On Friday, November 15, the College of Arts and Sciences presented Gene Allen Holland a long-awaited degree. Gene Holland attended UNC from 1962 to 1965 and continued his education at the School of Dentistry at UNC. He received his Doctor of Dental Surgery and then joined the faculty in the school in 1968 until retiring in 1997. After requesting to receive his undergraduate degree a couple years into dentistry school, the chancellor at the time did not carry out the request, deeming it unnecessary since he was already into his D.D.S. After fifty years, he finally was awarded his undergraduate diploma, just in time for his graduating class' fifty year reunion!