Hark the Sounds

Jack Hughes ’39 has seen a lot of history in his 101 years, including a front row seat at the D-Day invasion. Listen to the story of his assignment on the healing end of history’s largest naval invasion, in his own words.

Read more about Jack Hughes in the September/October ’21 issue of the Carolina Alumni Review: https://bit.ly/jack-hughes.

Timothy Beatley ’85 (MA, ’86 PhD) believes in the benefits of maximizing connections and contact with the natural world.

Because you can't go to the Smtih Center this season, we'll bring the Smith Center to you. Put on your lucky jersey and get ready to jump around.

It had been more than 50 years since they had walked off the basketball court as teammates, members of a squad that established Carolina as a perennial national title contender and started building Dean Smith’s legendary status as a coach. But it seemed as if it had been just last week listening to Jim Delany, retired commissioner of the Big 10 Conference; Eddie Fogler, longtime assistant to Smith and retired college head coach; and Charlie Scott, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame who played professionally before a career in business. Chatting on Zoom with a fellow member of the class of 1970, GAA President Doug Dibbert, the Carolina memories flowed as smoothly as Delany and Fogler’s assists to Scott back in the day.

In a life defined by her love of books, "The Night Before Christmas" holds a special meaning for Elinor Dixon Hawkins ’50 that extends well beyond the holiday season.

Read more about the amazing life of Elinor Hawkins in the November/December '20 issue of the Carolina Alumni Review: https://unc.live/3fy4biY

Elijah Heyward ’18 (PhD) has always been interested a richer, more complete American story. As COO of the International African American Museum, now rising on the Charleston waterfront, he’s getting the chance to build that narrative from the ground up.

In a career defined by covering foreign wars, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Zucchino ‘73 discovered the conflict that drives his third book closer to home. In 1898, white supremacists overthrew the multiracial government of Wilmington, N.C.

It remains the only coup d'état ever to take place on American soil.

For decades, American history textbooks wrongly cast the black victims as instigators, and the perpetrators as heroes. It took almost a century for the true story to come to light. Zucchino tells that story in the book Wilmington’s Lie.

(Please use headphones to listen to this episode for the full sonic experience.)

Immerse yourself in the sounds of a sunny summer day on campus as you take a brief, five-minute walk around the Southern Part of Heaven.

Everybody knows that Hinton James, Carolina's first student, walked to Chapel Hill from Wilmington...or did he? University Archivist Nicholas Graham '98 (MSLS) takes on the enduring campus legend.

Want more? Check out the Review's coverage of the first Hinton James Day, held during the University's Sesquicentennial in 1945: http://bit.ly/2uDmOPC

Acting on an impulse, Whitney Brown ’10 (MA) changed the course of her life. A Phi Beta Kappa perfectionist, intent on a career studying folklore, she turned down a promising job with the Smithsonian Institution and instead ran off to Wales to learn the ancient art of building dry-stone walls.

More about Whitney Brown: “A Perfect Fit,” in the January/February 2020 Carolina Alumni Review. https://unc.live/2QZ1PiF