{"id":189,"date":"2011-12-21T13:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-12-21T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T13:47:43","slug":"taylor-siblings-honor-family-tradition-of-valuing-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Taylor siblings honor family tradition of valuing education"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Bill and Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s paternal grandfather, William Woodruff Taylor Sr., grew weary of dentistry and decided to become a lawyer, he set an example of never stopping one\u2019s education. He practiced both disciplines in Warrenton, N.C., for years.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the family tree, these siblings\u2019 maternal grandmother, Kate Barden Winstead, moved her eight children from Roxboro to Chapel Hill in the 1930s. She did that so her four daughters could attend Carolina, as well as her four sons.<\/p>\n

No doubt, these trailblazers knew that their actions would affect their own family, but they couldn\u2019t know that their grandchildren would then pass on the Taylor-Winstead value of education to students from far and wide, almost a century later, when Bill \u201966 and Elizabeth \u201976 created the William W. (Jr.) and Ida W. Taylor Fellows in the Honors Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Named for their parents, the program provides summer stipends for undergraduate research within the Honors Program at UNC.<\/p>\n

Singling out the accomplishments of Bill and Elizabeth\u2019s grandparents is a random exercise, since both the Taylors and the Winsteads have long, spreading family trees all intertwined with Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor generations and generations our family has defined itself by being committed to education,\u201d said Elizabeth, an attorney with Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother and father were people for whom education was very important, and for whom UNC was very important,\u201d added Bill (William W. Taylor III), who also practices law at Zuckerman Spaeder. \u201cAlthough my mother spent more time at Carolina, my father\u2019s mantra was \u2018I want everybody else in my family to have the opportunity that I didn\u2019t have \u2013 the opportunity to go to college.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

William Jr. attended Davidson College, Carolina and Wake Forest Law School. He never earned a degree, because the Great Depression forced him to work. Still, he passed the North Carolina bar exam at age 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad\u2019s family read a lot \u2013 all the classics — and they talked a lot,\u201d Bill said. \u201cMy dad\u2019s education was mostly sitting on the front porch. And when his grandchildren were born, he created a trust for each of them, so each could go to college and not have any debt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ida Winstead Taylor ’37 was one of the daughters brought to Chapel Hill. She graduated from UNC in an era when it was less common for women to attend college.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother was one of eight women in her freshman class,\u201d said Elizabeth. (In that era, women could only enter UNC as day students during their freshman and sophomore years, but could enroll fully as juniors.) \u201cParticularly in the South, not every woman was able to get that kind of education. In turn, it was important to her that I \u2013 not just my brother \u2013 had it too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bill and Elizabeth grew up in a household that treasured learning and knowledge. Dinner table conversations were about politics, current events and savoring quotations made by history\u2019s great thinkers. The expectation for these two \u2013 from aunts and uncles, as well as their parents — was that they would do well in school. \u201cWe never were rewarded for good grades; it was expected,\u201d Elizabeth said. Her parents taught by example that learning \u2013 especially learning together \u2013 could be fun. \u201cThey passed on to us a richness to life. We celebrate that relationship, and try to instill in our children the same joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

They also want to celebrate their relationship with Carolina. Although they are 10 years apart, they both enjoyed their time here. They hope the Taylor Fellowships will help students who want to enhance the Carolina experience through undergraduate research. \u201cFor some students, it gives them an opportunity to do something connected with their education, to have an experience,\u201d Bill said. \u201cIt seemed like a really good way to recognize what the University has meant to us and our family, and to help kids who might be facing burdens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them to know that we\u2019re all standing on the shoulders of those who came before us.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Claire Cusick, written for summer 2010 issue of <\/em>Carolina Connections.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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