A Thousand Words
By Jock Lauterer
Surely, anyone who has been on the UNC campus recently has marveled at the giant expanse of protective plastic sheeting completely covering Battle-Vance-Pettigrew halls as workers renovate the roof and exterior of those administrative buildings. Looking at the spectacle makes me recall a “BVP†photo from another day, of a soon-to-be graduate Joe DePriest, class of ’67, perched on the fire escape back in the day, when these were men’s dorms. Joe would go on to serve in the Army as a reporter-photographer in Vietnam, 1968-’69, returning to work at the Charlotte Observer’s Gaston County bureau, where, the last I heard, my classmate is still holding forth as a much-beloved columnist.
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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