Carmichael Gymnasium
I initially had some mildly interesting things to say about Carmichael. However, when trying to find more factual information, I discovered that Carmichael Gymnasium is also the name of a complex at UNC. I’ve asked a few current and former students both here and at Chapel Hill, and no one seemed to know there was a similarly named building at the other campus. I should probably mention that my scientific poll consisted of the number of people you can count with one hand.
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07/17/2008
History
Carmichael Gymnasium offers an outdoor and indoor track, swimming pools, basketball courts, racquetball courts, and areas for wrestling, boxing, weight lifting and gymnastics. In 1940, William Donald Carmichael (1900-1961) became Vice President and Financial Officer for the three-college, Consolidated University system of the time. After serving in the Air Corps during World War I, Carmichael earned his degree in business administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, he was active in athletics and had been captain of the basketball team. He became an advertising executive and stock broker in New York before returning to North Carolina.
During his administration, Carmichael supported funding for the completion of the gymnasium, Reynolds Coliseum, a state educational TV system, Burlington Laboratories’ nuclear reactor, and the William Neal Reynolds Professorships. One of his characteristic words was “imagineering.”
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http://www.ncsu.edu/facilities/buildings/carmichael.html