Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence documenting Frank H. Kenan's extensive family, business, political, and social networks. Materials dated 1941-1946 relate to Kenan's life and business dealings while he served in the Navy during World War II. Materials dated 1968-1996 relate to family matters, friends and acquaintances, charitable contributions, requests for employment, and advice given to aspirants to careers in business and entrepreneurship. Also included are some materials relating to awards received (see also Series 12. Awards, Honors, and Speeches). In addition, there is some material relating to properties and investments, including the Cove (sometimes spelled Kove), business operations of the Flagler System, Inc., the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust, and the University of North Carolina, though the bulk of material relating to these subjects is in other series. Correspondents include Archie Davis, Lawrence Lewis, James Leutze, Leslie Boney, and many others.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence relating to family news, the Flagler System, Inc., the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust, Olympia Investment Corporation, and Kenan Oil Company.

Arrangement: chronological, followed by subject files.

Chiefly correspondence relating to local, state, and national reelection campaigns. Also included are materials relating to Frank H. Kenan's affiliation with "Five Old Men," an organization of civic-minded men who sought to encourage political activism and initiate community development in Durham, N.C. (see also "Five Old Men" in Series 12. Other Papers).

Arrangement: by subject.

Correspondence documenting Frank H. Kenan's relationships with people and institutions and his interest in various projects and travel. Included are materials relating to Marjorie Cameron, a former English nanny for the Kenan children; honors for William C. Friday; responses to The Meaning of Honor: The Life of Frank Hawkins Kenan (1994), a biography published by Betty Kenan; family travel; and Frank H. Kenan's lifelong devotion to Woodberry Forest School.

Arrangement: chronological, followed by subject files.

Correspondence, financial reports, legal materials, maps, and other materials relating to Frank H. Kenan's financial interests in residential and commerical real estate and other investments. A few materials relate to Kenan's early investments and his work as a member of the board of directors of Central Carolina Bank. The bulk of the material, however, pertains to his partnerships with W. Clay Hamner and others in various residential and commercial real estate purchases. On occasion, Kenan and Hamner also jointly purchased stocks. Many of these investments were organized under the Montrose Capital Corporation, Montrose Investment Corporation, and SEHED Development Corporation. Researchers interested in a specific investments should also consult the files for the investment corporations, if applicable, and also general correspondence.

Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

Correspondence, financial reports, blueprints, and maps relating to Frank H. Kenan's investments in personal property, including two working farms and a vacation home. The bulk of the material relates to the purchase, restoration, and management of the Cove (sometimes spelled Kove), a 4500 acre farm property in Tazewell County, Va. Also included are blueprints of the Kenan farmhouse and Landfall residence.

Correspondence, legal materials, funding reports, clippings, bills, trustee meeting materials, trustee reports, and other documents relating to the establishment, administration, and relocation of the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust.

Though substantive material likely is duplicated throughout this series, researchers are advised to search in this general subseries as well as in the subsequent topical subseries for materials relating to a given subject.

Correspondence and other materials relating to the administration of the Kenan professorships and the biannual convocations of Kenan professors from around the country in Chapel Hill, N.C. The University of North Carolina and five universities in New York state received the first endowed Kenan professorships in 1966. By 1980, the Trust had committed approximately $750,000 to each of the Kenan professorships at 56 American universities and colleges. The grants were intended to enhance the quality of teaching and teacher-student relationships at the undergraduate level. Convocations of Kenan professors have been held biannually since 1980.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence and annual reports regarding the activities, finances, and history of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chemistry Department Endowment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Endowment was established in 1974, with a gift of $500,000 from the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust, and received an additional $500,000 in 1975. Over the years; the Endowment has sponsored visiting faculty; newly appointed faculty; minority graduate student recruitment; the Department of Chemistry Short Course Program; and the acquisition of new technology, including computers. Correspondence between Trust administrators and the faculty of the Chemistry Department chiefly concerns the finances, history, and preparation of the annual reports for the Endowment.

Arrangement: chronological, followed by subject files.

Chiefly correspondence of Frank H. Kenan, administrators of the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust, and the secondary schools that received challenge grants and endowment grants of recognition and support. Materials relate to the administration of the grants, which were issued to help secondary schools increase their endowments and annual giving programs. Also included are materials relating to the 1988 convocation of headmasters.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly correspondence of Frank H. Kenan, administrators of the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust, and administrators of four-year private liberal arts colleges that received challenge grants and endowment grants of recognition and support. Grants were intended to expand endowments and ultimately improve the quality of undergraduate teaching. Grants issued to Guilford College, Hollins College, and the University of the South are documented.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly correspondence and legal documents relating to the establishment and operations of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund, which was created in 1983 by the Trustees of the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust to support the activities of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and the construction of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials concern the creation of the Fund, its objective, the board of trustees, tax status, expenses, funding, by-laws, planning and construction of the Kenan Center, and the Institute of Private Enterprise. Also included are subject files concerning the activities of William C. Friday as president of the Fund.

Materials, chiefly correspondence, reports, and clippings, relating to the activities and organization of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. The series has been broken down into five subseries: 3.7.1. General; 3.7.2. MBA Enterprise Corps; 3.7.3. Global TransPark; 3.7.4. Kenan Institute Asia/U.S.-Thailand Development Partnership; and 3.7.5. Urban Enterprise Corps.

The Institute for the Study of Private Enterprise was established in 1985, through gifts from the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund, with the aim to "foster mutual understanding and cooperation among people working in business, academic institutions, and government to strengthen private enterprise systems in the United States and worldwide" (from 1993 Report to the Board of Directors of the Charitable Trust). In 1987, the Institute was renamed the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise in honor of Frank H. Kenan. Rollie Tillman served as the director from 1985 through 1989, and Jack Kasarda began his term as director in 1989. The Institute of Private Enterprise is located in the Kenan Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although it originally focused on private enterprise development in the United States, in the early 1990s the Institute expanded its outlook to include a number of international activities with a focus on Central Europe and Southeast Asia. Activities of the Institute of Private Enterprise have included the Center for Competitiveness and Employment Growth, the Center for Emerging Markets, the Center for Global Business Research, the Global Manufacturing Research Center, the Center for Urban Investment, the Citibank International Fellows Program, the Global TransPark, the International Business Education Center, the MBA Enterprise Corps, the Urban Enterprise Corps, the Durham Scholars Program, the U.S.-Thailand Development Partnership, and the Kenan Institute Asia.

Arrangement: chronological, followed by subject files.

Correspondence, blueprints, contracts, and other materials concerning the planning and construction of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Kenan Center. Correspondence relates to costs, funding, budgets, floor plans, landscaping, use, contracts with vendors, property agreements with the state of North Carolina, construction progress, insurance, furnishings and decorations, staff, and the opening ceremony. Also included are contracts with the architects, contractors, and suppliers. Subject files include blueprints of the Kenan Center, the use policy, furniture specifications, and a design development submittal. See also Series 3.6. William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund for related correspondence.

The Kenan Center was constructed in 1986 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to house the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund. The five story, 63,702 square foot building was a gift to the University from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund. The housed at the Kenan Center is the administration of the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Other areas in the building are available as meeting and social facilities for the University. The architectural firm in charge of design was O'Brien/Atkins Associates, P.A., and the general contractor was C. T. Wilson Construction Company, Inc.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence, reports, press releases, project budgets, and a videotape documenting the contributions of the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust to literacy work in the southeast and across the country. The Trust initially funded a pilot grant to the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Family Literacy Project to develop programs for at-risk preschool children and their undereducated parents in North Carolina and Kentucky. Success of the SREB project resulted in the subsequent establishment of the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) in Louisville, Ky., in 1989. The NCFL provides information, training materials, and technical assistance to family literacy initiatives across the country. The NCFL also seeks to influence federal education policies and initiatives.

See also Subseries 3.1.1. General Correspondence for additional materials relating to the National Center for Family Literacy. Note that the National Center for Family Literary is sometimes referred to as the Kenan Trust Family Literary Project.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence relating to the Kenan Enterprise Awards, which were established to recognize arts and sciences faculty who use creative teaching and scholarship to foster the free enterprise system in the United States and around the world. Recipients of the Kenan Enterprise Awards are announced at the biannual convocation of Kenan professors.

Arrangement: chronological, followed by subject files.

Correspondence, clippings, and reports concerning the operations and activities of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Much of the material relates to the funding and construction of a new building (the McColl Building) to house the school. Correspondence and reports from 1994 relate to a $9 million grant from the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust to the Kenan-Flagler Business School, of which $8 million was designated for an executive conference center and the remaining $1 million was allocated for the Center on Entrepreneurship. Various reports outline the activities and plans of the business school.

Other topics include the various programs and conferences hosted by the Kenan-Flagler Business School, the activities of the board of directors and the board of visitors, faculty awards, grants from the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust, other sources of funding and donations, the appointment and retirement of Dean Paul Rizzo, national rankings, and the Undergraduate Business Symposium. Subject files include the possible acquisition of the Baity property located near campus, the UNC Bond issue, the 1991 ceremony that renamed the business school in honor of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler (1897-1917) and her husband Henry Morrison Flagler (d. 1913), the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the new building, the Executive Education Conference Center, and the Executive Education Five Year Business Plan.

Though substantive material likely is duplicated, researchers are advised to search Subseries 3.1.1. General Correspondence for additional materials relating to the Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence relating to the establishment of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund for the Arts. The fund was established in 1992 with a $20 million grant from the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust to aid in the enrichment and development of the arts and cultural life. The Fund for the Arts supports the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts located on the campus of the North Carolina School for the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C. Jeanne F. Butler was the founding director of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.

See also "New Funds" in Subseries 3.1.1. General Correspondence.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence relating to the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund for Engineering, Technology, and Science. The fund was established in 1992 with a $20 million grant from the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust to encourage research and teaching advancements in the areas of science, engineering, and technology, thus fostering American economic development. The Fund for Engineering, Technology, and Science supports the William R. Kenan, Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology, and Science located at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. Harold B. Hopfenberg was the founding director of William R. Kenan, Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology, and Science.

See also "New Funds" in Subseries 3.1.1. General Correspondence.

Arrangement: by subject.

Materials relating to other projects supported by the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust.