FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday — Vol. 32, No. 80 No. 1 and No. 2 Men of the Consolidated University of North Carolina •V - - ' '• , I ' ? 'wsv;?v£ r 'f/s t ML mHHHR §m i4|^m.V. - * *’'’»:■ ••.‘^~^.^‘o , " :^'* fIHB '■'■■»■s§* iW jillßßßßllißß ggjlm ~ 111118 .BIIllllllllil» \n ite s£Hb£HH x ii SMHB B Jl.\ : -:. u B. g^^B| || l l;£'^2l^l^l^*^jfc^ Clll-« IByl|||§|| ( m p ' u GOVERNOR LUTHER HODGES ANI) WILLIAM <’. FRIDAY To University President in 36 Years The son of Mr. and Mrs.' Latham Friday, William C. Fri-j _jlay was born at Rapine, Va., on July Id, 1920. In his early years, the family moved to Dallas, N. C., so Uiat his father could pursue his caiVr m textiles. It was in Dallas thaj Bill, as he is popularly and af fectionately known, was reared, and it was from the Gastonia' High School that he was gradu ated in 1937. In high school Mr. Friday was a member of the basketball team] and a debater as well as active other scholastic affairs. He also a catcher on the first American Legion baseball team fielded by Cherryville. Mr. Friday chose to attend Wake Forest .College in 1937-38 because of his Baptist ties, but Wi le Had If This spring Governor Hodges said of Mr. Friday: “There comes a point of crisis in University affairs when somebody’s got to do something and do it now... This has been an outstanding job, with courage and action and decisiveness that we’ve needed. And we’ve had it from Presi dent Friday. Dangerous Assignment The best example of Bill Fri day's quiet courage occurred De flpmber 31, 1951 when he was ' acting dean of students here. Someone telephoned him that a student had gone berserk and was terrorizing Battle-Vance- Pettigrew Dormitory and an en tire block of Franklin Street. The student had a gun, and he was shooting it. Three shots had been fired from the revolver. While people were about, taking cover from danger, Bill Friday walked deliberately up to the boy. The student did not fire. Four feet from the stu dent, Friday stopped, spoke to the boy. Then the student again seemed to be about to lose con trol of himself. He doubled his fist. But at that moment a policeman grabbed the student and hgld him. 5 Cents a Copy ! then decided to change to the I N. C. State College textile school because of his father’s long ca reer in the textile business. ■‘ At N. < State Mr. Friday was active in extra-curricular func tions which probably had a great ideal of bearing upon his gradual 'yet speedy ascendancy to the 'presidency of the Consolidated | University. At State College, Mr. Friday was president of the senior class and later was named its perma jnent president. He was also presi dent of the North Carolina Fed eration of Student Governments and a member of the Golden Chain. Then he was graduated in 1941 with a bachelor’of science degree and began waiting a call into the Navy for service in World War 11. He wasn’t idle while waiting. To fill in with^.something to do, Mr. Friday took a job in the office of the dean of students at N. C. State. There, too, he became acquainted with administrative matters. Finally called into service, Mr. Friday was an ordance officer with the rank of full lieutenant from May 1942 through April Victor Bryant Was Chairman of Group The selection committee of the Board of Trustees entrusted to recommend a president of the Consolidated University was eom- jposed of the following: Victor S. Bryant of Durham, chairman; Kemp D. Battle, Rocky Mount; Horton Doughton, States ville; Dr. Henry Mann, Engle- Ihard; Rudolph Mintz, Wilming ton; Mrs. Albert H. Latrop, Asheville; Dr. Shahane Taylor, Greensboro; W. Frank Taylor, Goldsboro; and Mrs. Charles W. Tillett, Charlotte. Society President In 1956 W. C. Friday served as president of the North Carolina i Cancer Society. When he gave up the presidency, the society presented him with a desk set in token of his distinguished work. The Chapel Hill Weekly 11916 at the Naval ’Depot at Portsmouth, Va. Upon discharge from the Navy, Mr. Friday entered the law school! at the University here and was! graduated in. 1948. During his' tenure here, he wa.s elected presi-i dent of the Law School Associ-j ation and to membership in the! Golden Fleece, the campus’ high ! est-ranking honor organization. Upon graduation from the Law] School, Mr. Friday was named immediately as assistant to the dean of students. His quiet, tactful, and efficient conduct of the duties entrusted to him were observed by Presi dent Gordon Gray, who chose him for his personal assistant in 1951 and later as Secretary to the Consolidated University. With Mr. Gray, observers noted that Mr. Friday performed “with smooth efficiency and without any fanfare.” When Mr. Gray relinquished the post of president, and was succeeded by J. Harris Purks, Mr. Purks retained Mr. Friday. And when Mr. Purks was named chairman of the State Board of Higher Education, Mr. F’riday succeeded him as acting presi dent of the University. That is the job he is now hold ing and one of the many im portant ones of his brief but full life in which he has performed ably. So ably that the presi dential selection committee chose him from more than 150 persons i suggested for what many people consider the No. 1 higher edu cational post in the state. *Stoat Arm * During the presidency of Gordon Gray, he referred to Bill Friday, then his assistant and secretary to the Consoli dated University as: “My stout right arm." Roots for Woman’s College An alumnus of b6th N. C. State College and the University here, Mr. Friday was asked recently whether he’s impartial when Car-. 1 olina plays State in football. He replied: “When State plays Caro-j lina, I root for the Woman's Cot-j lege."* I CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1956 # j Confidence Vote When Bill Friday stepped down as assistant dean of stu ! dents to become assistant to the president of the Consolidated University in 1951, the student i body here paid tribute to him ; in formal resolution and gave 1 him a vote of confidence. It ! was one of the few times in the history of the University that such a vote has been given an official. Everyone Claims Bill Bill Friday, the man who will be the next President of the Uni versity. is an alumnus of three North Carolina institutions of higher learning. Wake Forest alumni are 1 pleased to say that the University of North Carolina is being led by a Wake Forest Baptist; that is where Bill Friday was an undergraduate. State Col lege people refer to Friday as one of its most distinguished graduates in textile engineering. 1 He also made a distinguished record at Chapel Hill, receiving his law degree in 1948. F’riday’s a Family Man Bill Friday is a family man. His home and two daughters, Frances, age four, and Mary Howell, eight weeks, are his hob i hies. He plays a bit of golf some times and he tries to keep the ; grass growing in his yard, F’or reading he favors history and biography. WE APPROVE For the first time in the his tory of the Chapel Hill Week ly the entire front page is i devoted to one subject. We j feel that there is nothing more i important to the well being of this community than great leadership at the University. | In Bill Friday the University will have available the vision needed for the perplexing problems in the years ahead. The Weekly joins thousands ’i of other North Carolinians in i offering congratulations to Mr. j and Mrs. William Friday. —The Editor* Bill Friday Selected for President of University William C. Friday was selected Thursday for the pres idency of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. Announcement of Mr. Friday’s selection was made about 12:30 p. m. by Archie Allen, secretary of the Board of Trustees Executive committee. A call was is ed to the full board of trustees to meet in Raleigh Oc tober 26 to vote on the recommendation. Thus Mr. Friday at the age of 36 will be the youngest man ever to serve as head of the Consolidated Univer sity. Younger men have served as chief of the Chapel Hill part, but Mr. Friday (if elected by the full board of trustees—and it is most certain that he will) will be the youngest ever to head the three-fold institution at Ra leigh, Greensboro and here. For the University his immediate aims are the ones he espoused every time he has a chance to talk about it: a good faculty for the three-fold University ; maintain ing an atmosphere where the quality of teaching is high; continuing the tradition of superior teaching and distinguished research, further attention to the Univer sity's extension program. Mr. Friday has repeated that Mr. Friday Seems to Please All \ii tor S. Bryant, chairman of the committee which select ed Mr. Friday; “Mr. Friday has courageously met and solv ed many complex ami perplex ing problems.” William D. Carmichael, vice president of th< Consolidated University: “The Good Lord always provides for North Carolina. Once again the Uni versity has risen above adver sity, diversity, and perversity. \\ e rejoice in the selection of William Friday as president. He is a'man of faith, dedica tion, courage, vision and diplo macy.” Chancellor R. B. House; “The best qualified man for the job." *►* Robert M. Lester exec ute director of the Southern, IVI, row hip Fund: '“The selection of Mr. Friday is a happy choice. He is professionally trained, administratively experienced, and educationally competent. His friendliness, quiet dignity, and ability to listen and to de cide give him a great advan tage in facing the complicated problems of modern higher education. His knowledge of I the State of North Carolina will stand him in good stead locally, and as he moves out into association with leaders of other prominent universities i he will meet with skill and con | fidenee all the requirements of J the presidency of the Univer j sity of North Carolina.” ; State Senator-nominate Ed j win S. Lanier: “This selection ! pleases me very much.” Rep. John W. Umstead: “1 have been for Hill Friday ever since he was named acting president of the University. His accomplishments as acting president are such that they fully justify the trustees in naming him to the post of per i manent president.” J. Maryon Saunders, secre [ tary of the University Alumni Association: “Bill Friday as president will give the Univer (Continued on page 12) m AjKKmM WRMMMm JHk ■ Br J ■ f >* I;. *”■ f W - ■ H. Jt m , mm —Mfagftv JmMBMBFV:'. -V I . W. D. CARMICHAEL IK. AND MR. FRIDAY I I . I I «L • { w i Bvv t V “f ! . a Jt 88988 B fl ■* ,i 7’ ' HBBH , «- S /'r 1 ■ Bk Hj J|PH[ ’’*'7 i * ‘ K ” Bi B B W *of i mL *4 iii X^J m Dj|la v-- v II ■ W ‘ JBPf* • JTM wgy** M m bl \. * . , - , ♦ . v * *- c BL I ; ■ jB-C-J' *.x/ ' "BL i vNy •* 'mmem MR. AND MRS. FRIDAY, MARY HOWELL AND FRANCES Mrs. Friday Is a Home Builder II) Helene Ivey Although she is interested in community and international problems, Mrs. William C. Fri day is essentially a wife and! mother and home builder. Even her career fitted her for! this important role in life. Mrs ! ] Friday was a home economics! major at Meredith College and! after graduation she was 4 the home economist for the Carollina Power and Light Company in Raleigh. Later she took gradu ate work in Public Health at UNC and for three years taught in the Public Health Department here. Well balanced, beautifully served meals, and physical and; emotional health, are all taken' for granted in the Friday home. But all the expert knowledge of food, care of children, and artistic accomplishment only sup-^ $1 a Year in County; other rates on page 2 the University needs funds for maintaining faculty, funds for strengthening the libraries, and funds for at tracting competent new staff people. Mr, Friday, in his casual conversation and in his easy discussion of solid administrative topics affecting aca demic life, is quick to perceive diverse aspects of a situ ation and to compare and contrast desirable and less desirable courses of action. He is both humanist and scientist, and as one commentator put it he is the kind of man who can ‘‘humanize the scientist and simonize the humanists.” People who have known Bill Friday—faculty, legis lators, trustees, students, colleagues in the administra tion of the University—invariably mention fundamental qualities of his personality. He’s modest, without being shy or timid. He’s quiet spoken. but highly articulate, friendly and firm in what he says. He is a man of decision, as demonstrated by the several crucial questions that have faced the University and have been resolved since he became Acting Presi dent last March Ist. plement the loving care Mrs. Fri-I day gives her family. Quietly the baby, Mary Howell Friday, slept i in her arms. Later with genuine ! pleasure she welcomed her elder | daughter, Frances Howell Fri-| !day, home from kindergarten] jThen this young mother let her! child use her own pace in show iflg what had been accomplished in school that day. Chapel -Mill Cha(l By Louis Graves Not till last Saturday, when Mr. and Mrs. Carlos [Lowrance of Fort Bragg dropped in on us after the ( , did I learn i that Jtfb and I were together | at Lady Astor’s home in London one night in June of | 1919. j During the Armistice the \ Americans who had been in j France in the First World | War were scattered all over I Europe on leaves of absence jj — this was because of a scar city of ships to take them [jhome and I/ondon was 'swarming with them. Car ! los, on a four-months leave, f was attending London Uni \ versity. I was there in June [ to serve as cannon fodder in \ the early rounds of the ten- I nis tournament at Wimble don; or, you might say, as a ! guinea pig. Dean Mathey, 1 I my companion on leave, who had ranked high on the j I national list since leaving I Princeton, was a serious con- I tender. Lady Astor was giving a I series of weekly receptions I for the soldiers. (The word I soldiers in this piece means I both enlisted men and offi ! cers.) At each of these gath | erings there would be about l a couple of hundred men and Jahe would J»ave two or three FRIDAY ISSUE Next Issue Tuesday | Mrs. Friday’s attitude toward her own accomplishments was ! well demonstrated when she was asked about her art work. “Oh, | l'm just trying to learn about it." 'Later she admitted that she’d [printed the design on her dra peries “because I couldn’t find j any that were printed only around the edges.” Silk screening cloth and Christmas cards, sculp turing and flower arranging are among her “studies.” Her modes ty is endearing to say the least. Yet her results are beautiful. Once hi a while she and her husband play golf and more often they work in their yard. Mrs. F’riday has the student’s viewpoint when confronted by ■problems, yet she seems to have an innate sense of standards that enables her to make effective de cisions. Thus she radiates a posi tive, gracious personality. Mrs. F’riday is the former Miaa Ida Willis Howell of Lumberton. Active In Youth Activities One of the first volunteers for ! service in Little League Baseball in Chapel Hill was W. C. Friday. He was the local league’s first treasurer, and surrendered the job in the second year only be ' cause of pressing duties as Act ing President of the University. i celebrities for them to meet and talk with. On the night Dean Mathey and (as I now know) Carlos Lowrance and I were there the distin , guished guests were General i Pershing, Lord Reading (the ! British equivalent of our : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court), and Rudyard Kip ling. They were in genial, t jolly humor as they chatted ! with the soldiers clustered I around them. i Carlos and I were evident -ly together in the cluster - around Kipling, for. when ; we exchanged reminiscence* 1 last Saturday, we had the l (Continued on Pag* *) - '.,-4