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Object Description
Interview no. | R-0094 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.10. Special Research Projects: Carol Woods Retirement Community, Chapel Hill, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1998-1999, conducted by members of the Carol Woods Residents Association, with residents and staff members of Carol Woods, an accredited, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C., on the 20th anniversary of its founding. Interviews document the founding and early history of the institution and were used by Iris Friederich in her Pioneering at Carol Woods (2000), a copy of which is included with the interviews. |
Date | September 9, 1998 |
Interviewee | Severance, Robert. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Elder, Virginia. |
Abstract | Meeting Martin Luther King in Montgomery, AL; moving into Carol Woods after retirement; organizing social groups and cocktail hours among the residents; his high level positions in the US government before the war; helping Harkness with selection of the director and setting up the front office; his wife's invovlment with the health center; his wife's death. |
Subject Topical |
Older people--North Carolina. Retirement communities--North Carolina. |
Subject Name |
Carol Woods Retirement Community (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Severance, Robert. |
Citation | Interview with [interviewee name] by [interviewer name], [interview date] [interview number], in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | R0094_Audio_1 |