Tagged: UNC-TV

Education
4:15 pm
Wed October 17, 2012

Longtime UNC President Friday Memorialized

Bill Friday
Credit UNC Chapel Hill
Bill Friday

More than a thousand people gathered today in Memorial Hall on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill to remember Bill Friday. The longtime UNC system president and TV show host died last week at the age of 92.

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Education
1:41 pm
Fri October 12, 2012

Remembering Bill Friday

Bill Friday
Credit UNC-Chapel Hill
Bill Friday

Former UNC system president Bill Friday has died. Friday passed away in his sleep this morning at his home in Chapel Hill. He was 92 years old. Friday was president of UNC for 30 years, and steered it through desegregation, unprecedented growth, and numerous political battles. He also hosted more than 18-hundred episodes of North Carolina People on UNC-TV.  Dave DeWitt has this remembrance of one of the most important and most visible North Carolinians of his time.

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