Meet the Angus Barn’s beloved greeter, a 96-year-old who ‘does not know a stranger’

More than 65 years ago, Walter Hilliard Greene played with members of the UNC-Chapel Hill basketball team that won the NCAA Division I championship. Greene, 96, no longer plays for crowds of fans. Instead, he welcomes crowds of people as a restaurant greeter in Raleigh’s most famous steakhouse, and he couldn’t be happier. “I questioned whether or not I would be able to carry on a conversation with people, when I had no idea who they were,” he said, “or sit at the door and repeat myself over an...

UNC School of Law honors first Black female graduate Sylvia X. Allen in portrait unveiling

Sylvia X. Allen spent her life breaking barriers and using her talents to further justice and love: she was not only the first Black woman to graduate from Carolina Law, but also a prosecutor, an assistant attorney general, a community leader, and a mother of eight children. On Nov. 4, 2022, UNC faculty and students gathered to witness the unveiling of Allen’s portrait, which will hang in the law school beside portraits of other distinguished alumni. The UNC School of Law commissioned artist Robin Wellner to create the portrait after alumni Diana Florence (‘95) and Scott Peeler (‘97) established the Sylvia X. Allen Scholarship Endowment Fund in 2021.
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