University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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The University of North Carolina Chartered in 1789 bv the (jeneral Assembly of North Carolina Colors: Light Bkie and White. Ch eers Yackety Vack! H ' Hay! H ' Rayl Yackoty Vack! H ' Kay! H ' Hay Carolina ' Varsity! ] ooni Rah! Boom Kah! Car-o-li-na! Boom Rah Ray ! Boom Rah Ray ! Carolina ' Varsity ! Ssi3ss ! Boom ! Tar Heel! Unix ' ersity Officers President, Supervisor of the Lihrari . Librarian. Registrar, Bursar, Treasure]-, Supervisor of Grounds. Francis Pre stox N ' KXAiii.i:, Ph.D. EiiEX Alexander. Ph.D.. LL.D. Louis Rouxd Wilson, A.B. Charles Thomas Woollen. Willie Thomas Patterson. Richard Hexry Battle, LL.D. .John Franklix Pickard.

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Sketch of Col. Kenan Thomas Stephen Kenan was horn near Kenansville, in DupUn County, North Carohna, on the twelfth day of February. 1838. His preparation for college was gotten at the Grove Academy at Kenansville. under Rev. James M. Sprunt. He took the Freshman course at Wake Forest College, but the following year, 1854, he entered the Sophomore Class at the Fnivcrsity of North Carolina, and graduated with the elas.s of 18.57, For two years after graduation he attended Judge Pearson ' s Law School at Rich- mond Hill. He received his County Court license in December, 1858, and his Su- perior Court Ucense in December, 18.59, and entered innnediatcly upon the practice of law in Kenansville. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, a company of volunteers, the Duplin Ri- fles, was promptly organized, with Mr. Kenan as captain. This company was mus- tered into service for si.x months; at the expiration of that time it was reorganized and assigned to the 4.3rd Regiment of State Troojis, antl Captain Kenan was elected to the colonelcy of this regiment. He served until the Battle of Gettysburg; here he was wounded and captured, and was kept a prisoner of war until hostilities ceased. Since the war, Colonel Kenan has been almost constantly in public life, in the service of his State. He was member of the then House of Conunons from Duplin in 1865-66, and in 1866-67. In 1868 he was candidate for Congress. In this same year he married Miss Sallie Dortch, of Abertlcen, Mississipi)i. He changed his resi- dence to Wilson, N. C. in 1869. For two terms he was Attorney-CJeneral of North Carolina, from 1876 to 1885. At the jiresent time he is Clerk of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. A man of broad culture and scholarly attainments, and a speaker of rare force. Colonel Kenan is reckoned among the highest in the legal profession in the State. He has at the same time a charm of maimer which gains him wide popularity. His love for the I ' niversity has always been prominent ; there are few under- takings for her advancement in which his influence is not felt. For many years he has been a trustee of the University. His election to the Presidency of the General Association of the Alumni of the University is an indication of the esteem in which lie is held as an ahnnnus.

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Facts About the Historv of the University of North Carolina, Which Students and Alumni Ought to Know liV KKMP 1 ' . BATTLE, ' 49. HK jjatriots of 1776. in the darkest period of the HevMlution. in the constitution of the new state commanileil the ' .cneral Assembly to establish the I ' niversitx . The charter was grantetl in 1780. The chief agent in i rocurinfr the chartei ' . and .startinu ' the in- stitution on its career was William Richardson i)a ie. a iirachi- )f Princeton, a dashing cavahy officer in the Revolution. Coni- ai -general under (Jreene. a member of the Federal Constitutional I ' ention of 1787. Governor of the State. HrigatUer-general ofthel ' nited jf ! States in the contemplated war with France, sjiecial minister to France to avert that war. an able lawyer and eloquent orator. tlie l atiiii ' nf tiie University. The coiuity of Davie and the Davie Poplar are his only luonuiuonts in Xorth Carohna. The first named in the charter was Sanuiel Johnston, then Governor. The first meeting of the trustees was in Fayetteville, December 18th. 1780. The chairman was Charles John.son. who had fotight for the Pretender at Culloden. This meeting .started sul scri]3tion papers for rai.sing money to erect buildings. The largest sulj.scribers were Alfred Moore, afterwards Federal .Judge, and William Cain, ancestor of our Profes.sor of Mathematics, $200 each. The first President of the Board elected Xoveniber loth. 17 ' .)(). was William Renoir, a hero of King ' s Mountain, then speaker of the Senate. He vias the last sur i or of the Charter trustees, dying in 1838. The first benefactor was Benjamin Smith, afterwartls Governoi-, who i:a c |)at- ents for 20,000 acres of land to be located in We.st Tenne.ssee. then in the po. session of the Chickasaw Indians. Their claim was afterwards extinguished and in 1S35 tlie lands having been much injured liy the earth(|uake of 1812. were sold for S14.000. Smith Hall (our library). Smith Island, and Smithville (now Southport ' were named in his honor. By a vote of the Trustees, the L ' niversity was to be located within fifteen miles of C ' yprett ' s (now Prince ' .s) Bridge over New Hope, or the road from Raleigh to Pittsb jro.