Three midhallway
lounges take departures from the photos of individual people. This lounge has
a representative picture of each of
Carolina’s national
champion athletics
teams.
Griffith ’ 49 got his first notice and his first
recording contract after delivering his football monologue here one night. Its walls
echo with trustees’ decisions, Golden
Fleece and Morehead Scholar banquets,
and with all the business deals and wedding
nights in its dining rooms and suites.
“It was also sort of the social center of
town,” said William Friday ’ 48 (LLB),
“when Chapel Hill was a much smaller
place. It was where you came to eat and to
see people.”
Danny MacNelly has a rather obvious
attachment to this project. “The thing we
tried to do was to connect the inn back to
the University as much as possible,” he
said. “I guess your average student doesn’t
know the University owns the inn.
‘The inn had
no what we
call “brand,” ’
Zogry says,
and UNC
history was
a natural
theme.
