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

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Morgan P. Moorer, ' 33 Aubrev L. Brooks, ' 33 William G. Roberts, ' 33 1913-1930 19121932 1913-1933 James Finch Royster. Ph.D., LL.D. 1881-1930 William Cain, A.M., LL.D., Sc.D. 1847-1930 Gustave Maurice Braune, C.E. 1872-1930 Edward Vernon Howell, A.B., Ph.G. 1872-1931 Edwin Anderson Alderman, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D. 1861-1931 •Jefferson Carney Bynum, S.M. George Tavloe Winston, B.Litt., 1852-1932 Eugene Cunningham Bran:

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DEDICATION To Mrs. Jessie Kenan Wise Lineal daughter of the eighteenth cen- tury donor of University grounds, generous benefactor of the University in a recent crisis, and modest friend of mankind, this yearbook of the Class of Nineteen Thirty-three is gratefully and affectionately dedicated. Jessie Kenan Wise was born in Kenansville, North Carolina, the daughter , ,.,.,,- ' o i ix .£ 1 ,-.,;IU ™A Mnrw 4nrnm ip nf Chnne Hi of William Kand K.enan ot i enansvine, ana viury nuiymvc u. ..u , ...... The Hargrove family gave much of the land upon which the University now stands and contributed in many ways to the life of the institution. The Kenan family has had historic continuous, and beneficent association with this University. I his daughter of ' the University on both sides has lived her life and done her work in this State— first in Kenansville, the family home, and then in Wilmington her present home She attended both Peace Institute and St. Mary s School. In 1 931 she was elected by the Legislature a trustee of the University of North Carolina. In 1932 when the 30 per cent cut of the University appropriation, already reduced 20 per cent from the 1929 peak, was announced in the middle of the fiscal year it was a modest woman who quietly came and stood beside her lineal and spiritual Alma Mater Many members of the faculty were in the midst of the pull ot calls to other institutions in many parts of the country. Hundreds of students were cauaht between bankrupt homes and exhausted loan funds here. The students, faculty townspeople, alumni, and friends rallied to the University with their meager financial resources and their great reserves of spiritual power Two hundred thousand dollars had suddenly dropped out of the budget and hundreds of .students were unable to pay their bills and might drop out of college. A quiet, modest little woman stepped into the situation, unannounced, with the establishment of anew loan fund by a gift of securities and, a little later, a cash check for $2b,UUU. d ' - New loans were made to hundreds of students. The students stayed to continue their education and with the help of the new loan fund, which grew to be $110,000, they came back this year. - The students of this generation will always cherish . V the fellowship of these years and these strug- gles. Precious among their memo ' ries will be the spirit of the woman to whom this book is dedicated.

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