Add my endorsement to former UNC
System President William Friday’s [’ 48
(LLB)] comments on the proposed raise of
17 percent, or $291,000, from $1,686,000
to $1,977,000 for football Coach Davis,
who has just finished the first year of a
seven-year contract with a losing season.
There appears to be no logical reason for
this decision.
Davis’ contract already calls for incentive bonuses for performance and for
player graduation rates plus an additional
retention bonus of $500,000 after five
years and another $600,000 at the end of
seven. Wait for the results both on the
field and in the classrooms.
The original contract’s design is to
“win on the field and increase the graduations rates.” Davis agreed in that contract
“to prove his and his players’ efforts and
worth,” just as is required of UNC’s faculty for tenure and students for graduation.
This decision to raise Davis $291,000
on top of a current $1,686,000 can affect
the important faculty morale; future financial support to the Rams Club, which
contributes $1 million annually to Davis;
not to mention UNC students’ reasoning
on rewarding performance in the real
world.
This precedent sets a poor example. It
appears the athletics director feared losing
a football coach making $1,686,000 so he
rushed to give a raise of 17 percent for a
losing season.
Lewis Arnold Brown ’ 53
Montgomery, Texas
A War-Era Introduction
And Lifelong Memories
Thank you for the wonderful memorial obituary for
Harvey J. Weinstein
’ 48 in the September/October issue.
Harvey and I
were pledgemates at
Tau Epsilon Phi in
1942 and roomed
together in our
freshman year. In
May 1943, the University advised us that
we would have to vacate the fraternity
house, as the Navy required it for their
trainees. There were only 23 of us left at
the time, and we were all leaving to go
into some branch of the service. We
decided to have a last party in New York
and all took the train to the city. Upon
arriving, I called Harvey and was told
there would be a party at his home that
evening for all of the fraternity brothers
and to bring a date. It was my first visit to
New York and knew no one, so he told
me that he would get me a blind date.
That blind date and I met again almost
four years later and now have been married
almost 62 years — all thanks to Harvey.
He was truly a war hero, but he was
my personal hero and dearest friend.
Leonard A. Meyer ’ 46
Atlanta
Correction
Hobson Brown’ 97, author of Miss
Educated: An Upper Class Novel, was
incorrectly identified with his father’s
1964 graduation date in the Books section
of the November/December issue of the
Review.
“So I’m not insured for a few
months. What could happen?”
