Governor Sanford brings higher education to the remote areas of North Carolina
Herring remembers Governor Terry Sanford as someone who brought higher education to the remote areas of North Carolina.
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Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987. Interview C-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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You want to hear about
Sanford and the succeeding governors, I believe.
- JAY JENKINS:
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Yes. Just sort of a brief…
- WILLIAM DALLAS HERRING:
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Well, you know from your own experience how grateful I am to Sanford for
what he achieved. He opened the door for the rank and file people for
education beyond the high school. He opened the door for the expansion
of higher education into the remote areas of the state, and
I'm using Charlotte as a remote area because it was in the
structure of higher education. Wilmington they considered to be a part
of South Carolina. McLendon and Ramsey used to tell me that they
couldn't have an institution down
there. It's nothing but ocean on the other side
[laughter]
- JAY JENKINS:
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And then Asheville of course…
- WILLIAM DALLAS HERRING:
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Asheville was in Tennessee
[laughter]
. Well, Sanford's such a tremendous person in the way
he handles—well, I've been to the mansion so many
times. We've had it full of youngsters from all over the
state, black and white—creative discussions, musicians,
artists, educators, philosophers, even got the taxi cab drivers from New
York to come down there one time. You remember that.
