Records of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2002-2006.

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Records of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2002-2006.

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The School of Journalism and Mass Communications records include correspondence, minutes, and other materials relating to the administration of the school, relations of the school to other departments in the university, and the planning of conferences and other programs. Also included are 41 audio recordings of oral history interviews with the school's former students, many of whom worked as journalists; faculty; and administrators. The interviews were conducted by Thomas A. Bowers in 2007-2008 in preparation for his 2009 book Making News: One Hundred Years of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carolina. Interviewees include some of the first female and African American students to enroll in the university, including Karen Parker, the first African American female undergraduate admitted to the university; other African Amrican students; William Friday; Roland Giduz; Roy Wilder Jr.; Ed Yoder; and others.

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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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Roland Giduz (1925- ) of Chapel Hill, N.C., journalist and long-time associate director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Association and editor of several of its serial publications. Giduz is also active in civic and service organizations in the community and served for twelve years on the Chapel Hill Town Council. From 1953 through 1982, he contributed a regular local feature and opinion column called "Newsman's Notepad" to the Chapel Hill Newspaper and other local news...

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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...

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Friday, William Clyde

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Wilder, Roy

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Roy Wilder Jr. was born 1914. He attended the University of North Carolina's School of Journalism, but left before graduating. Wilder worked as a war correspondent during World War II; a newspaper reporter in New York and North Carolina; and in conservation and development, politics, and public relations. While in New York, Wilder developed a life-long friendship with North Carolina native Joseph Mitchell, who wrote for "The New Yorker" for almost 60 years. "You All Spoken Here," Wilder's book a...

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Courses in journalism at the University of North Carolina were taught in the Department of English beginning in 1909. In 1924, the Department of Journalism was established. In 1950, it became the School of Journalism. The school was renamed School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1990 to reflect the expanded scope of its curriculum. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. From the description of Records of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, ...

Parker, Karen L.

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The first African-American woman undergraduate to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Karen L. Parker was born in Salisbury, N.C., and grew up in Winston-Salem, N.C. Parker worked for the Winston-Salem Journal before attending UNC-Chapel Hill. She majored in journalism and was elected vice-president of the UNC Press Club and served as editor of the UNC Journalist, the School of Journalism's newspaper, in 1964. After graduating in 1965, Parker was a copy editor for the Grand R...