by the campus Young Men's Christian Association. Part of DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1933-1934]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1933 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Covering 1933 to 1934, this Carolina handbook was published by the Young Men's Christian Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. Part of DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1932-1933]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1932 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Issued in Chapel Hill by the University of North Carolina's Young Men's Christian Association, this handbook served students through the 1932-1933 year. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. From the North Carolina Yearbooks collection at DigitalNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1931-1932]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1931 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

The student handbook for 1931-1932, published at Chapel Hill by the Young Men's Christian Association of the University of North Carolina. The work describes handbooks and manuals for students, student religious life in Chapel Hill, and university student life. Grouped with DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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The Carolina Handbook [1930-1931]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1930 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Carolina's YMCA produced this handbook for the 1930-1931 session at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. Part of DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1929-1930]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1929 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Student handbook for the 1929 to 1930 year at the University of North Carolina, issued in Chapel Hill by the university's Young Men's Christian Association. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. It appears in DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1928-1929]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1928 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

A handbook for students issued by the University of North Carolina's Young Men's Christian Association for 1928-1929 and printed in Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. It is part of DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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The Carolina Handbook [1927-1928]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1927 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

The university Young Men's Christian Association at Chapel Hill brought out this Carolina handbook for 1927 to 1928. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. One of DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks records.

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The Carolina Handbook [1926-1927]

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1926 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Students at the University of North Carolina received 'The Carolina Handbook' for 1926-1927 from the campus Young Men's Christian Association, which published it in Chapel Hill. The handbook covers student life, including religious life on campus. It belongs to DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection, from the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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Student self-help at the University of North Carolina

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1923

Booklet on student self-help at the University of North Carolina, published at Chapel Hill by the Self-help Department of the campus Young Men's Christian Association. The catalog dates it 1923 while a note on the item reads January 1927. Topics include students, student employment at Chapel Hill and employment at the university.

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Student directory

1974 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Annual list of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, compiled by the YMCA Information Office and published by the campus Young Men's Christian Association in 1974. The serial is a directory of college students at Chapel Hill. Directories like this one are a standing source for tracing who was enrolled in a given year.

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The bus

1969 · University of North Carolina, YMCA-YWCA Press

Student literary publication printed in 1969 by the YMCA-YWCA Press at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, gathering poetry and short stories by students. The cataloger took both title and imprint from the final page of the text, which points to an informally produced pamphlet.

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Directory : students, faculty, administration, clerical staff

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)); University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1962 · University Young Men's Christian Association

Campus directory for 1962 listing students, faculty, administration and clerical staff at the University of North Carolina, compiled and published by the University YMCA in Chapel Hill. Subjects include telephone directories for the university, so the volume doubles as a name and number list for the whole campus that year.

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The X-Hi-Y

1962 · Freshman Friendship Council, Y.M.C.A, University of North Carolina

Student periodical published in Chapel Hill in 1962 by the Freshman Friendship Council of the University YMCA at the University of North Carolina. It concerns college student newspapers and periodicals, and it comes from the campus Christian association work aimed at first year men.

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Student directory

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)); University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1928 · Young Men's Christian Association

Student directory for the University of North Carolina, compiled for 1928 by the campus Young Men's Christian Association and printed at Chapel Hill. Topics include directories of the university and of its students, so the booklet functions as a listing of those enrolled for the session rather than an account of the year's events.

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The handbook of the University of North Carolina

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1924 · Young Men's Christian Association

The student handbook issued by the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina, a serial guide to campus life for students, with advertisements included in the pagination. Both the title and the imprint vary between issues. Topics include students' handbooks in Chapel Hill, the religious life of students and university student life. This issue is dated 1924.

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Students' hand book

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1907 · Young Men's Christian Association, University of North Carolina

Handbook for students at the University of North Carolina issued by the campus Young Men's Christian Association in 1907, with advertisements counted in the pagination. Topics include student life, the religious life of students at Chapel Hill and a directory of the faculty, so the booklet works as a guide to the session as well as a campus list.

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The University of North Carolina college directory

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)); University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1906 · Compliments of the Young Men's Christian Association

A directory of the University of North Carolina compiled by the campus Young Men's Christian Association and handed out with its compliments at Chapel Hill in 1906. It concerns universities and colleges directories and the university's students, so the value of it now is the list of who was on campus in that session.

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Association hymn book : for use in meetings for men

Young Men's Christian Associations of North America. International Committee; Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1904 · Biglow & Main

Hymn book for use in meetings for men, issued by the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America and printed in New York by Biglow and Main in 1904. The campus association at the University of North Carolina is also credited. Topics include English hymns and students' songs at Chapel Hill.

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Hand-book of the University of N.C. : for the use of students

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1895 · Published by the Young Men's Christian Association of the University

The student handbook issued by the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina, printed at Chapel Hill in 1895 for the use of students. Topics include the university's curriculum, a directory of the faculty, student life at Chapel Hill and the religious life of students on campus.

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Information about the university, and the Y.M.C.A., at Chapel Hill, N.C

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) · 1890 · Stewarts' Job Office

Student handbook issued by the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina in 1890 and printed at Winston. It gives practical information about the university and the association together with a directory of the faculty.

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Constitution and by-laws of the Young Men's Christian Association, of the University of North Carolina : with a list of officers, committees, &c

Young Men's Christian Association (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)); Neathery, John B. · 1860 · Printed by John B. Neathery

Constitution and by-laws of the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of North Carolina, printed at Chapel Hill by John B. Neathery for the association's first session in 1860. A list of officers and committees follows the rules, so the pamphlet names the students who began the chapter. Topics include the association's history and its rules of practice.

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Records of the Campus Y, 1860-2005 (bulk 1950-2005).

Campus Y (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 1860

Thirty two linear feet of Campus Y records from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated 1860 to 2005 with the bulk after 1950, some 25,700 items in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40126. The files concern the university's YMCA and YWCA alongside the Campus Y. Subjects include student movements in Chapel Hill, religion on campus, the Black Faculty Staff Caucus, and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.

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  1. The student YMCA first takes part in commencement The 1880 commencement opened with an address to the Young Men's Christian Association by the Rev. F. C. Woodward of Elizabeth City, the association's first part in commencement exercises. By 1884 it met regularly in its own hall in South Building. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 193
  2. The annual YMCA convention meets at Chapel Hill The Young Men's Christian Association's annual convention met at Chapel Hill, with sessions in Gerrard Hall, reports from associations around the state and a Sunday talk to townspeople in the Baptist church. Professor J. W. Gore was chosen its president. People: Thomas Hume, Joshua W. Gore Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 355
  3. The YMCA takes charge of regular gymnasium training The trustees accepted a YMCA plan to put gymnasium exercises on a system, with each student paying a small fee, and Lacy L. Little, a recent honor graduate and former football captain trained at Springfield, was hired as trainer. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 453
  4. John Sprunt Hill endows a fellowship in history In his 1903 alumni address John Sprunt Hill gave the interest on $4,000 to set up a fellowship in the department of history. The first year's interest was to go toward a YMCA building. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 624
  5. The campus YMCA building is dedicated The new Young Men's Christian Association building was formally dedicated on the evening of June 2, 1907, after the YMCA sermon. Professor J. W. Gore presented it for the building committee and Dr. Richard H. Lewis accepted it for the trustees. People: Richard H. Lewis, Joshua W. Gore Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 665
  6. Students nominate Woodrow Wilson for president after his campus speech Students impressed by Woodrow Wilson's speech on Robert E. Lee met in the YMCA building right afterward and nominated him for president of the United States. One of them, Frank Porter Graham, was in the floor demonstration when the Democrats nominated Wilson in 1912. People: Frank Porter Graham, Robert E. Lee Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 111
  7. Student YMCA members run eight Sunday schools around Chapel Hill In 1910-11 the university YMCA organized Sunday schools at Calvander, Clark's Chapel, Williams' Chapel, Ephesus, Mount Carmel, Orange Church, Rankin's Chapel and Smith's Level, enrolling 321 pupils. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 717
  8. Students start night classes for the Black men who served the dormitories Asked for help by the young Black workers who cut firewood and carried water in the dormitories, students began teaching them reading and arithmetic in what were called moonlight schools. Under Frank Porter Graham at the campus YMCA the classes grew to take in history, English, writing, debating, home sanitation and the Bible. People: Frank Porter Graham Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 81
  9. A YMCA lecture series on Black life in the South is held for students Frank Graham and the campus YMCA organized lectures on 'Negro life in the South.' Professor Harry W. Chase told students that Black citizens were a third of the population but received a sixteenth of school spending, and that what they did not pay in property taxes they made up in fines. A second series was held five years later. People: Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 360
  10. The Chapel Hill Community Club runs an improvement contest in a Black neighborhood Susan Moses Graham and the Community Club, with YMCA students under Frank Porter Graham, organized a project in an African American neighborhood at the edge of town, giving prizes for the cleanest house, the cleanest yard and the best fence. People: Frank Porter Graham Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 81
  11. Madeline McDowell Breckinridge speaks for woman suffrage at the university Y.M.C.A. Kentucky suffragist Madeline McDowell Breckinridge spoke for an hour and a half on woman suffrage to a crowd that filled the Y.M.C.A. auditorium, the Tar Heel reported. She argued that women voters would bring stricter enforcement of the pure food laws, pointed to civic reforms in cities where women vote, and answered the objection that the ballot would lead women to neglect their homes. The Tar Heel, April 8, 1915, p. 2
  12. University students open moonlight schools in six Chapel Hill Township schoolhouses On November 1, 1915, the University YMCA opened night 'moonlight schools' in six schoolhouses within four miles of Chapel Hill, with 54 student teachers and 40 to 75 adults at each, about 300 in all. Courses ran from reading and writing to arithmetic, history and civil government. Students also ran a night school at Carrboro and two night schools for Black pupils. The News (Chapel Hill), November 11, 1915, p. 1
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  1. University YMCA students run Carrboro night schools and organize boys' clubs in Chapel Hill In fall 1916 fifteen university students carried on the night schools begun the year before, with an average of 60 at the Carrboro schools and 35 at the schools in the Black settlement. They also organized a Boys' High School Club and, for younger boys, the Knights of King Arthur, along Boy Scout lines. The News (Chapel Hill), October 12, 1916, p. 5
  2. The university Woman's Association holds a Thanksgiving peace festival To pay for layettes and other war relief, the Woman's Association planned a Thanksgiving Peace Celebration: a Gypsy Festival moved by rain into the Y.M.C.A., ending with a pageant in Gerrard Hall. It raised $350, $150 of it for the United War Fund. Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 17
  3. Harry F. Comer becomes secretary of the University YMCA Harry F. Comer, formerly YMCA secretary at Georgia Tech and for seven years a state secretary in Tennessee, took charge of the University YMCA at Chapel Hill. The Tar Heel said he meant to make his home in Chapel Hill permanently. The Tar Heel, October 4, 1921, p. 2
  4. The University Y.M.C.A. runs a picture show in Gerrard Hall after the Pickwick fire With the Pickwick Theatre burned and the town left without a movie house, the University Y.M.C.A. took over the running of a motion picture show in Gerrard Hall as an experiment, the News reported in late February 1924. Any profits were to go back to the students as lower prices. The News (Chapel Hill), February 28, 1924, p. 5
  5. Annual benefit football games fund Chapel Hill's Black public health nurse From 1927 a yearly football game between Black teams, sponsored by the University YMCA, raised money for the public health nurse serving Chapel Hill's Black community, a project run by the Community Club. The 1941 game, played on Fetzer Field, involved the Orange County Training School and raised $275 net. People: Harry F. Comer The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1941, p. 1 (Negro Game Next Week)
  6. Howard Mumford Jones opens the Bull's Head Bookshop in Murphey Hall English professor Howard Mumford Jones announced the Bull's Head Book Store, a non-profit shop for modern novels and short stories in his office at 214 Murphey Hall. It later moved to the YMCA building, the ground floor of the university library and, in 1968, the Daniels Building. The Tar Heel, February 12, 1927, p. 1
  7. James Weldon Johnson speaks at the YMCA's Institute of Human Relations Harry F. Comer's weeklong institute, approved by Chase, brought speakers on race, labor and world affairs. Johnson, NAACP executive secretary, spoke in Memorial Hall and met classes. History chair J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton walked out when Howard Odum introduced him as 'Mister Johnson' and protested to Chase, while a Tar Heel editorial by David Donald Carroll welcomed the visit. People: Howard W. Odum, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Harry F. Comer Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 362-364
  8. The biennial Human Relations Institute opens at the University The University's biennial Human Relations Institute, arranged by YMCA secretary Harry F. Comer with student and faculty committees, opened with Eduard Heimann of the New School for Social Research and Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge. Under the theme 'The Prices of Peace' it ran through April 10, with Morris Ernst of the American Civil Liberties Union speaking on prejudice and Senator J. William Fulbright giving the Weil lectures on America and world organization. People: Harry F. Comer The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 5, 1945, p. 1
  9. Harry F. Comer retires as secretary of the University YMCA Harry F. Comer stepped down after 26 years as secretary of the University YMCA. The Daily Tar Heel credited him with founding the Institute of Human Relations in 1927 and with wartime work as chairman of the housing bureau and head of the USO recreation center. People: Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House The Daily Tar Heel, September 26, 1947, p. 2
  10. Jim Medford is elected president of the campus YMCA A Daily Tar Heel photograph taken on the steps of South Building shows Jim Medford as the newly elected YMCA president with the other officers chosen in the campus Y election. The Daily Tar Heel, March 13, 1965, p. 1
  11. Students for a Democratic Society invites Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker to speak at UNC The UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society invited Frank Wilkinson, who had pleaded the Fifth Amendment when questioned in California about Communist activities, and the Communist theoretician Herbert Aptheker to speak on campus. After the trustees barred both men, Student Government under Paul Dickson, the Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Forum, the YMCA and YWCA, the Di-Phi and the Carolina Political Union joined SDS in renewing the invitations. People: Frank Wilkinson, Paul Dickson III, Herbert Aptheker The Daily Tar Heel, November 20, 1986, p. 11
  12. Eight student groups re-invite Frank Wilkinson under the trustees' new speaker rules The day after the full board of trustees adopted speaker regulations on February 28, Paul Dickson and leaders of the Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, the Daily Tar Heel, the Di-Phi, Students for a Democratic Society and the Carolina Political Union formally told Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson that Wilkinson was invited for March 2 and Aptheker for March 9. Wilkinson spoke to the Duke Bar Association in Durham that day. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson III, Herbert Aptheker, George E. Nicholson III, Robert S. Powell Jr., James A. Medford, Eunice H. Milton, John E. Greenbacker Jr., Eric Van Loon, Gary Waller, Stuart Matthews The Daily Tar Heel, March 2, 1966, p. 1
  13. Student leaders ask the chancellor to let Wilkinson and Aptheker speak on campus Paul Dickson and the heads of Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, Di-Phi, the Carolina Political Union and SDS wrote to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson asking that Wilkinson speak on March 23 and Aptheker on March 25, or on later dates. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Paul Dickson III, George E. Nicholson III, Robert S. Powell Jr., James A. Medford, Eunice H. Milton, John E. Greenbacker Jr., Eric Van Loon, Gary Waller, Stuart Matthews UNC Libraries: Letter, Students to Chancellor J.C. Sitterson, 14 March 1966 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 27, 1966, p. 1
  14. A YM-YWCA committee sends out an expanded college aid guide for Black Southern students The Scholarship Information Committee of the campus YM-YWCA Human Relations Committee began distributing an expanded edition of "College Opportunities For Southern Negro Students," listing 229 scholarships and 110 loans, to high school students and counselors across 15 Southern states. Students printed it at the Y with a Ford Foundation grant and planned 11,000 copies, after 1,500 copies of the first edition went out in 1965-66. The Daily Tar Heel, November 29, 1966, p. 1
  15. The campus YMCA holds a student referendum on the Vietnam War After Student Legislature voted on May 11 to cancel its own Vietnam referendum, the YM-YWCA ran the poll at five campus polling places. Nearly 4,000 students voted; the de-escalation choice (stop the bombing and seek negotiations) led all others, while the hawkish choices together drew a slight majority, the Daily Tar Heel reported. The Daily Tar Heel, May 17, 1967, p. 1
  16. Edith M. Elliott becomes director of the University YWCA Edith M. Elliott, a Black social worker with a master's degree from UNC's School of Social Work and a former pediatric social worker at N.C. Memorial Hospital, was named director of the University YWCA, running its tutorial and Big Brother-Big Sister programs. She also served on Chapel Hill's Community Relations Commission. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 1972, p. 6
  17. Native American students organize what becomes the Carolina Indian Circle Native American students at UNC organized in the fall of 1974, first as the Native American Student Movement on the BSM's model, and were recognized in spring 1975 as the Carolina Indian Circle. By fall 1976 it had about 65 members, an office at the YMCA and a working tie with the Black Student Movement. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 9, 1976, p. 4 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 20, 1977, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, March 16, 1978, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 16, 1985, p. 4
  18. People Against Racism forms at the Campus Y A new Campus Y group, People Against Racism, began meeting weekly to work for racial balance in university housing, social ties between Black and white students, required Afro-American Studies courses and more Black faculty, and to start an NAACP chapter. It grew out of Sorority Women Against Discrimination, formed after white sororities turned down a Black rushee in fall 1982. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 28, 1983, p. 3
  19. Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson becomes director of the Campus Y Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson, a Black woman from outside the university, was named director of the Campus Y over its longtime associate director. A staff dispute and student protests followed that fall, and a Black Ink columnist argued she had been treated unfairly. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 3, 1986, p. 2
  20. The Campus Y and the BSM dedicate the 1991-92 year to Sonja Haynes Stone The Campus Y adopted a resolution dedicating its year to Sonja Haynes Stone, who had sat on its advisory board in 1975-78 and from 1989, advised its Students for the Advancement of Race Relations and spoke each year at Freshman Camp. Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton urged the groups of the Division of Student Affairs to dedicate their year to her, and the Black Student Movement did the same. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 26, 1991, p. 3
  21. UNC housekeepers take their grievances to the Campus Y cabinet Housekeepers, most of them Black women earning about $11,000 a year, asked the student groups at a Campus Y cabinet meeting to back their push for better pay and working conditions. Students for the Advancement of Race Relations and the Student Environmental Action Coalition took up their cause, and the housekeepers spoke at a Human Rights Week rally for Sonja Haynes Stone on November 4 to 8. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 11, 1991, p. 8
  22. Students for the Advancement of Race Relations holds Race Relations Week The Campus Y group Students for the Advancement of Race Relations held a week of workshops, training sessions, films, speakers, forums and a multicultural food fair aimed at racism and prejudice on campus. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 15, 1996, p. 7

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