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In he presence of my, ends and rmer coeagues, Dr. Wam Braney Aycock Chancelor Emertus of The Unversiy of North Carona at Chape Hi, was presented a Specia Noth Caroana Society Award at a ceremony hed in he George Watts Hl Alumn Center on 22 March 2007.  The atured speaker, Dr. Judith W. Wegner, rmer Dean of the UNC School of Law, descbed he remarkabe career of the Wlson Count nave who gew up in Sema Her address traced Dr Aycock's iustrious career as a gh schoo teacher, decorated Wod War II ocer, and unversit professor and chancelor She especialy emphasized Dr Aycocks roe as a defender of ee speech dung his chanceorship om 195 to 964.  The ceremony was specl r a n attendance but t was exceponay meanng to Wiam C. Frday, John R Jordan, Jr and J Dickson Pps, Jr, who wth Aycock and the ate Wlam A Dees, Jr., constituted a cose-knt study quntet during their stdent days in he UNC Schoo of Law. Dees, he rst chairman of the UNC Board of Governors, ded ast year The sig ur were present and their outstandig seices to the universi and the state are described n Dr. Aycocks acceptance speech.  The North Carolnana Socety is happy to presere the record of the occasion  the rthrd number of our mted edton

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Judith Welh Wegner

It is ndeed an honor and a priege to be with you today as the Norh Caronana Societ honors Wiam Braney Aycock  The North Caronana Socet is tsef wort honorng r its eorts to promote  increased knowedge and appreciation of North Caronas hetage through  its encouragement of schoay research writng and teachng reated to he States stor and terature. B Aycock is among many other things a schoar of hstor Bs own devoton to understandng history, we aso making hstory makes todays trbute a partcuary meanng one r al concerned Im sure hat B woud say, wth John W Gardner that history never ooks ike story  when yo are ng hrogh t" Im ad however hat today we can ook at e big pcture and appreciate how ths extraordna man made hstor that  is cherished by us a. As I ook out at ts audence, I ar that I am but an amateur storian charged wth speang on our coectve behaf about the many contribuons B Aycock has made in s 90sometng years as a Tar Hee born and a Tar Hee bred Te task is an even taer one because Bls fe is so intertned with the i of our beoved nversit and ama mater over neary a centus span Wa Catherirna born and Nebraska bredwrote that The hsto of ever count bes in the heart of a man or a woman I  t n the next few nutes to reach to the heart of he matter tacng Bs heartt devoton to learnng and to tth and hs roe as a champion of tose  vaues over the years

Commitmen o Leaing

Bill s eaed Hes also an exceponal teacher whose skills have endowed generaons ofaw sudents wi insghts about the Rue in Sheeys Case, he compexity of federa courts, and the pers of unr trade pracces What sets B apart om many oher esteemed cuy are s deeper insights about earnng and he ways he has emboied a comment to earnng throughout hs fe Bil understands that earnng, and he earner are the pont raer tan the ego of te teacher or the words cong rth om her mouth He aso understands that the nare and signcance of earning s not easy quaned. As Wiam Buter Yeats so wsey stated, Educaon is not he