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How UNC looked for a successor to Chancellor Paul Hardin in 1994 and 1995: his retirement announcement, the trustees’ search committee, the student and employee campaigns for more seats, the committee’s first meeting and forums, and Michael Hooker’s inauguration.
In briefChancellor Paul Hardin announced in January 1994 that he would retire in June 1995, and trustees chairman Johnny Harris named a 22-member search committee with one student. Student groups petitioned and rallied for six more student seats and employees asked for a staff seat. Michael Hooker became chancellor on July 1, 1995.
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On January 28, 1994 Chancellor Paul Hardin, 63, told the Board of Trustees he would retire on June 30, 1995, at the close of the $400 million Bicentennial Campaign he had been hired to lead, announcing early so the trustees and UNC-system President C.D. Spangler could plan the succession. On February 18 trustees chairman Johnny Harris named a 22-member search committee of faculty, alumni and trustees, which he would head; it had five women and four Black members, and its one student was student body president-elect George Battle, named as an incoming ex officio trustee. Harris said he would not add more students. On February 23 a coalition of 13 campus groups, among them the Black Student Movement, B-GLAD, the Campus Y, the Residence Hall Association and student government, asked him to add six students and began a petition headed No Selection Without Representation. On March 2 the Employee Forum, representing about 6,500 nonfaculty employees, called leaving staff off the committee a serious omission and asked Spangler to review the search guidelines.
On March 23 about 80 students rallied on the Manning Hall lawn for the six seats; the Student Coalition for an Effective Chancellor, about 22 campus groups, had gathered more than 4,000 signatures, and Student Congress backed the request that night. The next day Spangler gave the committee its charge at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center, telling it to hold open meetings with students, faculty and townspeople and to look for a scholar, while about 28 coalition students stood silently at the entrance with red gags over their mouths. On April 14 committee members heard faculty, staff and students at three forums in Hamilton and Gerrard halls; only about 25 people came to the student session, and employee leaders asked for a chancellor who valued nonfaculty staff. Michael Hooker took office as chancellor on July 1, 1995 and was inaugurated on University Day, October 12.
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Program for the inauguration of C. D. Spangler Jr. as president of the University of North Carolina system, held in Chapel Hill on October 17, 1986, with an itinerary of exhibits and musical events. 26 images.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
A television program produced by Shannon Vickery and first aired on November 13, 1997, with Chapel Hill as its setting. It deals with the first Medical News Reporting Symposium, held in Chapel Hill that year, to Tom Linden, to C. D. Spangler Jr., and to the curriculum at East Carolina University, along with the schools of journalism and public health at the University of North Carolina.
Three presidents of the University of North Carolina system, Clemmie Dixon Spangler, Molly Broad and William Friday, together at UNC-Chapel Hill's University Award ceremonies in 1997. Photographed by Hugh Morton.
At Michael Hooker's inauguration as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill on 12 October 1995, UNC system president C. D. Spangler speaks. Color 35 mm negative by Hugh Morton.
A UNC-TV recording of the memorial service for Michael Hooker, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who died in 1999. Marita Matray and D. G. Martin hosted the broadcast, issued from Research Triangle Park. The service is a public record of how the campus marked his death.
A memorial booklet published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 for Michael Hooker, its chancellor, who lived from 1945 to 1999. It accompanied the memorial service in Memorial Hall on 2 July 1999.
Final report of the Task Force on Fiscal Relationships, dated July 7, 1999, appointed jointly by the Chapel Hill mayor and town council and by Chancellor Michael Hooker of the University of North Carolina. It covers town appropriations and expenditures, city planning in Chapel Hill, university finance and the wider question of community and college relations. 86 unnumbered pages.
Michael Kenneth Hooker's installation address as chancellor, delivered on University Day, October 12, 1995, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The text occupies pages five through eight of a large format publication. University Day marks the laying of the cornerstone of Old East in 1793, and Chapel Hill has used the date for the installation of a new chancellor.
Adam Lucas marks one hundred years of basketball at the University of North Carolina in this illustrated history, published by UNC Press in 2010 in association with the athletics department. Chapters follow the program from the game's arrival on campus and the 'White Phantoms' of the Southern Conference through the founding of the ACC, the 1957 season, Dean Smith's changes to the game and the title seasons of 1982, 1993, 2005 and 2009, closing with a century of statistics. 289 pages.
Rick Jackson's true crime history of Chapel Hill, published by The History Press in 2023, in 28 short chapters. Cases include the Efland bank robbery, the execution of John Henry Breeze, the unsolved murder of Suellen Evans, the killing at the Internationalist Bookstore and the death of Eve Carson.
The Duke and North Carolina basketball rivalry written together by Johnny Moore and Art Chansky, the latter a sports reporter who has followed it since his student days at UNC. The book opens with the 2014 season and moves through recruiting battles old and new, 'Black and Blue Sunday', 'Blood and Roses', and chapters on the rivalry's heroes, leaders and teachers, with a foreword by Jay Bilas and a photo gallery. Published by Triumph Books in 2014, 289 pages.
H. G. Jones follows the fortune of Mary Ruffin Smith (1814-1885), the unmarried heiress whose Orange and Chatham County lands passed at her death to the University of North Carolina and the Episcopal Church. Chapters profile her grandfather Francis Jones, then trace the bequest through a quarrel among Episcopalians over Price Creek, the Chapel of the Cross and the university's buildings. A December 1885 New York Times report called the gift money; Jones shows it was land. Published by McFarland in 2014, 231 pages.
Steven J. Tepper's chronicle of how the University of North Carolina marked its bicentennial in 1993 and 1994. An appendix reprints the University Day speeches of October 12, 1993, given by Paul Hardin, James B. Hunt Jr., C.D. Spangler, William C. Friday, Charles Kuralt and President Bill Clinton, plus bicentennial addresses by Li Lu, Francis S. Collins and Richard J. Richardson. Published by the university in Chapel Hill, 1998; 284 pages.
Art Chansky's 2016 account of Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and the years that changed Chapel Hill as a Southern college town. Scott was the first Black scholarship player in the Carolina basketball program. Topics include civil rights, racism in sports and the university's twentieth-century history.
Biography of William C. Friday, president of the University of North Carolina system, by historian William A. Link, published by UNC Press in 1995 with the subtitle power, purpose, and American higher education. It covers Friday's career and the history of the university at Chapel Hill and statewide. Part of the Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection.
William D. Snider's history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1992. It runs 370 pages with illustrations, a bibliography and an index.
Reviewed in History of Education Quarterly (1993), The Journal of Southern History (1993).
Twelve essays by novelist Daphne Athas (1923-2020) on the Chapel Hill she knew across the twentieth century. Subjects include Carrboro as 'the Paris of the Piedmont', philosopher Horace Williams, Betty Smith writing in Chapel Hill, Junius Scales, Ab Abernethy and the Intimate Bookshop, Richard Wright's visit, and a set of Chapel Hill murders. Published 2010, 243 pages with illustrations.
Scott Fowler gathers recollections from Carolina basketball players, decade by decade from the 1950s to the 2000s, organized around Roy Williams and the question in the title. Contributors include Lennie Rosenbluth, Larry Brown, Billy Cunningham, Charlie Scott, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Brad Daugherty, Eric Montross, Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, Raymond Felton and Sean May, each entry giving position and playing years. Published 2010 by Triumph Books of Chicago, 270 pages, here as an e-book.
Archibald Henderson's history of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, its buildings and grounds from the founding in the 1790s onward. Henderson, a professor of mathematics and a prolific historian of the university, wrote it in the years around the university's sesquicentennial. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1949, 412 pages with illustrations and bibliographical footnotes.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1949), South Atlantic Quarterly (1950).
Charles Phillips Russell's biography of Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908), the Chapel Hill writer remembered for ringing the bell of South Building when the university reopened in 1875 after its closure during Reconstruction. It doubles as a history of Chapel Hill and the university. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1949, 293 pages with illustrations.
Reviewed in Journal of American History (1949).
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