George Kennedy at Chapel Hill, 1966–76

Edited by Ward Briggs

Abstract

George Kennedy was an accomplished scholar and leader of national classics and humanities associations. He was an extremely effective chairman of the Classics Department at the University of North Carolina, who substantially raised the quality of its faculty and students. In this memoir he describes the department as he found it in 1966 with sketches of the faculty in place and those he subsequently hired. He also describes both the honorary and everyday duties that he was obliged to perform.