Records of the Frank Porter Graham Portrait Committee, 1949-1958 [manuscript].

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Records of the Frank Porter Graham Portrait Committee, 1949-1958 [manuscript].

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Records of the Frank Porter Graham Portrait Committee are comprised primarily of correspondence between Fred H. Weaver (1915-1972), Dean of Student Affairs and Secretary of the Committee, and D. Hiden Ramsey (1892-1966), Chair of the Committee, concerning negotiations for having the portrait painted. Also included are letters to prospective committee members and donors; correspondence with Dr. and Mrs. Frank Porter Graham; and documentation of arrangements for the unveiling ceremony and copies of the proceedings and speeches delivered at this ceremony on 19 May 1956. The history of the project is summarized in a letter of 15 April 1955 from Weaver to prospective Committee members.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Weaver, Fred H. (Frederick Henry), 1915-1972

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Fred H. Weaver, a long-time educational administrator at the University of North Carolina, was born in Aberdeen, N.C. in 1915 and died in India in 1972. From the description of Fred H. Weaver papers, 1938-1971 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 52861428 Fred H. Weaver, a long time educational administrator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was born in Aberdeen, N.C., in 1915. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Frank Porter Graham Portrait Committee.

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The project to have a portrait painted of Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was initiated by University of North Carolina students in 1949, and taken up again in 1953 through the office of the Dean of Student Affairs, not as an official act of the University, but as a project of friends of Graham. From the description of Records of the Frank Porter Graham Portrait Committee, 1949-1958 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26992969 ...

Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972

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President of the University of North Carolina; U.S. senator for North Carolina. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1943-1950. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122619645 Educator, government official. From the description of Reminiscences of Frank Porter Graham : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376749 University president. From the...

Ramsey, D. Hiden (Darley Hiden), 1891-1966

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Darley Hiden Ramsey of Asheville, N.C., was a newspaper editor, public speaker, city and state official, member of educational boards, writer, and sportsman. From the description of D. Hiden Ramsey papers, 1877-1966. WorldCat record id: 25507463 Darley Hiden Ramsey, son of Simeon Clay and Lucy (Pinckard) Ramsey, was born in Gretna, Va., in 1891. In 1903, his family moved to Asheville, N.C., to the same neighborhood as Thomas Wolfe. Ramsey received two degrees fr...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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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...