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8 The Tar Heel Thursday. June 9, 1977 Katherine Carmichael Serene administrator says she got Chapel Hill sand in shoes 3 1 years ago and can't leave a By AMY McRARY Staff Writer The office in the basement of Steele building is a combination of a gracious lady's parlor and a busy professor's office; a mixture of past and present. A portrait of Wilbur L. Steele, for whom the building w as named, hangs above the huge desk that once belong to Frank Porter Graham. Folders and books cover the desk, among them "What the University of North Carolina Means to Me." Scattered on the Oriental rug that belonged to former N.C. Gov. Luther Hodge are boxes and more boxes of books labeled for their destinations. Serene in the midst of this chaos sits Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, English instructor, dean of women, and later associate dean of student affairs. Meeting Katherine Carmichael is a bit like stepping back to a less hurried more gracious time. There is a distant feeling that this is a lady of the Old South, of magnolias and barbecues. "Won't you have a cup of black coffee, my dear." she asks and sends her assistant for a cup. Yet if being a lady means only watching magnolias bloom, then it is an unfair description, for Miss Carmichael has been busy teaching and advising students for 45 years. The places she has taught read like an atlas: Wisconsin, Maryland, Birmingham, Vietnam. Texas, the Philippines, Yale and Vanderbilt. At age 64. this tiny lady is not about to sit still and stop her ever-active career. For all her petiteness and seemingly fragility, she speaks with know ledge and quiet authority. "Sometimes 1 think I have done very little in my life except work, but I've always had great joy in my w ork," she says "After all, in all these years, I've combined administration, student personnel and teaching." She w as teaching English at the U niversity of Wisconsin in 1946 w hen Robert B. House telegraphed her that she was to replace Margaret Henry Stacy as dean of women. "1 was 33 years old and I had decided I wanted a job where 1 could remain for a length of time," Miss Carmichael remembers. "The walks of Chapel Hill were all sand then and the legend was that if vou got the sand of Chapel Hill in your shoes you could never leave." "Well, I hae remained at this university for 31 vears. with occasional leaves of absence to teach elsewhere, and I found it delightful." she said with a smile. Thirtv-one years brings a lot of changes to anv place, and UNC has been no exception. "When 1 was first dean of women, there were undergraduate women here. The orientation counselors would bring them by mv apartment to see me. I believe 1 averaged meeting three groups of girls a day." When she first came to UNC, coeds were required to be in their dorms by 1 1 on weekday nights and 12 on weekend nights, wore chiffon dresses to parties and vied for the title of May Queen. Now, women students may remain out a!! night if they wish, blue jeans abound lor ail occasions and the May Queen is a tradition of the past. Besides the changes in the Universitv. Miss Carmichael remembers both pranks and crises during her years here. "When 1 first started teaching, 1 wouldn't let dogs in my classroom. Students would hide the animals under their knees. $ 4 6ks!Sk$L X .wj-s- Staff pnoto by Josepn Thomas JW SOf specialn fS mJr J (GOOD THUR. 69-WED. 615) X Buy any regular sandwich and drink, get a J n J second sandwich of samejandjor 500 Summer hours: 23399BV' l, 100 women students. The campus didn't go beyond Manning Drive and the total number of students was 4,500." She laughs as she remembers, "I thought that was a lovely size. You see, Wisconsin seemed huge with its 9,000 students." "But," with what may have been a sigh, "we knew we'd grow. That may be unfortunate, for people just don't know everyone as they did. 1 once knew most of the "But the students looked so uncommonly angelic, I knew they w ere hiding something. 1 could snap my fingers and out would crawl the poor dog." Among the happy times also have been crises. "I spent many a time going over the class roster. If there were two Mary Smiths in school and Mary Jean Smith was badly hurt in an accident, then 1 would check the roster to see if another girl had a similar Please turn to page 10. Monday - Thursday 11 AM - 8 PM Fri day and Saturday 11 AM -1 AM Closed Sundays (starting May 22) NCNB Plaza, E. RosemaYy St S N X PAPER, THESIS, DISSERTATION? When time is running out, you can rely on us to live up to our name. Get it copied, collated, quick! At Copyquick. Above the N.C. Cafeteria. 1331 Franklin Street929-4028 G E E G 0 G C G C G G 0 G :J) i ! 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