North Carolina Chapel Hill University Wartime Reorganization, The Cadet Program and the Founding of the UNC Executive Program: Bruce and Rex S. Winslow Papers and Ephemera Archive, 1943 to 1963

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Ephemera

University of North Carolina papers of Bruce and Rex S. Winslow, 1943 to 1963, documenting Chapel Hill’s wartime naval cadet program and Rex Winslow’s work as an economics professor and architect of UNC executive education. More than fifty personal letters follow Bruce Winslow through the Navy’s wartime campus program, while Rex Winslow’s speeches, memoranda, essays, and university ephemera trace his work from World War II economic questions into Cold War debates over management, national policy, military spending, and the responsibilities of business leadership.

Mixed archive of more than fifty letters with envelopes, printed programs, invitations, certificates, photographs, typescripts, clippings, pamphlets, and official correspondence, chiefly Chapel Hill, 1943 to 1963. [1] More than fifty personal letters addressed to Bruce Winslow as a cadet, addressed to Bruce Winslow as a United States Naval Reserve and Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet at the University of North Carolina, many retaining wartime envelopes and Chapel Hill addresses. Related material includes a February 25, 1944 Naval R.O.T.C. and V 12 commencement program, a German Club “Finals 1944” booklet, fraternity invitations, an Autumn Ball invitation, and wartime technical training material. [2] Rex S. Winslow papers include Executive Program opening and closing addresses from 1957 through 1960; an “Off the Record” memorandum to Deans Lee and George criticizing the narrow structure of business education; the eight page typescript A Decade of Decision; the printed article “Could We Afford to Declare Peace?”; Executive Program brochures; newspaper coverage of his university and Chamber of Commerce work; R. E. Coker’s What Are the Fittest? inscribed to Winslow; and Governor Terry Sanford’s 1963 appointment letter naming him chairman of the Commercial Fisheries Advisory Board. [3] A February 8, 1960 Navy memorandum on a KA 30 camera mode selector for the F8U 1P aircraft is accompanied by a technical photograph marked “Jack’s invention (#1).”

The Bruce Winslow correspondence preserves the social and institutional life of a university reorganized for wartime naval training. Rex Winslow’s papers document the next phase of UNC’s development, when the School of Business Administration created programs for senior executives and framed management as a public responsibility shaped by science, military power, communism, and economic policy. His memoranda and addresses record the language used within the early Executive Program as its faculty defined the purpose of advanced management education in the Cold War. Moderate toning, folds, edge wear, occasional tears, staining, and paper clip marks; envelopes variably opened, with text generally clear and legible. Overall good condition. A generational archive linking Chapel Hill’s wartime cadet program with the formation of postwar executive education at the University of North Carolina, with insight into wartime Greek life, and the personal life of regionally notable Rex Winslow, Director of the Bureau of Business Research, who shaped regional economic studies, and his time as chief of contract terminations for the War Production Board during World War II was a significant contribution to the U.S. war effort.

Item #23713

Price: $450.00