CAROLINA ALUMNI REVIEW NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 $9 ND2020_CAR.indd 1 10/28/2020 10:57:57 AM ND2020_CAR.indd 2 10/28/2020 10:59:26 AM ON THE COVER: A majestic maple tree shows off its colors in front of Wilson Hall just off South Road. In the background is the Phi Delta Theta house on Columbia Street. FEATURES | VOL. 109, NO. 6 PHOTO: UNC/CRAIG MARIMPIETRI UNC/JON GARDINER ’98 Science Project 36 Just a planetarium? A Morehead dream that started decades ago is coming to reality: The grand building will showcase all of UNC’s sciences. BY DAVID E. BROWN ’75 Franklin in Hibernation 42 Of course we’re staying home. We’re eating in. We’re mastering self-entertainment. But you sort of have to see The Street in pandemic to believe it. ▲ ▼ ALEX KORMANN ’19 GRANT HALVERSON ’93 PHOTOS BY ALEX KORMANN ’19 AND GRANT HALVERSON ’93 Stateside Study Abroad 52 Zoom has its tiresome limitations. Not as obvious are new possibilities — such as rethinking a writing class as an adventure on the other side of the world. BY ELIZABETH LELAND ’76 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER ’20 1 ND2020_CAR.indd 1 10/28/2020 12:13:14 PM GAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2020–21 OFFICERS Jill Silverstein Gammon ’70, Raleigh .......................Chair J. Rich Leonard ’71, Raleigh ...............Immediate Past Chair Dana E. Simpson ’96, Raleigh ........................Chair-Elect Jan Rowe Capps ’75, Chapel Hill .................First Vice Chair Mary A. Adams Cooper ’12, Nashville, Tenn. Second Vice Chair Dwight M. “Davy” Davidson III ’77, Greensboro . Treasurer Wade M. Smith ’60, Raleigh .............................Counsel Douglas S. Dibbert ’70, Chapel Hill .....................President TAR HEEL NETWORK CHAIR Thomas W. Lambeth ’57 .........................Winston–Salem DIRECTORS APPOINTED AT LARGE Alexa Smith Aycock ’66 (2021) .......................Greensboro James M. Deal Jr. ’74 (JD) (2022) .........................Boone Pamela Hicks Ferguson ’80 (2023) .....................New York Russell B. Holderness ’72 (2023) ........................Tarboro Paul R. Newton ’82 (2021) .......................Mount Pleasant Robert T. Reives II ’92 (2022) ...........................Sanford ELECTED TO REPRESENT NORTH CAROLINA ALUMNI Patrick J. Ballantine ’87 (2023) ......................Wilmington W. Lowry Caudill ’79 (2022) ............................Durham Lisa McNew Chapman ’82 (2021) ........................Sanford Zach S. Clayton ’07 (2021) ...............................Raleigh Veronica Mora Flaspoehler ’08 (2023) ..............Huntersville Phillip L. McAlpin ’75 (2021) ........................Greensboro Donna Curtis McClatchey ’93 (2023) .....................Raleigh Robert M. Selden III ’94 (2023) ........................Charlotte Paula Brown Stafford ’86 (2022) .....................Chapel Hill Ginger Golding Wilkins ’82 (2022) ..........................King ELECTED TO REPRESENT OUT-OF-STATE ALUMNI Judith Hippler Bello ’71 (2021) ......................McLean, Va. Benjamin Boykin II ’72 (2023) .................White Plains, N.Y. Dr. Robert L. Ferris ’90 (2023) ....................Pittsburgh, Pa. Whitney C. Frye ’07 (2022) ...............Colorado Springs, Colo. Samuel L. Fulwood III ’78 (2023) ...............Washington, D.C. David B. Kirk ’79 (2022) ..........................Park Ridge, Ill. W. H. “Joe” Knight Jr. ’76 (2021) ..........................Seattle Beverly Holland “Holly” Pritchard ’73 (2022) .............Atlanta Michael P. Vandenbergh ’83 (2021) ..............Nashville, Tenn. PRESIDENTS OF SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS (EX OFFICIO) Amy Wheeler Hunt ’91 (DDS), Dentistry ............Rocky Mount Amy M. Rickard ’94 (’00 MSA), Education ...........Chapel Hill Joseph M. Moore II ’05 (MPA), Government ............Zebulon Sarah Whitley Carrier ’08 (MSIS), Info. & Library Sci.. Raleigh Karen Ann Popp ’85 (JD), Law ........................Chapel Hill Jeremy C. Spearman ’11, Journalism & Media ............Raleigh Wesley C. Fowler III ’88, Medicine .....................Asheville Ashley Leak Bryant ’11 (PhD), Nursing ...................Durham Jeffrey S. New ’02 (PD), Pharmacy .......................Raleigh Joanna Jordan Conley ’03, Public Health . Nashville, Tenn. Kristen Irene Register Lakis ’12 (MSW), Social Work . Durham ATHLETIC COUNCIL (ELECTED AT-LARGE) Algernon D. “Alge” Crumpler ’00 (2022) ............Suwanee, Ga. Dave Hanners ’76 (2021) ............................Chapel Hill Meghan Elizabeth Lyons ’13 (2023) ...........Charlottesville, Va. EX-OFFICIO, REPRESENTING THE FACULTY Susan Harrell Irons ’80 (MA, ’01 PhD) (2021) . Chapel Hill EX-OFFICIO, REPRESENTING THE STUDENT BODY E. 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