Anne Ellen Queen - C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards

Anne Ellen Queen spent 19 years as a leader in the Campus Y, first as associate director and then as director. She always had a bead on the heart of moral issues in the University and the town, and consistently showed a tender heart and an open hand to all who needed her help. As healer and reconciler in disputes, hostess and inspiration to generations of students, friend of high and humble, persistent champion of the right, Queen was fitly honored with a C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards for 1980.

C. Knox Massey

The late C. Knox Massey of Durham attended the University in the early 1920s and then founded an advertising agency in Durham now considered one of the South’s advertising pioneers.

After retiring from the ad firm in 1967, Massey became a special assistant to then UNC Chancellor Carlyle Sitterson—working another 25 years essentially as a volunteer—at a salary of “$1 a year.”

Massey established scholarship programs and faculty teaching awards in addition to the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award.

He earned:

The School of Medicine’s Distinguished Service Award in 1957

The Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Medal in 1979

The University’s William Richardson Davie Award in 1988

Massey died in 1993 at the age of 90.