Never forget what that education did for you

“We had Southern fried chicken, turnip greens, hush puppies and things we’d never heard of. But it tasted good right away, because we were hungry.”

When Bob Young and Lennie Rosenbluth came from their native New York City to Carolina — as recruits for a team destined to become 1957 basketball national champions — they dined on some strange concoctions. But that’s not what made the biggest impression.

“The most important thing was the way the people of North Carolina received us, the students and everyone, and how welcome they made us feel,” Young said. “It was one of the best four years of my life.”

After graduation, Young joined the U.S. Marines and went on to a career in sales and marketing at companies including The New Yorker magazine. Now retired in Naples, Florida, he recently bequeathed $2 million to the College of Arts and Sciences for the Robert F. and Patricia A. Young and the 1957 Carolina Basketball Team Professorship of Poetry. He wished to honor his beloved wife, Pat, who died April 12, and the team.

And remind his fellow alumni: “Never forget what that education did for you.”

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