Horace - WilliamShakespeare
Friends
of the State of North Carolina, lend me your ears;
I
write to bury Horace Williams Airport, not to praise it.
The
evil that this airport has supported shall not persist;
The
good shall not be noted or missed;
So
let it be with this Airport. The University of North Carolina
Hath
told you that the Airport stands in the way of progress:
If
it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And
grievously hath the Airport answer'd it.
Here,
under leave of the leaders of the University,
And
legislators in Raleigh;
So
are they all, all honourable men -
Come I to write for the
Airport’s funeral.
The
Airport faithfully allowed me to serve the medical needs of the children of
North Carolina:
But
our leaders say that it stands in the way of progress;
And
all of their attorneys are honourable men.
The
airport stands as a technological milestone
In
our state in which aviation was founded:
Did
this in Chapel Hill seem ambitious?
When
that the poor of the state have been unable to access Chapel Hill for care, the
Airport hath provided
Doctors
and nurses the ability to inform, teach, and treat
Yet
the attorneys say the Airport is not needed;
And
they are all honourable men.
You
all did see that the plans for Carolina North, upon which the Airport stands,
Was
to provide high technology to the state,
To
the benefit of us all: forgetting the ambition of those who own land nearby,
Waiting
to profit from construction and development;
And,
sure, they are all honourable men.
I
write not to disprove what they spoke,
But
here I am to write what I do know.
You
all did love the Airport once, not without cause:
What
cause withholds you then, to mourn for it?
O
judgment! The first building upon this Airport shall not be a School of technology
but of Law,
And
men may have lost their reason, but not the attorneys who are our leaders. Bear
with me;
My
heart is in the air there above the Airport,
And
I must pause until honourable men allow it come back
to me.
With
apologies to William Shakespeare,
James
P. Loehr, M.D.
Division
of Pediatric Cardiology
The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Our Wonderful
AHEC Doctors January 2009
The final scheduled flight from Horace Williams
airport to Fayetteville will be in July. Horace Williams Airport will continue
to operate for many years, given the status of Carolina North, but the AHEC
doctors have to drive to RDU where UNC spent $3.5 million for an unneeded
hanger;
Why can they not continue to
fly from Horace Williams?
MedAir to leave airport this month
A false
start for UNC's Carolina North
... the first project (innovation
center) for the new campus, is off. ... The weak economy has also put the
UNC School of Law's move to the new campus on hold, - October 2010