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VOLUME 00, NUMBER 1
January 2012
Anniversaries Highlight Annual Meeting of North Carolina
Literary and Historical Association
On Friday, November 18, members of the North Carolina Literary and Historical
Association (NCLHA) and the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies
(FNCHS) convened in Raleigh for their annual meetings. The day started in the Archives
and History/State Library Building with a morning workshop sponsored by the FNCHS
entitled, “Researching Our Industrial Past.” Leading that seminar was Bob Crowley of the
North Carolina Railway Museum in New Hill. Afterwards Laura Ketcham of the Office
of Archives and History led a board meeting of the FNCHS.
The remainder of the day’s events took place at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel. Barbara
Rowe, chair of the FNCHS, welcomed about fifty people to the afternoon session of the
gathering, dedicated to “Anniversaries.” The first order of business in the afternoon, as
usual, was the presentation of the 2011 Student Publication Awards, presided over by John
Batchelor of Greensboro. In the high school division, first place went to Myers Park High
School of Charlotte for Pegasus ; second place to Providence High School of Charlotte for
Roars ami Whispers; and third place to Arendell Parrott Academy of Kinston for Spectrum ,
an all-grades publication. Among middle schools, only a single, first place award was pre¬
sented, that to Illusions from Martin Middle School of Raleigh. Students and teachers from
Myers Park, Arendell Parrott, and Martin were present to receive their awards.
On behalf of the Historical Society of North Carolina, Joe A. Mobley presented the
R. D. W. Connor Award in recognition of the best article to appear in the North Carolina
Historical Review ( NCHR ) in the preceding year. The winner was Charles W. McKinney
Jr. of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, for “Multiple Fronts: The Struggle for
Black Educational and Political Equality in Wilson, North Carolina, 1941—1953,” which
appeared in the January 2011 issue of the NCHR. The winner of the Hugh T. Lefler
Award for the best paper written by an undergraduate student was Walker Elliot, a
first-year graduate student at the University of Michigan, who, while a student at Chapel
Hill, completed an honors thesis, “Slipping in the Back Door: Lumbee Indian Access to
Higher Education in the Jim Crow South.” He was unable to attend.
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Award for Juvenile Litera¬
ture, presented annually since 1953, went to Gloria Houston tor Miss Dorothy and Her
