Wonder how many other entries in the Southern Historical Collection catalog include the notation “unpublished photographs…. including a Playboy centerfold”….
Alice Denham was a 1949 UNC graduate, but Chapel Hill seems not to have provided her most vivid memories.
From her 2006 memoir, “Sleeping with Bad Boys: A 1956 Playboy Model’s Escapades with James Dean, Hugh Hefner, Norman Mailer and the famous writers of the 1950’s beat generation”:
“For my senior year, I cut my hair, worked three campus jobs, refused to go out with Beau, switched my major to English, drove to the woods with Beau every Sunday noon when I couldn’t hold out any longer, retaught myself to type in a week, made Phi Beta Kappa, got a scholarship to graduate school at University of Rochester and decided to be a writer if it killed me.”
Lew,
We’ll leave Alice Denham circa July 1956, tame as it may be by today’s standards, for viewing elsewhere.
But we’ve got Alice as a UNC junior and senior. And there’s photographic proof that she cut her hair.
1948 Yackety Yack photo (left page, 2nd row): http://go.unc.edu/e5S9X
1949 Yackety Yack photo (left page, fifth row):
http://go.unc.edu/Mo9x2