TO THE EDITOR:
In 1957, Bob Young made one of the first of his many contributions to the University of North Carolina by playing on the men’s basketball team that went undefeated and won the national championship.
Almost 60 years later, Mr. Young continues to support our University in a diverse number of ways, recently gifting $2 million to the College of Arts and Sciences for the Robert F. and Patricia A. Young and 1957 Carolina Basketball Team Professorship of Poetry Fund.
In addition to this generous gift, Mr. Young has established a poetry project for students through The Daily Tar Heel.
“Tar Heel Verses” will showcase student poetry from the English department every week in the hopes of encouraging students to develop the same love for poetry that he and his wife shared.
The first poem to be published in The Daily Tar Heel is entitled “Miracles” by Walt Whitman and will be running in honor of his wife, Patricia Young, and the 1957 basketball team. After the first poem appears, original student poems will run weekly. Young hopes reading a poem each week will expose students to poetry so they can become more open-minded and discover the benefits and pleasures of poetry. This spring, poems by students in Professor Michael McFee’s honors poetry class will be published. Look for “Miracles” this Wednesday on page 2!
Emily Wilkinson
Sophomore
Political science and
