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Chapel Hill Welcomes
The Thomas Wolfe Society

The Thomas Wolfe Society returns to Chapel Hill for the seventh time, meeting this spring on the historic campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s oldest public university and the undergraduate alma mater of Thomas Wolfe. The 2006 meeting will feature two days of papers and presentations in Wilson Library; a reception at the Horace Williams House; an exhibition of original artwork illustrating Look Homeward, Angel; and opportunities to explore the campus, as Wolfe would have known it, on guided walking tours. Please make plans to attend.

THE THOMAS WOLFE SOCIETY
Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
May 26-27, 2006

AGENDA

FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2006
10:00 -12:30 Registration Wilson Library Lobby
12:30 Welcoming Remarks: Rob Ensign, President; Shawn Holliday, Vice President
Prologue Reading: Steven B. Rogers, Mount Ranier, Maryland

1:00 Session One, Wilson Library
Moderated by Anne Zahlan, Eastern Illinois University

  • “Of Time, Wolfe, and the Westalls: What O Lost Has to Tell Us.” Deborah A. Borland, North Canton, Ohio
  • “Folk Heroism in The Hills Beyond.” George Hovis, Murray State University
  • “‘El-dorado to the North’: Thomas Wolfe, World War I, and the Southern Economy.” David A. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:20 Business Meeting, Rob Ensign presiding.
Break to follow.

2:45 Session Two, Wilson Library
Moderated by Jackie Dean, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • “Why Thomas Wolfe is a ‘Crate’ American Novelist.” Joseph Bentz, Azusa Pacific University
  • “A Window of Memory: The Role of Children in the Works of Thomas Wolfe.” Suzanne Stutman, Pennsylvania State University
  • “W.O. Gant and the Restraint of Laughter.” Scott Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

5:00 - 7:00 Reception, Horace Williams House
610 Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2006
8:30-9:00 Coffee, Wilson Library Lobby

9:00 Session Three, Wilson Library
Moderated by Shawn Holliday, Alice Lloyd College

  • “‘That mother-spoiled glut of oily fat’: John Skally Terry in Thomas Wolfe’s Life and Work.” Alice Cotten, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • “Through Martha’s Eyes: Thomas Wolfe and Martha Dodd in Berlin, 1935-1936.” Steven B. Rogers, Mount Rainier, Maryland
  • Richard S. Kennedy Student Prize Award Winner
  • Thomas Wolfe Write-Alike Contest Winner

10:20-10:45 Break

10:45 Session Four, Wilson Library
Moderated by Jan Hensley, Greensboro, N.C.

  • “Books of Passage.” Louis D. Rubin, Jr.,* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emeritus
  • Epilogue Reading Jan Hensley, Greensboro, N.C.

* Dr. Rubin will be available to sign books immediately following the epilogue reading.

12:00 Lunch on your own

2:00 Walking tours of Thomas Wolfe’s University of North Carolina, leaving from the steps of Wilson Library.

6:00 Reception, State Dining Room, Morehead Planetarium

7:00 Awards Banquet, State Dining Room, Morehead Planetarium
Rob Ensign, Presiding
Keynote Address Anne Ponder, Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Asheville