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“My goal is to be inthe same place in thesame tree with thesame camera and doit over again—whateverthe scene is.”— Jock Lauterer18 September 2011Lauterer straddles the edge ofcampus on the wall dividingMcCorkle Place from FranklinStreet—the same wall across whichFrank Wilkinson spoke to studentsin 1963.who was president of UNC-CH at the time and known forhis support of the student body in the matter, about placing amonument to the overthrown Speaker Ban on campus.In March 2011, they met with Chancellor Holden Thorp,who was also excited about the prospect of such a monument.“Their reaction was one of, ‘Why didn’t we think of thisbefore?’” Dickson says. “It was good to have their support.”The Dickson siblings are providing the monument, whichthey will unveil and dedicate on University Day—Oct. 12,2011.Dickson says the monument will go up on the stone wallseparating McCorkle Place from Franklin Street, in the spotwhere his brother stood with Wilkinson on that day. Thestone monument will bear the names of all of the studentslisted on the lawsuit, along with the organizations they wererepresenting. Dickson says they felt this was the best way torecognize the broad base of student support for the effort.“It’s really a memorial for the students’ efforts, because itwas a student effort,” Dickson says. “It’s not just my brother.That’s sort of our part in it, but it was a lot bigger than him.”At the ceremony, Lauterer says he plans to climb thattree and take a photo with the same camera he used for theoriginal iconic image.“I’m going to have to get a ladder. I’m going to have tohave help this time,” Lauterer says. “My goal is to be in thesame place in the same tree with the same camera and do itover again—whatever the scene is.”Besides the photo being an icon for a major moment inUniversity history, Lauterer says he holds it near and dear forother reasons.That notable photograph contains Lynne Vernon-Feagans,the woman who would later become his wife.Twenty-seven years after the photograph was taken,Lauterer was working as a professor at The Pennsylvania StateUniversity. He met a woman there who remembered himfrom that day as the photographer in the tree. She had beenat the demonstration and can be seen in an expanded versionof the photo among the crowd of students.“On one of our first dates, I figured out that I had photographedher 27 years prior in a crowd,” Lauterer says, “andnow she’s the love of my life.” &