UNC a to Z by Nicholas Graham

Author:Nicholas Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2020-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Kenan Stadium, ca. 1930s. Durwood Barbour Postcard Collection, North Carolina Collection Photo Archives, Wilson Library.

The university’s annual spring commencement has been held in Kenan Stadium since the 1930s. It has hosted speeches by U.S. presidents (John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Bill Clinton in 1993) and major concerts, including U2 in 1983 and Bruce Springsteen in 2003.

Kenan Theatre. See Gillings Center for Dramatic Art

Kerr Hall was dedicated in 2002 as a teaching and research building at the School of Pharmacy. The building is named for School of Pharmacy alumnus Banks Kerr, who donated $2 million toward its construction. After graduating from UNC, Kerr opened a drugstore in Raleigh, the beginning of a successful statewide chain of stores. At its peak, there were ninety-seven Kerr Drug stores.

Kessing Pool is the university’s outdoor swimming pool. It was originally built for use by navy cadets attending the pre-flight school at UNC, one of five U.S. Navy pre-flight schools established across the country during World War II. The pool is named for Oliver Owen Kessing, who was the first commanding officer of the campus pre-flight school. The swimming pools on campus were among many spaces on campus that remained segregated when the first African American students enrolled in the early 1950s. In an oral history interview, Floyd McKissick, one of the first African American students to attend UNC when he entered the law school in 1951, remembered the swimming pools: “There were some incidents of some of the kids [going] to the swimming pool to swim and they wouldn’t let them in, and I told them this pool was going to get integrated today, and I just went on and jumped into the pool. After I jumped into the pool, I walked on out and nobody said anything to me and I said nothing to anybody else. I said, ‘It’s integrated now.’”

Knapp-Sanders Building. Located on the eastern edge of campus at Country Club and Raleigh Roads, Knapp-Sanders the home of the School of Government. The building was completed in 1956, funded through a gift from the Knapp Foundation and from a legislative appropriation.

The building is home to a series of large historic murals by artist Frances Vandeveer Kughle. Painted in the style of earlier WPA (Works Progress Administration) murals, the fourteen works, installed in 1960, depict scenes from North Carolina history. After many years of hearing criticisms that the murals overlooked or misinterpreted significant aspects of state history, the School of Government removed many of the murals and arranged to have a new mural painted that would recognize major figures and events from North Carolina African American history. This new mural was installed in 2010.

Joseph Palmer Knapp was a publisher, financier, philanthropist, and conservationist who came to know the state through a vacation home in Currituck County along the North Carolina coast. He became involved in helping local government leaders on improvement projects, which led him to extend his philanthropy to the government and schools of the county. His recognition that public officials needed

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