Basketball Museum
Preserves a Tradition
What a glorious idea for Carolina fans to
be able to relive the memorable moments of
Carolina basketball (“Basketball Museum
Puts Fans Into the Game,” March/April
Review). I’ve been
following the Tar
Heels since the
1960s, when Coach
Dean Smith first
launched the coveted
family-oriented insti-
tution of UNC bas-
ketball. At last we
have a special sanc-
tum where we may go to witness a rare and
wonderful collection of sports memorabilia
from Carolina’s championship days. This
museum is a fitting tribute to the coaches,
players, trainers, cheerleaders and other family members who have carried on the
model program of Tar Heel basketball. Let
the grand tradition continue…
Richard G. Benton ’ 70
Bakersville
Celebrating Black Pioneers
And Pioneers For Integration
As a UNC student in the late 1940s and
early 1950s, I found your articles in the
January/February issue of the Review
regarding the Black Alumni Reunion of
special interest. There were no black students when I attended Carolina, so I found
it quite remarkable that 14,000 black students have enrolled since that time.
My purpose in writing this letter is to
remind your readers of some of the white
integration pioneers at the University who
promoted social equality between the
races: Frank Porter Graham (class of 1909),
Howard Odum, Phillips Russell (class of
1904) and Paul Green ’ 21. I believe all
were members of Rev. Charlie Jones’ Presbyterian Church.
My wife, Betty Buell Baldwin ’ 49, and I
were married in Charlie Jones’ Presbyterian
Church in spring 1951. I suggest that the
Review publish a story about Rev. Jones’
remarkable career if you haven’t already
done so. He hosted the first integrated
meetings in Chapel Hill, and what was his
reward? He was accused of heresy by the
The Library
is the Heart of
the University
When I was a student in the early
80s, UNC libraries supplied the
lifeblood of my intellectual
growth. Now that I am twenty years into
a professorship at UNC, that lifeblood
infuses everything I do, from conducting
research on the world of Shakespeare
and Milton to teaching today’s students
to understand and even to love that
world. In the classroom, we must
demand that our students tackle
original research questions. My students
tell me that without library resources,
their research would not be possible.
The rising cost of print and electronic
library resources makes private support
critical. The library is the heart of
the University of North Carolina.
Won’t you help us protect our heart?
REID BARBOUR ’ 82
Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Term Professor of English
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