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

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I I OeMcftWott LESLIE WEIL: born in Goldsboro June 29. 1876. son of a mother whose home was a school for citizenship and whose life is quiet, unceasing service, and of a father whose individual abilitv helped to build a business and whose public spirit helped to build a city, he has grown into the life of liis ((innnercial, religious and civic community. As a member of the firm of H. Weil Brother he has helped to build a business which is both a c ommercial asset and a civic agency. As a member and president of the Hebrew Congregation he has helped to make a live synagogue a social institution. As a citizen of Goldsboro he has been a part of every movement for the public good. In business, religious and civic citizenship he exemplifies in his fine, self-effacing way the University man in the community. Just as his L ' niversity spirit carries him into the whole life of his community, so the momentum of his community life carries him into the life of the University as an agency of the Commonwealth. As Trustee since 1915, member of the Finance Committee of the Trustees since 1920 and of the Executive Committee since 192.3, he has given himself without reserve to the University — in small details and in large policies, in the routine of her every day and in the crises of her history. As Alumnus, in the capacity of member of the Graham Memorial Committee, director of the Alumni Association, incorporator of the University Press, Chairman of the Alumni Loyalty Fund Council, and participant in the Weil Lecture Foundation in American Citizenship, his love of Alma Mater has been not so much a phrase on his lips as a fact in his life. It is not merely his contacts and achievements as merchant and citizen, alumnus and trustee, but the qualities of the man shining through them all which moves this dedication from Alma Mater to Leslie Weil. She never called him that he did not come. m s