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Reed, Gibbons to be inducted into Fellowship of Southern Writers

Dr. John Shelton Reed, Kenan professor emeritus of sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill, will be among those inducted into the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers during the 2003 Chattanooga Arts and Education Council Conference on Southern Literature.

The conference is being held April 24-26 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Other inductees include Carolina alumna Kaye Gibbons. She and Reed will be joining such literary legends as Eudora Welty, Walker Percy and Cleanth Brooks as fellowship inductees.

Reed is former director of UNC’s Institute for Research in Social Science and taught at the university for 31 years. He is co-editor of Southern Cultures and a contributing writer for The Oxford American. His books include "The Enduring South, Southern Folk Plain and Fancy" and "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South." "Minding the South," a collection of essays and reviews, will be published in late 2003.

Gibbons has written novels such as "Ellen Foster, A Virtuous Woman," "A Cure for Dreams," "Charms for the Easy Life," "Sights Unseen," "On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon" and "The Rose Window," due out soon. Her honors include the Sue Kaufman Prize and a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation.

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Slavic linguist receives national award

Dr. Laura Janda, professor of Slavic linguistics at UNC, has been selected for the Dr. A. Ronald Walton Award for "a career of distinguished service" by the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, a professional association for scholars of languages other than French, German and

Spanish. She will receive the award and present a lecture May 2 at the organization’s conference being held at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Janda is co-director of the Duke-UNC Slavic and East European Languages Resource Center and former director of UNC’s Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. She teaches classes in Russian and Czech languages and linguistics and joined the UNC faculty in 1991.

Janda was nominated for the award by the International Association of Teachers of Czech. Walton is the late co-founder of council and founding deputy director of the National Foreign Language Center.

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Award-winning photographer Bangham to speak Tuesday (April 22) at UNC

Photography connoisseurs, photographers and people who love to view and discuss great pictures are invited to PhotoNight Tuesday (April 22) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bill Bangham, who edits an award-winning magazine, theCommission, for the International Mission Board, will speak and display work from the publication at the free public program, from 7-9 p.m. in 33 Carroll Hall. Parking will be free at the corner of McCauley and Pittsboro streets and behind Nash Hall on Pittsboro.

Under Bangham’s leadership, theCommission won third place in the "Best Use of Photography: Magazine" category in this year’s National Press Photographers Association contest, said Pat Davison, UNC assistant professor of photojournalism. The magazine also placed second for "best use of photography" in the 2001 Pictures of the Year contest sponsored by the University of Missouri.

The International Mission Board, based in Richmond, Va., is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination. theCommission covers its international Christian missions.

The UNC student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association, based in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, sponsors PhotoNight monthly during the academic year.

"PhotoNight is an opportunity for students and professionals to come together and share their work," Davison said. "The evening is designed to give photographers a chance to learn from each other and develop their style."

For more information, contact Davison at 962-4073 or pdavison@email.unc.edu.

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