Dialectic Society Confers Memberships

 

The Chapel Hill Newspaper, May 13, 1976

 

The Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies at the University have conferred honorary membership status on 14 North Carolina citizens.

 

The Dialectic and Philanthropic Society, which were started in 1795, are the oldest student organizations in the South.

 

New honorary members of the Dialectic Society are: Katherine K. Carmicheal, UNC Associate Dean of Student Affairs; Dr. H.G. Jones, director of the North Carolina Collection at UNC; Dr. E.M. Adams, chairman of the UNC Faculty Council; Dean E. Smith, UNC basketball coach; Sara Elizabeth Moore, Administrative secretary of the UNC computer science department; Mebane Pritchett, director of the john Motley Morehead Foundation, and William E. Hipp III, sculptor.

 

The Philanthropic Society conferred honorary status to: William S. Powell of the UNC history department; Thomas J. White, former state senator and member of the UNC Board of Governors; Dr. Claiborne S. Jones, UNC Chancellor for Business and Finance; Hon. Edwin S. Gill, state treasurer; Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. chairman of the UNC computer science department; Gladys Coates, historian of University art; and the Hon Susie M. Sharp, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.