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Snow Day 1963

Posted on December 23, 2010December 27, 2010 by Staff

A Thousand Words
By Jock Lauterer


It’s not that we didn’t love school – but what better surprise for a kid than to wake up to an impromptu vacation? Or better yet, to see the white stuff start pouring out of the sky during a school day, forcing school officials to send us home? On such a snow day back in March 1962, I stationed myself outside old Chapel Hill High School’s front door (today, about the location of Time Out in University Square) to snap two CHHSers (that’s Rodney Burns of Carrboro on the right) leaping for freedom.

A THOUSAND WORDS
Do you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.
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