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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Louis Billy Pope Papers #04550, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Louis Billy Pope of Kernersville, N.C., in April 1990 (Acc. 90042), May 1998 (Acc. 98124), January 2001 (Acc. 98842), April and October 2003 (Acc. 99464 and 99635), and July 2013 (Acc. 101828). Transferred from the North Carolina Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill, in May 2001 and August 2004 (Acc. 98922 and 99881).

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Processed: June 1999

Updated: October 2001 and April 2019.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Counseling in higher education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Diaries.
• Education--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century.
• High Point College (High Point, N.C.)--Faculty.
• High Point College (High Point, N.C.)--Students.
• Kernersville (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Pope, Louis Billy, 1927-2008.
• Presbyterian College of South Carolina.
• School notebooks--History--20th century.
• Sedge Garden United Methodist Church.
• St. Andrews College (Laurinburg, N.C.)--Faculty.
• Travelers--Diaries--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Education.

Louis Billy Pope (1927-2008), professor of education and, for eight years, head of the guidance center at High Point College, High Point, N.C. A native of Forsyth County, N.C., Pope graduated from High Point College in 1948 and received his Ph.D. in education from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1958. Pope taught in the Forsyth County school system, served as director of guidance at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., and was on the faculty of St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, N.C., before joining the faculty of the psychology and education departments at High Point College.

Louis Billy Pope was born in 1927 in Kernersville, Forsyth County, N.C. He lived and worked in Forsyth County and neighboring Guilford County most of his life.

Pope was graduated from High Point College in High Point, N.C., in 1948. He later attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, receiving his master's degree in 1952 and Ph.D. in 1958, both from the School of Education, where his studies centered on counseling.

Pope served as teacher and counselor in the Forsyth County school system, director of guidance at Presbyterian College, Clinton, S.C., and on the faculty of Saint Andrews College, Laurinburg, N.C. In 1964, Pope joined the psychology and education departments at High Point College, rising to full professor. He also headed the College's guidance center for eight years. He became professor emeritus in 1987.

Pope was long active in community and church groups and alumni and other campus organizations, especially the Sedge Garden United Methodist Church, Kernersville Crisis Control, and the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

This collection contains correspondence, journals, subject files, school notebooks, and pictures documenting the personal and professional life of Louis Billy Pope. The correspondence is mostly personal, chiefly with his mother and sisters, but also including letters from Henry Sink, his college roommate and lifetime friend; friends and neighbors in Clinton, S.C., and Laurinburg, N.C.; and High Point College students. Journal entries contain Pope's record of daily activities with strong emphasis family, church, community, and work activities. Subject files contain information about Pope's career as well as some personal and family information. Pope's travels in the United States and abroad are well-documented, with many pictures, letters, and journal entries.

• Image Folders: PF-4550/1-86 in Image Boxes 1-4.