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Revson Foundation Honors Alumnus Eli
Evans with gift to Carolina Center for
Jewish Studies
By Del Helton, UNC Arts and
Sciences Foundation
CHAPEL HILL - The Charles
H. Revson Foundation of New
York has honored its president
emeritus, Eli N. Evans, with a
$250,000 gift to the Carolina
Center for Jewish Studies at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
The gift will establish a program
in Evans’ name that supports out
reach activities on campus and in
communities across North
Carolina. Among the program’s
features will be an annual scholar-
in-residence to present a public lec
ture and meet with students, facul
ty and the community; other visit
ing speakers; and lectures by UNC-
Chapel Hill faculty to public
groups in NC urban and rural com
munities, ranging in subject from
the origins of the Bible and the
Dead Sea Scrolls to the Holocaust
and the history of Jews in the
American South.
“We are extraordinarily proud of
the many contributions Eli has
made to the betterment of our com
mon life, and we are delighted that
the Revson Foundation has chosen
to honor his many years of service
in this fashion,” said UNC
Chancellor James Moeser. “As an
undergraduate, he served as presi
dent of the student body, and he has
been a loyal son of Carolina, fol-
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Eli Evans
lowing in his father’s distinguished
footsteps.”
Evans’ father was E.J. Evans, a
1928 UNC graduate who was
Durham’s mayor from 1951 to
1963 and president of Carolina’s
General Alumni Association in
1972-73. He received the universi
ty’s Distinguished Alumnus Award
in 1972.
Eli Evans, who graduated from
Carolina in 1958 and Yale Law
School in 1963, chairs the advisory
board for the Carolina Center for
Jewish Studies, established in the
College of Arts and Sciences in
2003. A Durham native, Evans was
a speechwriter on the staff of
President Lyndon B. Johnson and
directed former NC Gov. Terry
Sanford’s “Study of American
States.” The nationwide study,
funded by the Ford and Carnegie
foundations, focused on the future
of state government.
Evans joined the Carnegie
Corp., a national education founda
tion, in 1968. In 1978, he became
the first president of the Revson
Foundation. He oversaw grants
totaling more than $147 million to
Jewish causes, urban affairs, edu
cation and biomedical research. He
retired in 2(X)3 after 25 years at the
foundation.
Evans’ books include “The
Provincials: A Personal History of
Jews in the South,” widely consid
ered a classic after 30 years in
print; “Judah P. Benjamin: The
Jewish Confederate,” a biography
of the Confederacy’s Secretary of
State; and “The Lonely Days Were
Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish
Southerner,” a collection of essays.
Evans lives in New York City
with his wife Judith; his son Josh is
a freshman at UNC.
“Often called the poet laureate
of Southern Jews, Eli has had an
enormous influence on all of us
who engage in Jewish studies,”
said Dr. Jonathan M. Hess, director
of the UNC center and a Germanic
languages professor. “Eli has been
involved with the center since its
inception, sharing his time, his
vision and his deep love for
Carolina. It is a great honor for us
that the Revson Foundation has
made this gift to recognize him.”
The center engages in teaching
and research to explore Jewish his
tory, culture and religion in the
United States and abroad. Last fall
the center launched a public lecture
series that has drawn hundreds to
campus to hear speakers including
Stuart Eizenstat, former Deputy
Secretary of the Treasury and
Undersecretary of State in the
Clinton administration, and author
Emily Bingham.
Carolina gave the study of
Judaism a prominent role in its cur
riculum in 1947 when creating its
department of religious studies,
one of the first at an American pub
lic university. Today, the university
offers nearly 30 courses in Jewish
studies across five departments:
English, Germanic languages, his
tory, religious studies and Slavic
languages and literatures. More
than 700 students enroll in these
courses each year. The university
began offering an undergraduate
minor in Jewish studies in fall
2003.
“It is inspiring to witness Jewish
studies for all faiths coming alive
at UNC,” said Evans. “The center
is a consequential idea, and this is
the right time and place in history
to launch it. What our flagship uni
versity does will radiate across the
South and the nation.”
The gift counts toward the
Carolina First campaign goal of
$1.8 billion. Carolina First is a
multi-year, private fund-raising
campaign to support Carolina’s
vision of becoming the nation’s
leading public university. Jewish
studies’ campaign goal is $24 mil
lion. UNC aspires to become the
leading campus in this field in the
South.
For more information about the
Carolina Center for Jewish Studies,
see www.unc.edu/ccjs/.4*
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Hoffman-Kaye
Amy Lynn Hoffman and Peter
Mitchell Kaye were married
October 11, 2003 at the Boston
HaiEor Hotel, Boston, MA. The
bride is the daughter of Carol and
Peter Hoffman of Boston. She is a
graduate of Emory University and
received her Masters degree from
Lesley University, Cambridge,
MA. She is a special education
teacher in Newton, MA. The
groom is the son of Susan and
Barry Kaye of Charlotte, NC.
Peter is a graduate of University of
Michigan and Tufts University
School of Medicine. In June, he
will begin his residency in anesthe
siology at Emory University in
Atlanta.
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