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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Robert and Alpha Wettach Papers #5711, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received as a donation from Jane Wettach in December 2016 (Acc. 102995).

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: Jodi Berkowitz, December 2016

Encoded by: Jodi Berkowitz, December 2016

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2020

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.

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• Kindergarten--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• United States--Navy.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law.
• Wettach, Alpha.
• Wettach, Robert.

• School of Law of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records (#40046)

Robert Wettach was Dean of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Its current building is partially named after him. His wife, Alpha Wettach, opened an experimental kindergarten school in Chapel Hill in 1929, which she operated until 1964.

The collection consists of scattered personal and professional papers of Robert and Alpha Wettach. It contains correspondence; personal daily journals of Robert Wettach; papers from Robert Wettach's service in the United States Navy, including flight logs; papers, photographs, and clippings documenting the kindergarten operated by Alpha Wettach in Chapel Hill, N.C.; a photograph album and travel diary documenting the Wettachs's 1910 trip to Europe; papers related to Robert Wettach's employment at the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the dedication of its building partially in his name; and ledgers.

• Photographs (PF-5711/1-6)