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Chapel Hill - The Town of Eternal Love
by Charly Mann
Growing up in Chapel Hill in the 1950s and 1960s I came to believe that love is the most powerful force in existence. I saw firsthand what a propelling power it was.
A picture that defines pure love, from the University of North Carolina campus in the fall of 1961
Chapel Hill is a place where if you are careful and aware, you can meet the soul you were destined to blaze a trail together with through eternity. Fairytale love affairs really do happen in this town of eternal love.
Pat Hole from the UNC class of 1946. She was chosen by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall as the most beautiful girl in Chapel Hill that year.
This is Roxanne Kalb from 1965. She was a senior from Suffield, Connecticut. Her major was international studies. She was involved in a wide array of campus organizations and was also President of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority and was the Senior Class Social Chairman. Her hobbies included painting, swimming, and fishing.
Charlie Hoffmam, from the University of North Carolina class of 1926, a beautiful coed with my favorite name.
Mary Thom White UNC coed clearly going places from 1960
Love blooms on the UNC campus in 1943.
Sara Rose of the UNC class of 1953
Hometown Chapel Hill beauty Ditzi Bruce from 1941
Mary Ann Henderson UNC coed from 1962. She was then a senior majoring in studio art. Her plans were to go into fashion advertising after graduation, She was a member of Chi Omega sorority. Even though her home was in New Orleans, in 1961 she was named Miss Chapel Hill. She was active in the campus YWCA and her favorite pastimes were horseback riding and water skiing.
Comments:
Richard Harris
12:18 PM Sun 2/14/2010
My love for Chapel Hill and its women is indeed eternal. Keep up the good work.
Robbie Jackson
3:24 PM Sat 2/13/2010
I continue to be amazed at your incredible collection of Chapel Hill related photos. I especially enjoyed this overview of some of the town's sweethearts.
Andrew Nelson
10:11 AM Fri 2/12/2010
Beautiful photos. I have had a love affair with Chapel Hill since 1971 when I entered UNC as a freshman.
Ron Davis
1:33 PM Thu 2/11/2010
Lovely tribute. I like "the town of eternal love" better than the "the southern part of heaven." Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce will read your piece and make it official.
Steve Moore
9:27 AM Thu 2/11/2010
I have not been to Chapel Hill in twenty-five years, but looking at these beautiful women makes me recall what really made the town the Southern Part of Heaven.
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Chapel Hill is located on a hill whose only distinguishing feature in the 18th century was a small chapel on top called New Hope Chapel. This church was built in 1752 and is currently the location of The Carolina Inn. The town was founded in 1819, and chartered in 1851.
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well or the bell or the stone walls. or the crisp October nights. No, our love for this place is based upon the fact that it is as it was meant to be, The University of the People.
-- Charles Kuralt
Dark Side of the Hill -- Pink Floyd, the creators of the most popular album in history, Dark Side of the Moon, took the second half of their name from Floyd Council, a Chapel Hill native, and great blues singer and guitarist. He once belonged to a group called "The Chapel Hillbillies".
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There would probably be no Chapel Hill if the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in 1793 had not chosen land across from New Hope Chapel for the location of the university. By 1800 there were about 100 people living in thirty houses surrounding the campus.
The University North Carolina's first student was Hinton James, who enrolled in February, 1795. There is now a dormitory on the campus named in his honor.
The University of North Carolina was closed from 1870 to 1875 because of lack of state funding.
William Ackland left his art collection and $1.25 million to Duke University in 1940 on the condition that he would be buried in the art museum that the University was to build with his bequest. Duke rejected this condition even though members of the Duke Family are buried in Duke Chapel. What followed was a long and acrimonious legal battle between Ackland relatives who now wanted the inheritance, Rollins College, and the University of North Carolina, each attempting to receive the funds. The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and in 1949 UNC was awarded the money for the museum. Ackland is buried near the museum's entrance. When the museum first opened, in the early sixties, there were rumors that his remains were leaking out of the mausoleum.
The official name of the Arboretum on the University of North Carolina campus is the Coker Arboretum. It is named after Dr. William Cocker, the University's first botany professor. It occupies a little more than five acres. It was founded in 1903.
Chapel Hill's main street has always been called Franklin Street. It was named after Benjamin Franklin in the early 1790s.
Chapel Hill High School and Chapel Hill Junior High were on Franklin Street in the same location as University Square until the mid 1960s.
The Colonial Drug Store at 450 West Franklin Street was owned and operated by John Carswell. It was famous for a fresh-squeezed carbonated orange beverage called a "Big O". In the early 1970s, I managed the Record and Tape Center next door, and must have had over 100 of those drinks. The Colonial Drug Store closed in 1996.
Sutton's Drugstore, which opened in 1923, has one of the last soda fountains in the South. It is one of the few businesses remaining on Franklin Street that was in operation when I was growing up in the 1950s.
Future President Gerald Ford lived in Chapel Hill twice. First when he was 24, in 1938, he took a law couse in summer school at UNC. He lived in the Carr Building, which was a law school dormitory. At the same time, Richard Nixon, the man he served under as Vice President, was attending law school at Duke. In 1942, Ford returned to Chapel Hill to attend the U.S. Navy's Pre-Flight School training program. He lived in a rental house on Hidden Hills Drive.
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I believe the name of the young lady you captioned as "Ditzi Bruce" is "Ditzi Buice".