Bill Friday, UNC president emeritus, dies at 92

So many will miss his loyalty to the state and University he loved, as well as his wit, compassion and ever-centered sense of justice.

Mr. Friday had a special relationship with the Gillings School of Global Public Health.His wife, Ida Howell Friday, studied health education at the School and taught here for many years. Even recently, he graciously attended events here, serving as historian and cheerleader at events including the School’s renaming in 2008 and the 10th anniversary of the School’s N.C. Institute of Public Health in 2009.

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• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
• General Alumni Association
• The University of North Carolina
• The Daily Tar Heel
  
• Dean Barbara K. Rimer’s blog, Monday Morning
  

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Linda Kastleman, communications editor, (919) 966-8317 or linda_kastleman@unc.edu.