James E. Wadsworth Papers, 1942-1976

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James E. Wadsworth Papers, 1942-1976

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James E. Wadsworth was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1935; served in the United States Navy during World War II; and was housing officer and director of housing, 1946-1973, for the University of North Carolina. He coordinated and moderated a science program at WUNC-TV, 1954-1969, and was narrator of programs at the Morehead Planetarium. The collection includes papers, 1942-1945, relating to the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, N.C.; papers, 1946-1973, relating to student housing at the University of North Carolina; files, 1957-1976, relating to Morehead Planetarium; papers, 1954-1970, relating to WUNC-TV; and photographs, chiefly of people and places at the University of North Carolina. Included are memoranda about housing policy; correspondence about student housing; information about the histories of dormitories and housing at the University; scripts for shows at Morehead Planetarium; and materials relating to , a WUNC-TV show coordinated and moderated by Wadsworth for junior high and senior high school students. Also included are photographs of people at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, of dormitories at the University of North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s, of people at Morehead Planetarium, and of Wadsworth and others on the set. Science and Nature Science and Nature

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6629468

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Wadsworth, James E. (James Edgar), 1909-1995

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James E. Wadsworth was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1935; served in the United States Navy during World War II; and was housing officer and director of housing, 1946-1973, for the University of North Carolina. He coordinated and moderated a science program at WUNC-TV, 1954-1969, and was narrator of programs at the Morehead Planetarium. From the description of James E. Wadsworth papers, 1909-1995 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 48955944 Ja...

Wadsworth, James E., 1968-

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WUNC-TV

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