September 17, 1953
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Among the noted DAILY TAR HEEL
former editors, editorial writers and
contributors who have achieved statewide or
national prominence are pictured as followed
(beginning with top center going clockwise to
the right): NEW YORK TIMES managing editor
Clifton Daniel, editorial writer, 1932-33; CBS
newscaster Charles Kuralt, editor, 1954-55;
Pulitzer Prize winner and editor of the
NORFOLK VIRGINIAN PILOT Lenoir
Chambers, editor, 1913-14; UNC journalism
professor Walter Spearman, editor, 1928-29,
under whom the DTH became a daily; public
opinion analyst and columnist Louis Harris,
associate editor, 1941-42; RALEIGH NEWS
AND OBSERVER editor and publisher
Jonathan Daniels, editor, 1921-22.
Also (continuing with center bottom),
WALL STREET JOURNAL editor Vermont C.
Royster, editorial board member, 1935; 1967
N.C. Press Association President and editor and
publisher of the CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
Orville B. Campbell, editor, 1941-42; the late
author of LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL and
others, Asheville novelist Thomas Wolfe, editor,
1920-21; Pulitzer Prize winner and editor and
publisher of the TABOR CITY TRIBUNE
Horace Carter, editor, 1943-44; UNC Alumni
Secretary and one of the last DTH non-daily
editors, J.M. "Spike" Saunders, editor,
1924-25; and former UNC President and UN
mediator Frank Porter Graham, editor,
1908-09.
Its influence is felt more
than many of the state's daily
newspapers. The views it
professes are respected by
liberals across the south and
scoffed at by the more
conventional conservative
elements still prevalent in the
South. It is known to many as
the "liberal press" of North
Carolina and to others as "a
creeping socialist newspaper."
This is The Daily Tar
Heel proudly beginning her
76th year in existence.
It's a proud heritage that
this year's editor will inherit.
THE LIST of editors
includes governors, statesmen,
politicians, world renowned
newspapermen and radio and
television people who have
risen from the UNC student
newspaper position to tops in
their professions.
Included among the former
editors are the following:
former N.C. Governor, the late
J.C.B. Ehringhaus; the late
author of Look Homeward
Angel and other novels,
Thomas Wolfe; Jonathan
Daniels, editor and publisher of
the Raleigh News and
Observor; former North
Carolina Governor Terry
Sanford, now a prime force in
the campaign strategy of
getting Hubert Humphrey
elected president.
The list is long and
impressive. Former UNC
President and United Nations
. Mediator Frank Porter Graham
is also a former editor. He
emphasized more pointedly
than anyone else the real
function of the paper.
"I learned that students
were capable of self-government
in a campus democracy,"
Mr. Graham said. This point
emphasizes one of the
University's highest ideals.
IT HASN'T been easy to
bring The Daily Tar Heel to the
point of being one of the
nation's six leading college
organs. It's taken hard work,
bitter fights and superior
leadership.
The Tar HeeL forever noted
for its crusades ("every editor
has one," a former editor says),
continues to carry its torch
signifying the belief in its right
to expression the most prized
possession of the paper.
Despite bitter fights with
the University administration
and others, the Tar Heel has
yet to be called down for
questionable action.
The paper was born in 1893
with Charles Bakersville, later a
professor of Chemistry at
UNC, as its first editor. Shortly
after this time, the Tar Heel
was called the "... best,
brightest, newsiest college
paper in the. union," by a
Harvard journalism professor.
This is a tradition the paper has
tried to carry on.
Recently, the Tar Heel was
one of six college newspapers
to win the Pacemaker Award
for "overall excellence"
sponsored by the American
Newspaper Publishers
Association. Last year, it also
held the distinction of being
judged the "best college
newspaper in the southeast" in
the Southeastern College
Newspaper competition.
The Daily Tar Heel is
published soley by a student
staff and is not subject to
censorship by faculty or
administration. The editor is
elected by a campus-wide vote
of students. He, in turn
appoints the remainder of the
editorial staff.
UNC Press Has
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It is an art, best acquired with our kind of attire. Every college
gentleman wishes to be thought correct in dress, and the Pro
prietor assures it. In suits, in sports apparel, in furnishings
alike, our label is the hallmark of traditional good grooming.
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The University of North
Carolina Press is one of the
least known facets to the
average student and townsman,
but paradoxically it is
renowned as one of the finest
scholarly publishing houses.
This week the UNC Press
will release four publications:
The Book of Good Love -written
by Juan Ruiz in 1343
and translated into English by
Elisha Kent Kane which
presents a panaroma of early
fourteenth-century Spain; The
Greensboro Reader a collection
of stories and poems by
twenty-one writers and poets
including Peter Taylor, Hiram
Haydn, X.J. Kennedy and
Randall Jarrell who have either
taught or studied at
UNC-Greensboro; The North
Carolina Gazatteer by William
S. Powell, a geographical
dictionary prepared over the
past fifteen years which
includes 20,000 entries of
concise information about the
State's counties, cities,
communities, geographical
features and historical sites;
and North Carolina's Capital,
Raleigh by Elizabeth
Culbertson Waugh which
relates the history of the city
from its beginnings in 1792 to
the present including many
contemporary photographs by
Ralph Mills.
The UNC Press was
established in 1922 and
published its first book, The
Saprolegniaceae by Dr. W.C.
Coker, on July 21, 1923.
Although the University had
issued and sponsored various
journals and pamphlets before
1922, there was no local
organization which published
research and creative work in
book form.
Louis Round Wilson,
University librarian at the time,
nurtured the newly-founded
press and became its first
director. The first few years
were difficult for the press
financially, however, its
struggle was aided by funds
from the University and from
the Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Memorial donation.
The depression hit hard in
the 1930's. The book funds
were cut and the Rockefeller
funds had been used up. Sales
which had been $28,000 in
1930 dropped to $17,000 the
following year. At this low ebb
the Press lost its director and
founder, Dr. Wilson who
resigned to become dean of the
graduate school of Library
Science at the University of
Chicago. W.T.Couch who had
been assistant director of the
Press since 1925 took over
Wilson's place.
The Press accumulated a
store of publishing experience
during the second decade of its
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THE BUSINESS manager is
appointed by the Publications
Board, made up of students
with a faculty advisor.
Vermont Royster, former
DTH editor and now editor of
the Wall Street Journal, has
fond remembrances of his days
on the Tar Heel Staff. He said
working on the DTH gave him
a taste of the "sheer fun of
being a newspaperman."
Royster is a former Pulitzer
Prize winner and also serves as
vice president of Dow Jones
and Co., Inc.
Charles Kuralt, a
correspondent with CBS News,
was editor of the Tar Heel
during the 1954 de-segragaiion
issues. Of the paper today,
Kuralt says: "Freedom to
deliver myself of opinions at
the rate of three a day
obviously made the year one of
the finer, freer, more
stimulating of my life. The
DTH taught all the lessons of
journalism and some of the
lessons of lifee ... if only I had
possessed the wit - to learn
them!"
FROM ITS inception in
1893 through many turbulent
times when the Tar Heel has
been attacked from almost
every direction one fact still
remains. The Tar Heel is the
proud possessor of editorial
freedom a fixture it has
enjoyed over the past 75 years.
The DTH has watched many
of her former leaders grow to
the top echelons in their
professions. As she takes on a
new editor this year, she will
be guided in the same
direction toward the freedom
of expression of her ideas and
ideals.
" This is it. This is The Dailv
Tar Heel-76 years old.
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