Carolina Alumni Review - May/June 2012

FRIENDS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
What’s in your

attic?

Personal treasures like photo albums, letters, and diaries tell our individual stories. These keepsakes also tell the stories of our communities. To preserve North Carolina’s shared heritage, it is vital to save materials like these for future generations.

The Southern Historical Collection in Wilson Library invites you to share your family’s story by participating in the North Carolina African-American Family Documentation Initiative. Our goals are to save archival materials related to African-American families, facilitate access to these materials, and introduce the people of North Carolina to these rich resources through exhibits, programs, and workshops.

You can help: • Place family documents in the archive • Tell others about the Initiative • Make a donation ( http://giving.unc.edu/gift/lib)

For more information, please contact: Holly Smith, Southern Historical Collection, hasmith@email.unc.edu, (919) 962-1345, http://library.unc.edu/blogs/afam/

off somewhere. There is, after all, a space
constraint.”
There are a few exceptions, such as the
way athletics is handled — a lounge
between hallways is hung with a photo
representing every national championship
team. (Three other lounges are devoted to
Carolina “firsts,” musicians and actors.)

The photos of notable people, mostly portraits but some candid, are found in the guest room hallways. The displays are arranged by academic discipline: social sciences, law, education and social work, health and medicine, journalism and com-