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The SOHP Celebrates 25 Years (1999)
Jim Leloudis Gives
Remarks at the 25th
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"The Voices of the Past: Celebrating the First 25
Years of the Southern Oral History Program," a two-tiered event held at
UNC-CH on April 8, 1999, commemorated a quarter-decade's worth of work
accomplished since the university hired Jacquelyn Hall in 1973 to create
the South's first major oral history program. A public forum in Wilson
Library featured former and current SOHP students talking about their
work while also addressing such challenging issues in the field of oral
history as the impact of the interview process on interviewees and the
reluctance of minorities to give away their stories without the knowledge
of how the material might eventually be used. Presenters included Russ
Rymer, author of American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth and Money;
Bill Bamberger, co-author of Closing:
The Life and Death of an American Factory, accompanied by Robert
Riley, a former factory worker who was interviewed for the book; then-SOHP
associate director Spencie Love, author of One
Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew; and several
current SOHP associates discussing their contributions to the program's
"Listening for a Change: North Carolina
Communities in Transition" initiative.
The afternoon event was followed by a banquet at the Morehead Planetarium
that opened with a welcome from Jacquelyn Hall and a tape/slide presentation
on the history of the SOHP produced by Spencie Love and Leda Hartman.
Remarks were offered by Michael Hooker, then-Chancellor of UNC-CH; Betty
McCain, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources;
William Friday, Executive Director of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable
Trust; Jacquelyn Hall; and James Leloudis, then-Director of UNC-CH's Center
for the Study of the American South. Featured speaker William Ferris,
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, delivered the evening's
keynote address.
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