“He wasn’t merely a good professor. He inspired a love of learning. He made me want to learn. I went from cramming for exams the night before to basically living in the carrels at the library. I made nothing but As and Bs during my last two years. I did everything I could to become a scholar.”
Now, Stephen Israel ’66 wants to honor his life-changing English professor. He created the O.B. Hardison, Jr. Scholarship Fund for the Humanities in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences to provide a scholarship for an undergraduate student who wants to study the humanities. He hopes to raise $1 million to endow the scholarship.
This is story number 196 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.