The southern part of heaven
Just got back from a very, very nice black alumni reunion event at my alma mater in Chapel Hill.
I haven't been going to these affairs in recent years but I should. It felt so warm and familiar, even as the campus looks less and less like I remember it.
Sam Perkins, the former basketball star, was there. He still appears to be in playing shape. So was the chairman of the UNC Board of Trustees, Richard "Stick" Williams, a Dudley graduate who grew up in public housing in Greensboro and is now an executive with Duke Power. And the chairwoman of the newly accredited journalism program at A&T, Dr. Teresa Styles.
During the reception they were flashing PowerPoint projections of photos from way back when. Suddenly, there was me up there, with an Afro out to here. Geez.
As for all the new construction, they paved paradise and put up too many parking decks.