Doris Moore Lindsey - C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards

Generations of students, nurses and doctors in the Student Health Service knew the worth of its administrative manager. An unselfish servant of all who came to the health service, troubleshooter and problem-solver for all who worked there, Doris Moore Lindsay had been a full-time University employee for 43 years when she was recognized with a Massey Award. She unselfishly worked long hours, shunned vacations and worked diligently and cheerfully. For loving service eagerly given, Lindsay was a worthy recipient of a C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award 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.