Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the American Cancer Society, North Carolina Division President's Files, #3542, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from storage in South Building, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 1961.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• American Cancer Society. North Carolina Division.
• Cancer--North Carolina--Societies, etc.
• Friday, William C. (William Clyde)
• North Carolina--Societies, etc.

The American Cancer Society is a non-profit organization involved in cancer research, education, advocacy, and service. William Clyde "Bill"Friday acted as president of the North Carolina Division of the organization in the mid-1950s. Friday was later the president of the University of North Carolina, 1956-1986.

The collection includes office files of William Clyde Friday, consisting of correspondence, reports, lists, by-laws, budgets, surveys, and other papers relating to the organization and program of the society.