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Photographs, speeches, correspondence, awards and other items chiefly documenting William C. Friday's activities at or related to North Carolina State University, including his year as senior class president and honors as alumnus of the University's College of Textiles. Included in the collection are Friday's United States Navy uniform and his academic garb. William C. Friday served as president of the University of North Carolina System, 1956-1986. Friday served as chairman of numerous national panels including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the American Council on Education, President Johnson’s Task Force on Education, President Carter’s Task Force on Education, the American Council on Education and the Knight Foundation National Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Friday graduated from North Carolina State College in 1941 with a degree in textile engineering. At State College, he was sports editor of the student newspaper and president of the senior class. Friday served in the United States Naval Reserve during World War II and earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School in 1948. Less

This subgroup of the North Carolina State University Archives Photograph Collection includes approximately 600 copy negatives. The negatives depict a wide variety of subjects, with particular emphasis on the North Carolina State University campus and buildings, administrators and faculty, and athletics. There are also some negatives that depict the activities of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. North Carolina State University is a research-extensive, land grant institution located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts under the auspices of the federal Morrill Act of 1862, the school held its first classes in the fall of 1889. As of 2014, NC State is one of the seventeeen constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina system. Less