Chronology

Arthur Cogswell and Werner Hausler form Cogswell/Hausler Architects

In 1967 Cogswell went into partnership with Werner Hausler, an East German-born architect he had met at State College. In its early years the firm worked mostly on houses, designing many in Coker Hills, Lake Forest, Morgan Creek Hills and Glendale, and it lasted until Hausler retired in 1990.

People: Arthur Cogswell · Werner Hausler

Bill Dooley becomes Carolina's head football coach

Dooley, 33, came to Chapel Hill from the University of Georgia, where he had been chief offensive assistant to his brother Vince. He coached the Tar Heels for eleven seasons through 1977, the longest tenure of any UNC head football coach, with a record of 69-53-2.

Binkley rewrites its constitution to open full membership to all Christians

After a self-examination the church revised its constitution, offering membership to people from any Christian church rather than only the evangelical tradition. It also dropped the bar that had kept members not baptized by immersion from serving as deacons, officers or convention messengers.

Carolyn Kizer is a visiting writer-in-residence at UNC

Poet Carolyn Kizer was one of four writers-in-residence UNC brought to campus for the 1967–68 year, meeting informally with classes and student writers and giving a public address. During the residency she directed the student publication project of a new English course on little magazines.

People: David Madden

Chapel Hill High School graduates its first desegregated class

The class of 1967 was the first to finish at the merged Chapel Hill High School. The school board then debated the fate of the empty Lincoln building through 1969 and 1970, and voted to keep it for school use after sustained objection from Black residents to selling it.

People: Robert Campbell · Stella Nickerson

Subject: Chapel Hill High School · Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

Chapel Hill opens its first public housing at Craig-Gomains and Lindsay Street

Chapel Hill's first public housing neighborhoods were Craig-Gomains (40 units) and Lindsay Street (9 units), both built in 1967. Both remain in the town's 296-unit, 12-neighborhood public housing portfolio.

J. Isaac Copeland directs the Southern Historical Collection

Copeland served as chief of the UNC library's Manuscripts Department and director of the Southern Historical Collection from 1967 to 1975, between James Welch Patton and Carolyn A. Wallace, and taught history at UNC.

People: James Welch Patton · Carolyn Andrews Wallace

Subject: UNC Libraries

Louis D. Rubin Jr. teaches English at UNC-Chapel Hill

Rubin came to UNC from Hollins College in 1967 and taught English for twenty-two years, retiring from teaching in 1989 as University Distinguished Professor.

Max Steele directs the UNC Creative Writing Program

After Jessie Rehder died in 1967, Max Steele became director of UNC's Creative Writing Program and led it until 1986. Writers he mentored include Randall Kenan, Jill McCorkle and Lawrence Naumoff.

People: Randall Kenan · Jill McCorkle

Orange County voters approve $3 million in school bonds for the county and Chapel Hill units

In 1967 voters approved a $3,000,000 school building bond, with $1,000,000 for the Orange County schools and $2,000,000 for the Chapel Hill schools. It was the third school bond passed during Superintendent Carr's tenure.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Richard Petty wins the Hillsborough 150 during his ten-race streak

Richard Petty's win in the Hillsborough 150 at Orange Speedway was the eighth of ten straight victories in 1967, the season he won a record 27 races.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Samuel Selden returns to Chapel Hill as visiting professor of dramatic art

After UCLA and Southern Illinois University, Selden came back to the Department of Dramatic Art as a visiting professor from 1967 to 1971.

Sylvia Wilkinson teaches creative writing at UNC

Novelist Sylvia Wilkinson was a lecturer in creative writing and visiting writer at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1970, the years in which she published A Killing Frost and Cale.

The new Davie Hall becomes the first modernist building on the main campus

Designed by Holloway-Reeves with Brian Shawcroft of Raleigh and built in 1967, Davie Hall is an unornamented tan brick and concrete International Style building. It stands in sharp contrast to the Federal and Greek Revival buildings of the old campus nearby.

Subject: Davie Hall

UNC names a new south campus residence hall for Hinton James

The university built a ten-story residence hall on south campus in 1967 and named it for Hinton James, the first student to reach Chapel Hill in 1795. The hall houses 964 students in eight-person suites.

UNC students open SHAC, the nation's first student-run free clinic

The Student Health Action Coalition began in 1967 with a few UNC medical students seeing patients in supporters' homes. It now holds a free Wednesday evening clinic at the Carrboro Community Health Center, with student interpreting teams in Spanish and Mandarin.

Wednesday vigils against the Vietnam War at the Chapel Hill post office

Every Wednesday from 1967 through 1973, Charlotte Adams and fellow protesters of the Chapel Hill branch of WILPF stood in silent vigil in front of the Chapel Hill post office against U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.

Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza

A three-judge federal court hears arguments in Dickson v. Sitterson at Greensboro

Judges Clement F. Haynsworth, Edwin M. Stanley and Algernon L. Butler heard 45 minutes a side in the U.S. Middle District courtroom. McNeill Smith called the law vague, ambiguous, unconstitutional and void on its face; W. T. Joyner Sr. answered for the University that the 1965 amendment had abolished the original ban. The court then held the case under advisement for a year.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: Paul Dickson III

The UNC law school dedicates an issue of the North Carolina Law Review to Albert Coates

When Coates gave up full-time teaching in 1967, the law school marked it by dedicating the November 1967 North Carolina Law Review to him. That year the North Carolina Bar Association also gave him its John J. Parker award, and Governor Dan K. Moore presented him the North Carolina Award.

People: Dan K. Moore

Subject: UNC School of Law

Five Forks Baptist Church dedicates its new block church

Needing room for a cemetery, the congregation moved to land bought from Arthur Wright for $1 and began building in 1966 with 2,400 donated blocks, much of the work done by the pastor, Tommy Willis, and members. The church was dedicated on December 10, 1967.

Subject: Five Forks Baptist Church

About a thousand students march to Lenoir Hall to demand dormitory visitation

Men students wanted a standing policy for entertaining women in their rooms. While a twelve-member committee with six students met in Lenoir Hall, marchers delivered a petition of about 4,000 signatures.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: Lenoir Hall

Binkley Church adds a classroom wing

A growing congregation needed more church school space, and in 1968 Binkley built a wing addition, with David Basile leading the building committee. The church paired the project with an outreach effort in Carr Court.

Central High School becomes A. L. Stanback School

After Central High's last high school class graduated in 1968 and its older students moved to Orange High School, the school was renamed for its longtime principal A. L. Stanback and became an elementary school.

People: A. L. Stanback

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Chapel Hill adds five more public housing neighborhoods

North Columbia Street (1968), South Estes Drive (1970), and Airport Gardens, Rainbow Heights and South Roberson Street (all 1972) extended the town's public housing after the first two 1967 sites.

Charles Kuralt wins a Peabody Award for On the Road

Kuralt received a personal Peabody Award for On the Road, his segment of Americana on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. He was then a CBS News correspondent based in New York.

Daphne Athas teaches creative writing at UNC

Athas taught creative writing at UNC from 1968 until she retired from teaching in 2009. In the 1970s she took over the stylistics course Glossolalia, known for its annual student performances, and her students included Randall Kenan, Michael Parker and Sarah Dessen.

People: Randall Kenan

Don Stewart designs a house on stilts over Booker Creek for his partner Bob Anderson

Stewart's 1968 house for Bob Anderson at 601 Brookview Drive in Lake Shore Hills sets a steep-gabled living pavilion on stilts over rocky Booker Creek, linked by a raised kitchen bridge to a bedroom wing on the hillside above.

People: Don Stewart

Don Stewart designs the Chapel Hill Professional Village

Stewart's 1968 office complex of one and two stories rests on heavy stone supports, with covered parking and planting built into the design and a bridge through its middle that echoes Frank Lloyd Wright.

People: Don Stewart

George Watts Hill Jr. is tapped as an honorary member of the Order of the Golden Fleece

The university's Order of the Golden Fleece tapped George Watts Hill Jr., Dean Maurice Lee and Dr. Daniel Patterson, all of Chapel Hill, as honorary members along with its new student members.

People: Daniel W. Patterson

Gloria Williams directs the Chapel Hill Housing Authority

Gloria Williams was director of the Chapel Hill Housing Authority from 1968 until it merged with the town's Redevelopment Commission in September 1973, when she became assistant director. In 1969 she was the contact for placing families in the town's first public housing.

Jeff MacNelly draws editorial cartoons for the Chapel Hill Weekly

UNC student Jeff MacNelly began drawing editorial cartoons for the Chapel Hill Weekly under editor Jim Shumaker, then left school to work for the paper full time. He modeled the editor in his later comic strip Shoe on Shumaker.

Subject: The Chapel Hill Weekly

Stanford Junior High School is built near Hillsborough with two classroom buildings and a gymnasium

Under Superintendent G. Paul Carr the county finished Stanford Junior High, a main classroom building for about 800 pupils, a second for about 225 and a gymnasium, on the 100-acre tract it shares with Orange High.

People: G. Paul Carr

Subject: Orange High School

Stonemason John Wesley Campbell, builder of Northside stone houses, dies

John Wesley Campbell, born about 1888 to a white father and a Black mother and trained in masonry from age seven, died in 1968. He worked on UNC buildings, Memorial Hospital and Franklin Street stores, built stone houses and the Hargraves Center in Northside, and taught the trade to his five sons and other Black masons.

People: John Wesley Campbell

The Student Union and Student Stores open beside the undergraduate library around the Pit

In 1968 the Frank Porter Graham Student Union and the Josephus Daniels Student Stores opened on South Road with the new R. B. House Undergraduate Library. The two-story concrete and glass buildings frame a sunken brick court, the Pit, and moved the center of student life there.

The new Chapel Hill Public Library opens at East Franklin and Boundary streets

The library left its rooms in the Hill House for a new building on the northwest corner of East Franklin and Boundary. When the library moved again in the 1990s, the building became home to the town museum.

Subject: Chapel Hill Public Library

The old Hill House on West Franklin is condemned and boarded up after the library leaves

With the public library gone to its new building on East Franklin, the run-down Hill House beside the Baptist church was condemned and closed up.

The undergraduate library named for R. B. House opens

The building put up in 1964 was occupied by the university in 1968 as the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library, named for the former chancellor.

Subject: UNC Libraries

UNC names its new bookstore building for Josephus Daniels

In 1968 the university named its newly completed bookstore, which housed the Book Exchange and other student services, for Josephus Daniels, class of 1885 and a long-time trustee.

UNC's new law school building is finished on South Road

A new building for the UNC School of Law was completed across South Road in 1968, part of the decade's boom of modernist construction along that street.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Vic Huggins sells his East Franklin hardware store but lets it keep his name

Huggins sold the store he had owned since 1944, and Huggins Hardware ran on under new owners until Miami Subs replaced it between 1989 and 1993.

Albert Coates suffers a stroke and is taken to Memorial Hospital

In late January 1968, while still teaching a criminal law class on a reduced schedule, Coates lost the use of his right arm and leg at home and was taken to Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, where he spent about a week in intensive care. He was home on Hooper Lane a month later, and his doctor told him not to return to the classroom.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Governor Moore recommends that the state and the trustees not appeal the Speaker Ban ruling

Three days after the decision, Governor Dan K. Moore said the state should not appeal the federal court's finding that the law was unconstitutionally vague and recommended that the trustees not appeal either, voicing his hope that they and the administration would keep the campuses from being exploited as outlets of discord and strife.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: Dan K. Moore

The UNC trustees adopt six temporary speaker rules in place of the voided regulations

A week after the ruling the trustees approved, over Senator Tom White's plea to proceed calmly, six interim rules on the manner of a speaker's appearance (a senior faculty member presiding at the chancellor's request, public forums, balanced views, audience questions, sponsorship by recognized student groups), with the items the court had struck removed, pending further study by the executive committee on March 8.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: William C. Friday · J. Carlyle Sitterson

Chancellor Sitterson rejects self-limiting hours for women students

Sitterson turned down the Women's Residence Council plan to free older women from dormitory closing hours, even though a student affairs board had approved a version of it. By late March he had named a nine-member joint committee to study the question.

Subject: South Building

The trustees' executive committee asks Governor Moore to name a subcommittee on a permanent speaker policy

Meeting in Charlotte, the Board of Trustees' Executive Committee voted to ask the governor to appoint a subcommittee to study speaker regulations and recommend a permanent policy to the full board in May. Senator Tom White, who agreed with the state's decision not to appeal, said the board had resolved nothing; President Friday hoped the matter would be settled by May.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: William C. Friday · Dan K. Moore

Principal George Pierce and Arthur Wells ask for basketball goals and better lighting

Cedar Grove principal George Pierce and advisory council chairman Arthur Wells asked the board for basketball goals, better lighting, doors for the boys' restrooms and supplies for the lunchroom.

People: Arthur Wells

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Chapel Hill holds a memorial march and two services for Martin Luther King Jr.

About 600 people, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and President William C. Friday among them, marched from Y Court to First Baptist Church on Roberson Street, where some 600 townspeople had gathered for a community service. The next day about 2,000 students and faculty attended a second service in Memorial Hall, with 11 o'clock classes called off.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · William C. Friday · C. Hugh Holman

Subject: Memorial Hall · First Baptist Church, Chapel Hill

Black Student Movement calls on Black students and university workers to stay away in mourning for King

The Black Student Movement handed sheets to Black university employees asking them to stay home on April 9 in mourning for Martin Luther King Jr., saying the university had done too little to honor him. Chancellor Sitterson let non-academic employees who wished it take a half day off.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Preston Dobbins

Chapel Hill aldermen approve an open housing ordinance 3 to 2 on first reading

Weeks after the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. and a petition signed by about 2,200 people, the Board of Aldermen voted 3 to 2 for a local ban on discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. The margin fell short of the two-thirds needed to pass on first reading, so the measure went to a second vote.

People: Sandy McClamroch · R. D. Smith · W. David Ethridge · Robert Varley

The county board presents a plan to end its dual school system to federal civil rights officials

After the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare told Orange County to give up freedom of choice and balance its schools by race, the board met with Walter Warfield of the Office for Civil Rights' education branch to present its plan for ending separate Black and white schools. The plan took effect in 1969-70.

Chapel Hill adopts North Carolina's first local open housing ordinance

On second reading the Board of Aldermen passed the open housing ordinance 4 to 0, effective immediately, making it a misdemeanor for an owner to discriminate by religion, race, color or national origin in selling or renting property in town. The penalty was a fine of up to $50 or up to 30 days in jail.

People: Sandy McClamroch · W. David Ethridge

Frank Wilkinson speaks on the UNC campus in Howell Hall

Three months after the ruling, Wilkinson gave his first permitted talk on the UNC campus, speaking on HUAC in Howell Hall at the invitation of the Carolina Political Union to about 35 people.

Part of Speaker Ban controversy, 1963–1968 · 29 events

People: Frank Wilkinson

Belton Edwards, a Black member, joins the county Board of Education

When A. B. Coleman resigned from the board in May 1968, Belton Edwards, whom Pender identifies as Black, took his place. The board had asked the county commissioners in 1965 for two Black members.

Albert Coates speaks at the law school graduation after teaching his last class

Recovering from his stroke, Coates gave the law school's commencement address and told the graduates that they and he were leaving together, since he had taught his final class. It ended a law teaching career at Chapel Hill that began in 1923.

Subject: UNC School of Law

John S. Paschal becomes the first full-time pastor of Orange Methodist Church

Paschal had served two years as a full-time student pastor before his reappointment as full-time pastor, a post he held until 1972.

Cone Mills honors Eno plant workers, most of them women, for fifty years at the mill

At the Eno Plant's seventieth anniversary celebration in Hillsborough, Cone Mills recognized at least six of its 385 employees for fifty or more years of work at the mill, five of them women.

Subject: Eno Mill

Drought drops University Lake to a sixth of its normal level and forces water rationing

With the lake nearly empty, the university spent about $100,000 on a pipe connecting Chapel Hill to Durham's water system and bought Durham water. Lawn watering and car washing were banned under penalty of fine, and there was concern that classes would be suspended before levels recovered by the end of 1969.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Binkley members move a small house to Carr Court for a community center

To help Carr Court, a poor Black neighborhood in Carrboro, start a youth program, Binkley members tore down an old house that blocked the way and moved in a small building given by University Baptist Church. By February 1969 it had a director, and Binkley paid the center's budget for eight years in cooperation with the Multi-Purpose Center.

Junior and senior women win self-limiting hours with their parents' consent

Sitterson went past the committee's report and let upper-class women set their own hours. A dispute over keeping the sign-out cards was settled by March 1969, when the choice was left to parents, and by 1972 almost no women were under closing hours.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

A new iron railroad bridge is built over the Eno at Hillsborough

An iron railroad bridge on poured concrete piers, bearing a plaque of the Virginia Bridge Iron Company of Roanoke dated 1969, is built across the Eno at the south end of the district near Gold Park.

Albert Coates publishes What the University of North Carolina Meant to Me

Coates's collection of autobiographical pieces followed him from a Smithfield boyhood through his student years and law teaching to the building of the Institute, with long sections on his work with the FBI and with the University's Extension Division.

Alethea Burt retires from teaching at Central High School

Alethea Burt, who had led Ridge Road School until it closed in 1951 and then moved with her pupils to teach the elementary grades at Central High School in Hillsboro, retired at the end of the 1968-69 year.

People: Alethea Anne Arrington Burt

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Alexander Julian opens Alexander's Ambition on Franklin Street

At 21, while his parents were away for a month, Alexander Julian leased a Franklin Street storefront across the street from his father Maurice Julian's store and opened his own shop, Alexander's Ambition.

People: Maurice Julian

Arthur Cleveland Nash, UNC's architect of the 1920s, dies in Baltimore

He died at the home of his daughter Katharine and her husband, Edward Caldwell, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Blyden Jackson joins UNC's English department and becomes its first tenured Black professor

Blyden Jackson joined the UNC-Chapel Hill English department in 1969 and became the university's first tenured Black faculty member. He established the study of African American literature at Carolina and later served as assistant dean of the Graduate School, working to recruit Black faculty and students.

People: Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Chi Omega joins its two East Franklin houses with a new center section

The sorority gained room by building a middle section linking the houses at 311 and 313 East Franklin.

Cogswell/Hausler design Arthur Cogswell's second house on Elliott Road

The firm's 1969 house for Arthur Cogswell at 308 Elliott Road is a flat-roofed steel-frame building, plain and white outside, whose glass-walled rooms wrap around a terrace with a heated pool. It won a North Carolina AIA award.

People: Arthur Cogswell · Werner Hausler

Engineering study for UNC recommends a reservoir on Cane Creek

After the 1968 drought left University Lake dangerously low, a study sponsored by the University of North Carolina and conducted by the engineering firm Hazen and Sawyer recommended damming Cane Creek. The Haw River, the proposed Jordan reservoir, an enlarged University Lake and the Eno were among the alternatives set aside.

People: Daniel A. Okun

George Brown Tindall is named a Kenan professor of history

UNC gave Tindall a Kenan professorship in 1969, five years after he became a full professor of history.

George F. Williams becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools

After G. Paul Carr resigned, the board called George F. Williams, superintendent of the Brunswick County schools, to lead the Orange County system in 1969. He served eight years as the county's eleventh superintendent.

People: George F. Williams · G. Paul Carr

Hank Anderson directs the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department

Henry "Hank" Anderson III, who took a master's degree in recreation administration at UNC in 1969, directed the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department from 1969 to 1977.

Jim Webb leaves City Planning and Architectural Associates and practices on his own

Webb withdrew from the partnership he had formed with Don Stewart and re-established his practice as James M. Webb, AIA and AICP. He kept his office in the old Methodist church on Rosemary Street for the rest of his career.

People: Don Stewart

Subject: Old Methodist Church (Rosemary Street)

North Carolina National Bank builds a new office running from Franklin to Rosemary Street

NCNB finished its expansion with a single building, three stories tall on Franklin Street and six on Rosemary. Its Franklin frontage took in the old Bank of Chapel Hill and the stores beside it.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

Orange County Schools open kindergarten classes and extend them to every five-year-old

Kindergarten began in the county schools with the 1969-70 reorganization, housed at Central Elementary and Efland-Cheeks. By the end of Superintendent Williams's term in 1977 it had grown from a partial program to one serving all five-year-olds.

People: George F. Williams

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough · Efland schools

Orange County Schools regroup pupils by grade across the Hillsborough schools to complete integration

For 1969-70 the county put all its pupils outside the Efland area into Hillsborough schools, each serving set grades: kindergarten at Central Elementary, grades 1-2 at Cameron Park, 3-4 at Central, 5-6 at the old Orange Junior High, 7-9 at a new Orange Junior High and 10-12 at Orange High. Efland-Cheeks took kindergarten through third grade and Efland Elementary grades 4-6, and Aycock, Cedar Grove and West Hillsborough dropped out as separate schools.

People: G. Paul Carr

Subject: Orange High School · Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough · Efland schools · Cameron Park School · Cedar Grove schools · Aycock School

Orange High School is enlarged with new buildings

Six years after it opened as the county's consolidated high school, Orange High near Hillsborough added buildings in 1969 under the new superintendent George F. Williams.

People: George F. Williams

Subject: Orange High School

Pete Galifianakis opens Hector's Restaurant on East Franklin Street

Hector's opened in 1969 under the slogan 'Famous Since 1969'. After a fire left only its outer walls, it was rebuilt and reopened in the mid-1990s.

Taylor Hall is completed and named for Dean Isaac M. Taylor

The University completed a medical school building in Chapel Hill in 1969 that honors Isaac Taylor, then dean of the School of Medicine.

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

The McCauley house, said to be part of the old Patterson inn and Nunn tavern, is razed for a Dunkin Donuts

A two-story house on West Franklin, once William W. McCauley's home, was torn down to clear the lot for a Dunkin Donuts. Bryant identifies it as an original section of James Patterson's inn, later Nunn's tavern and the John Canada School, moved here in stages from Franklin and Columbia.

The class of 1966 unveils a bronze Thomas Wolfe memorial beside Person Hall

An 850-pound bronze relief of an angel, designed by art professor Richard Kinnaird from an idea of Armistead Maupin, was unveiled at the northeast corner of Person Hall. It moved to New East in 1972 and later to a courtyard between Murphey and Greenlaw halls.

The university puts its hourly workers on a forty-hour week

Business officers had warned in 1957 that the change would come. The packet says the university finally made it in 1969.

Two wings designed by Archie Royal Davis are added to the Carolina Inn

The third major addition to the Carolina Inn, designed by Archie Royal Davis in 1969, was largely finished by commencement in May 1970. Two wings on the Pittsboro Street side held a new cafeteria, ballroom and larger kitchen and forty-five more guest rooms, and the main entrance moved from Cameron Avenue to Pittsboro Street.

Subject: The Carolina Inn

UNC head football coach Bill Dooley buys the Wood house on Fern Lane

Dooley bought the 1957 Ranch built for radiologist Ernest Wood and lived there until 1994.

West End Graded School closes

The West Hillsborough elementary school closed in 1969, perhaps because the new Central Elementary School took its pupils once schools were integrated. The main building later burned, leaving only the rear wings.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough · West End Graded School (West Hillsborough School)

UNC faculty publicly debate dropping ROTC, and a Faculty Council committee is named

An open faculty discussion of removing ROTC led to a Faculty Council committee under historian George V. Taylor, which proposed a Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense to take in naval and aerospace science while keeping ROTC as an option.

People: George Vanderbeck Taylor

Governor Scott orders Lenoir Hall reopened under Highway Patrol guard

After Chancellor Sitterson closed Lenoir Hall on March 5 during the foodworkers' strike, Governor Bob Scott ordered it reopened, sent at least 50 state patrolmen to Chapel Hill and mobilized a National Guard unit in Durham. The dining hall opened the next morning with more than 40 riot-equipped troopers and about 25 Chapel Hill police at its entrances while as many as 300 people picketed.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: Lenoir Hall

State troopers clear Manning Hall on Governor Scott's orders

About 75 state troopers ringed Manning Hall, the striking food workers' headquarters, on the afternoon of March 13 after Governor Bob Scott ordered it vacated. Students left before police arrived, and a crowd of up to 1,000 then rallied on the steps of South Building.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: South Building

Cedar Grove's advisory council petitions to keep the school open

As the county prepared to integrate its schools, the Cedar Grove Advisory Council brought the board a petition asking that Cedar Grove School run fully through 1969-70 and that the integration plan be reconsidered. The council said the community did not intend to give up its school.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Howard Lee and Roland Giduz meet in an open forum at the Newman Center

About 100 people heard the two mayoral candidates differ on the Mitchell Lane open storm drain, a local option sales tax, the Inter-Church Council low-income housing project and developers' seats on the Planning Board. Lee called the drain the town's responsibility; Giduz, twelve years an alderman, was asked why it had not been covered.

People: Howard N. Lee · Roland Giduz

Subject: Inter-Faith Council for Social Service

An early-morning fire guts the Tempo Room on East Franklin Street

A fire found at 4:15 a.m. destroyed Pete Galifianakis's Tempo Room in the basement under Town and Campus, which took smoke damage; three fire trucks had it out within an hour. Within days a "new" Tempo Room was serving beer in a basement at another spot.

Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government

Lee, Giduz and all seven candidates for the Board of Aldermen took questions at an open forum. Sharp exchanges came over a police review board, which Lee said he had never favored, and over whether the town should pay to cover the Mitchell Lane drain, on which Giduz cited county health tests and Steve Bernholz answered that 'the ditch stinks'.

People: Howard N. Lee · Roland Giduz · Robert Varley · Ross Scroggs

Subject: Institute of Government

Rebecca Clark carries voters to the polls in Howard Lee's mayoral campaign

Clark worked on Howard Lee's campaign for mayor, sending her son's Greyhound bus street to street to take voters to the polls, and helped count ballots by hand on election night. Lee won the May 6, 1969 election.

People: Howard N. Lee

Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall

More than 140 people packed the second-floor room of Town Hall for the 7:30 p.m. meeting at which town clerk Roberts swore in Lee after outgoing mayor Sandy McClamroch reviewed his ten years in office. New aldermen Joe Nassif, Mary Prothro, George Coxhead and Ross Scroggs were sworn in, and Lee's first board elected David Ethridge mayor pro tem.

People: Howard N. Lee · Sandy McClamroch · R. D. Smith · W. David Ethridge · Ross Scroggs

UNC hands campus dining to the SAGA Food Service contract

Two months after settling the spring strike the University signed a contract with SAGA Food Services on May 19, 1969, ending its own management of campus dining. SAGA laid off many temporary and part-time workers within weeks, which set up the second strike that autumn.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

Subject: Lenoir Hall

Cedar Grove School closes under the county's integration plan

The county board announced in May 1969 that Cedar Grove School would not operate in 1969-70. The school closed at the end of the 1968-69 year despite the community's appeals, and its pupils moved to schools in Efland and Hillsborough.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

President Friday keeps the open-door rule for dormitory visits

A committee simplified the visitation rules and asked that doors no longer be kept open during visits. A student affairs board agreed, but William Friday, wary of public reaction, kept the open-door requirement.

Superintendent Carr's final report recommends studying a merger of the county and Chapel Hill school units

In his closing report to the State Superintendent in 1969, G. Paul Carr asked the board to have outside educators study combining the county and Chapel Hill units. He also urged a supplementary school tax, written board policies, kindergartens for all children, a return to six-grade elementary schools and special education at the high school.

People: G. Paul Carr

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

County planning board recommends rezoning the Blackwood Station tract for Fiber Industries

The Orange County Planning Board unanimously recommended rezoning the 450-acre Blackwood Station tract from residential to industrial for a $100 million Fiber Industries plant promising 1,500 jobs. Board member Mark Burnham pressed for stricter performance standards, and commissioners Carl Smith, Ira Ward and Harvey Bennett had backed the Chamber of Commerce's pro-Fiber campaign.

People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner) · Harvey Bennett

Fiber Industries withdraws its New Hope Creek rezoning request; commissioners chairman Carl Smith blames opponents

Fiber Industries withdrew its request to rezone 450 acres near New Hope Creek for a plant after opposition from UNC, Duke and Mayor Howard Lee. County commissioners chairman Carl Smith blamed 'unintelligent intellectuals' and a town political 'machine', and said Lee, the town's Black mayor, was not serving Black residents by opposing the plant.

People: Howard N. Lee

Striking SAGA cafeteria workers vote 94 to 26 to join AFSCME

In the strike's third week the full-time SAGA food service workers marched from a noon rally at Wilson Library to the Student Union and voted 94 to 26 for representation by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. SAGA's regional director said mediation with the union would begin that weekend.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: Elizabeth Brooks

WCHL declines to publicize the Walk Against Hunger during the Community Chest drive

General manager Jim Heavner, that year's chairman of the local Community Chest, said WCHL would not give public service time to the Walk Against Hunger because the station gave all its spots to the Community Chest during its campaign.

Subject: WCHL radio

Two union officials and a striking worker are arrested at Lenoir Hall; Chancellor Sitterson pledges to subsidize workers SAGA does not rehire

On the strike's 24th day two union officials and a striking worker were arrested at Lenoir Dining Hall in the morning. Later that day Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson said the University would subsidize any workers SAGA did not rehire, after efforts to revive negotiations had stalled on the rehiring question.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: Lenoir Hall

Police charge pickets at Lenoir Hall; nine are arrested and four hurt

About 25 police charged a group of pickets and sympathizers at the north end of Lenoir Hall when they did not disperse. Nine people were arrested, including AFSCME official Gene Gore and graduate student John Wheeler, and four were treated at Memorial Hospital. The next day Mayor Howard Lee announced that town police were being withdrawn from the strike scene.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

People: Howard N. Lee

Subject: Lenoir Hall

The 31-day SAGA strike is settled

Union and management reached a settlement on Monday morning and the workers approved the contract unanimously, returning to work the next day. The contract ran to June 30, 1970 and provided job classification, seniority, a minimum four-hour day, ten paid holidays, ten sick days, an end to split shifts and a no-strike clause; the University promised to find jobs for the more than 50 workers SAGA planned to phase out by February 1, 1970.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

Eight men charged during the cafeteria strike appear in Orange County District Court

Howard Fuller of Malcolm X Liberation University, two of its students, AFSCME official Gene Gore and four others charged with disorderly conduct, riot, failure to disperse or interfering with officers during the strike appeared before Judge D. M. McLellan, who continued the cases to January 7, 1970 at the defendants' request.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

A daycare center for Ridgefield's working mothers opens, with infants at Binkley

When the Chapel Hill Housing Authority opened the Ridgefield Apartments for low-income families at the end of Estes Drive, Binkley joined the Authority and the Community Church to start a daycare center. Older children met at the Ridgefield community center and infants and toddlers in Binkley's nursery, which the church gave rent-free.

A government grant paves Fairview's streets and repairs its houses

Fairview, then outside the town and known to residents as a mud hole with bad septic systems and no paved streets or streetlights, had its streets paved in the 1970s with a government grant, which also paid to repair houses that lacked indoor plumbing.

Azalea Hill, designed by William Lanier Hunt, is planted at the Botanical Garden

The garden's first specific planting project, sponsored by the Men's Garden Club of Chapel Hill and designed by Hunt, neared completion as work-study students under Ken Moore set native azaleas along a new trail.

Subject: North Carolina Botanical Garden

Berryhill Hall is completed and named for W. Reece Berryhill

The University completed a medical school building in Chapel Hill in 1970 and named it for W. Reece Berryhill, who had been dean of the School of Medicine since 1941.

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Black public health students issue a statement of concerns to the school

Frustrated by the slow pace of integration, Black students asked the school for more Black students and faculty, courses for those planning to work in Black communities, a minority recruitment officer and a larger Black part in projects about Black communities. Dean Mayes named a committee, which recommended hiring a full-time minority recruiter.

Subject: UNC School of Public Health

Census counts Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro in

The 1970 census counted 57,567 people in Orange County, 26,199 in Chapel Hill (26,195 of them in the Orange County part) and 5,058 in Carrboro. Chapel Hill's population had more than doubled since 1960.

Chancellor Ferebee Taylor requires all entering freshmen, men and women, to live on campus for two years

A committee answered women's calls to live off campus by applying the same residence rule to both sexes. Before this men had to live on campus only as freshmen.

Cogswell/Hausler design Ridgefield Townhouses, subsidized housing off South Estes Drive

The firm's 1970 Ridgefield Townhouses, on a secluded tract at the end of South Estes Drive, are two-story brick and frame apartments built on a small budget but made to look like middle-class housing, set in courtyards around a community building and playground. The 44-unit neighborhood joined the town's public housing after Craig-Gomains and Lindsay Street (1967) and North Columbia Street (1968).

People: Arthur Cogswell · Werner Hausler

Cogswell/Hausler design a new sanctuary for the Community Church on Purefoy Road

In 1970 the firm added a two-story International Style sanctuary with stained siding and large south windows to the Community Church at 106 Purefoy Road, tied to the congregation's plain brick building of 1957 by George Matsumoto through a glass link. The integrated, nondenominational church had been founded in 1953 by the Rev. Charlie Jones and members who left Chapel Hill Presbyterian with him.

People: Arthur Cogswell · Werner Hausler · George Matsumoto · Charles M. Jones

Subject: Community Church of Chapel Hill

Daniel Okun serves as chair of the UNC faculty

Okun was chair of the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1970 to 1973, while still heading his department.

Fitch Lumber razes its early buildings and opens a self-service hardware store

All the first frame buildings on North Greensboro Street came down for new shops and sheds, and a large one-story hardware store was built south of the rail spur on ground once lined with mill houses.

Fred Battle directs the Hargraves Center

Fred Battle, a Lincoln High graduate of 1962, directed Chapel Hill's Hargraves Center, the former Negro Community Center on Roberson Street, from 1970 to 1987.

Part of The Hargraves Center and Chapel Hill’s Negro Community Center · 16 events

Subject: Hargraves Community Center

James J. Freeland remodels the William Whitted House on East Queen Street

In the 1970s Freeland remodeled the William Whitted House, one of several historic Hillsborough buildings he restored or moved.

People: James J. Freeland

Subject: William Whitted House

Mary Claire Engstrom surveys the family graveyards of Orange County

In the 1970s the Hillsborough historian Mary Claire Engstrom recorded cemeteries across the county, many of them private burial grounds on farms. Her index was kept at the Register of Deeds in Hillsborough.

Northside and Pine Knolls residents resist federal urban renewal

When Northside and Pine Knolls were targeted for urban renewal, residents confronted HUD and avoided the wholesale clearance seen in Durham's Hayti, winning home improvements and new construction instead.

Part of Historic Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro · 55 events

Robert Campbell moves to Rogers Road as the county landfill is built beside it

Campbell, who grew up in the Northside community of Chapel Hill, moved to Rogers Road in the early 1970s, as the Orange County landfill was going in next to the neighborhood. He later became president of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP.

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Roberta Jackson joins UNC's School of Education as its first Black tenure-track faculty member

Roberta Jackson joined the UNC School of Education in 1970, a year after her husband Blyden Jackson joined the English department, as the school's first Black tenure-track faculty member. She earned tenure in 1974 and became the first tenured Black woman in the university's Division of Academic Affairs.

People: Blyden Jackson

The Hill family sells parts of Riverbend Farm for Eno River State Park

In the 1970s and 1980s the Hills sold portions of their acreage along the Eno to the new state park, leaving about 27 acres with the house.

Subject: Eno River State Park

The Hillsborough Historical Society buys the Nash Law Office

After several private owners, the Hillsborough Historical Society bought the Nash Law Office on West Margaret Lane, the oldest law office in town. It had served as a music studio for the Nash and Kollock School until 1907.

Subject: Nash Law Office

The former Bellevue mill is sold again and runs as Falk Fibers and Fabrics

In the 1970s northeastern investors bought the mill again; directories list it as Falk, Fibers, and Fabrics, with a dyeing and finishing subsidiary at the same site.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

The former Murphey School becomes a nightclub

From some time in the early 1970s until the mid-1980s the old school was run as a nightclub. It stood empty from 1986.

Subject: Murphey School

The old St. Mary's School reopens as a private college preparatory school

The St. Mary's School building, closed since 1943, reopened in 1970 as a private college preparatory school.

Subject: St. Mary's School

Carolyn Kizer joins the UNC English faculty to head poetry writing

Kizer joined UNC's English department on February 1, 1970, as a visiting lecturer, to develop a poetry curriculum and head the poetry side of the creative writing program under Max Steele. She remained UNC's poet-in-residence until 1974.

People: Louis D. Rubin Jr. · Max Steele

The J. Spencer Love Clinics open in Memorial Hospital's new outpatient building

The $10.4 million Ambulatory Patient Care Center at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, dedicated on February 8, 1970, held the J. Spencer Love Clinics, 181 outpatient examination and treatment rooms named for the late founder of Burlington Industries. Burlington chairman Charles F. Myers Jr. and Love's widow, Mrs. Nathan M. Ayers, were among the guests.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Tom Bello is sworn in as student body president

Tom Bello, who ran as an independent, was sworn in as president of the UNC student body, with Bill Blue as vice president and Ann Rothe also among the new leaders of Student Government.

Student Legislature passes a resolution calling a class boycott over the invasion of Cambodia

On the night of Nixon's Cambodia announcement the Student Legislature passed a resolution urging students to boycott classes on May 6. Student Body President Tom Bello called the strike and a student body meeting the next day, before the Kent State killings turned the one-day boycott into a general strike.

People: Tom Bello

The old Methodist parsonage, later the Kappa Psi house, is torn down for a parking lot

A contractor demolished the brick house on West Rosemary Street that had been the Methodist parsonage and then the Kappa Psi house, turning down a $10,000 offer to move and restore it. Its owner, county commissioner Carl Smith, planned to lease the lot to the town for parking.

People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner)

Antiwar marchers lower the Naval Armory flag for the Kent State dead

During a 2,000-student march against the Cambodia invasion, protesters took down the flag at the armory to half staff for the students killed at Kent State; NROTC students pushed back and raised it again before the march moved on to South Building.

The student body meets in Polk Place and more than 4,000 march through downtown Chapel Hill behind four coffins

Tom Bello chaired an emergency meeting of the student body in Polk Place, then led a march half a mile long down Franklin Street behind four coffins for the Kent State dead; estimates ran from 4,000 to 6,000. That night 900 students planned the boycott, 2,500 held a candlelight memorial at McCorkle Place and marched again down Franklin Street, and strikers camped in Polk Place for an all-night vigil.

People: Tom Bello

The general faculty votes to let striking students take their grades as they stand or finish coursework later

With more than 4,000 students rallying outside, the general faculty meeting in Hill Hall overwhelmingly approved a substitute motion by Marvin Silver and Gerhard Lenski calling the strike 'a reasonable, peaceful and responsible course of action' and allowing final grades on work completed so far or delayed completion of course requirements, with a right of appeal. Faculty chairman Daniel Okun's letter the next day explained the policy as no penalties for strike absences and make-up exams for those who could not in conscience sit the scheduled exam.

People: Joe Straley · Daniel A. Okun · Oscar Knefler Rice

Subject: Hill Hall

Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in

Tom Bello's Student Government press release declared that rallies alone would not end the war and redirected the strike, which it said now involved well over half the student body, toward canvassing, petitions and visits to Congress. It announced a faculty panel on the war for 3 p.m. Monday, May 11 in Memorial Hall with Samuel Wells, James Leutze, Andrew Scott, Daniel Pollitt and David Lapkin.

People: Tom Bello · Daniel H. Pollitt

Subject: Memorial Hall

Students sit in at South Building and hand Chancellor Sitterson a petition of 800 names confessing to the disruption policy

Seventy-five to 100 students occupied the South Building lobby for over an hour to protest the trustees' disruption policy and its use against three students charged after the December cafeteria strike. Three were admitted to Chancellor Sitterson's office with a petition of 800 UNC students indicting themselves for violating the policy during the strike's first days; Sitterson said the matter lay with President Friday. Bello and the strike steering committee condemned the sit-in.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · William C. Friday · Tom Bello

Subject: South Building

Binkley votes to join the new American Baptist Churches of the South

Binkley took part in forming the American Baptist Churches of the South and approved membership on July 18, 1970. Robert Seymour, Sam Hill, Henry Hellmers and Bob DesJardins helped organize the body, most of whose churches were Black congregations.

People: Robert E. Seymour

Burwell School is listed in the National Register

On September 15, 1970 the National Park Service listed Burwell School in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Burwell School

Tom Bello asks students to nominate candidates for chancellor

With Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson returning to teaching, student body president Tom Bello issued an open letter asking students to send names to the Advisory Committee on the Chancellorship, chaired by state Rep. Ike F. Andrews, by November 1.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

UNC dedicates Greenlaw Hall

The university dedicated Greenlaw Hall in Edwin Greenlaw's honor on October 4, 1970. Construction had begun in 1966.

Durham motorcycle gang member charged with murder in the Cates stabbing

Durham County officers arrested Ronnie Broadwell, 28, a member of the Durham Storm Troopers motorcycle gang, at Watts Hospital early on the morning of the stabbing, and he was charged with murder and held without bond in the Orange County Jail. By November 24 four white men were in jail and a second man, Bryan King of Durham, faced an assault charge.

People: James L. Cates Jr.

UNC opens an inquiry into the killing of James Cates after young Black men press its leaders

On the Sunday after the killing a group of young men went to President William Friday's home to raise concerns about Cates's death and the university's handling of it, and they met other administrators on November 23. The university then opened an investigation, and its six-page report was dated December 10, 1970.

People: William C. Friday

Mayor Howard Lee leads a memorial march for James Cates

About 65 people joined a memorial march for James Cates led by Mayor Howard Lee and Alderman R. D. Smith, four days after the killing.

People: Howard N. Lee · R. D. Smith · James L. Cates Jr.

Black residents question the police handling of the Cates killing

Black residents met at the Roberson Street Center to discuss how police handled the stabbing, young Black residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro asked the Justice Department to investigate the campus police, and a fund was started to hire extra counsel for the prosecution. Vice Chancellor Joseph Eagles and Assistant Chancellor Claiborne Jones began reviewing the campus police response.

Subject: Hargraves Community Center

Three Durham men bound over to the grand jury in the Cates killing

At a preliminary hearing in Hillsborough, Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Nelson and William Johnson were bound over to the Orange County Grand Jury on murder charges and held without bond. Medical testimony indicated that immediate care could have prevented Cates's death.

Students march on the Naval Armory and serve an eviction notice on the NROTC

Led by two 1969 West Point graduates, student protesters marched to the armory and served a mock eviction notice, arguing the revised ROTC curriculum only made military training easier to accept.

Chapel Hill aldermen approve a student Christmas street party on Franklin Street

At student body president Tom Bello's proposal, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a Christmas street party on Franklin Street for Saturday, December 12, 1970, run by Student Government with the town and the Merchants Association, on condition that the students set it up and cleaned up afterward.

A ten-story chemistry laboratory tower is added to Venable Hall

In 1971 the university added a ten-story laboratory tower for chemistry to Venable Hall, one of the modernist buildings of its 1960s and early 1970s building boom along South Road.

Subject: Venable Hall

Brick mason William "Smitty" Smith does his first stone repair, at the Carolina Inn

Trained on brick, William E. Smith did his first rock work in 1971 or 1972 on the Pittsboro Street side of the Carolina Inn after watching an older mason on Cameron Avenue for an hour. He went on to run his own masonry business for more than fifty years.

Subject: The Carolina Inn

Christopher Fordham serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine

Fordham, who had earned a certificate in medicine at UNC in 1949, was dean of the School of Medicine from 1971 to 1979 and for part of that time also vice chancellor for health affairs. The Area Health Education Centers program began under him.

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Daphne Athas publishes Entering Ephesus, a novel set in Carrboro and Chapel Hill

Her coming-of-age novel, set in Carrboro and Chapel Hill during World War II among intellectuals, poor southerners and Greek immigrants, was named one of the ten best novels of the year by Time magazine.

Don Stewart designs the State Employees Credit Union office on Pittsboro Street

Stewart's 1971 credit union building on Pittsboro Street uses stone walls and roof planes that seem to float above them, a mild form of modernism.

People: Don Stewart

Joe Hackney serves as an assistant district attorney in Orange and Chatham counties

After clerking for Justice Frank Huskins of the state Supreme Court, Joe Hackney worked as an assistant district attorney in Orange and Chatham counties from 1971 to 1974.

John Bunting co-captains Carolina's ACC championship football team

Linebacker John Bunting was co-captain, with quarterback Paul Miller, of the 1971 Tar Heels, who went 9-3 and won the Atlantic Coast Conference title. He was named first-team All-ACC and the team's defensive MVP.

People: Bill Dooley

Kenan Laboratories open for the chemistry department

The chemistry department's Kenan Labs opened in 1971, a building project Little led as chair to give the growing faculty laboratory space.

Orange High School gets a gymnasium

The Orange High gymnasium, the fourth building on the campus plan, is dated 1971 under Superintendent George F. Williams.

People: George F. Williams

Subject: Orange High School

Orange and Alamance agree on Orange children attending Alamance schools

Worried that growing numbers of western Orange children rode Alamance buses to Mebane schools, the board released to Alamance all children living within a mile of the county line and let those farther out stay if they chose. It also allowed out-of-county attendance if families paid tuition and provided transportation.

Peter James Lee begins a fourteen-year rectorship at the Chapel of the Cross

Lee left in 1984 on his election as Bishop of Virginia and was followed by Stephen Elkins-Williams.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

The Flower Ladies move off the main sidewalk to NCNB Plaza

In 1971 the Flower Ladies moved their stands from the Franklin Street sidewalk into the NCNB Plaza passage and the alley next to the Intimate Bookshop.

The School of Public Health hires William Small as its first full-time minority recruiter

Small, a Wilmington native and North Carolina College chemistry graduate who had earned his M.S.P.H. at the school in 1969, left a State Board of Health chemist's job to take the post. Minority enrollment rose from twenty to forty-nine by the fall of 1972, and the school then turned to recruiting Black faculty.

Subject: UNC School of Public Health

The former Navy Hall becomes UNC's admissions office

The university moved its admissions office into the old Navy Hall, then the Faculty Club, in 1971; it was renamed Jackson Hall in 1992.

Woody Durham calls Carolina football and basketball on the radio

Durham, a 1963 UNC graduate, was the radio play-by-play voice of Tar Heel football and men's basketball for 40 years, calling more than 1,800 broadcasts.

UNC announces Vermont Royster will join its faculty as Kenan professor of journalism and public affairs

The university announced that Vermont C. Royster, retiring as editor of The Wall Street Journal, would join the UNC faculty the next September as Kenan professor of journalism and public affairs. He taught journalism and political science in Chapel Hill until 1981.

Chancellor Sitterson tells Tom Bello the university will control student activity fees

A dispute over student activity fees began when Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson told student body president Tom Bello that the university would keep control of spending all student activity fees. In March Student Government took a 90-page report to the trustees' executive committee asking it to confirm Student Government's authority over the fees.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Student Donnie Riddle is stabbed to death at Orange High School

Donnie Riddle was killed in the Orange High bus parking lot while trying to shield the assistant principal from three former students who had dropped out. The school stayed closed until February 7, when enough officers were on hand to keep out anyone without business there.

Subject: Orange High School

Chapel Hill's Board of Adjustment turns down a ten-pump gas station on West Franklin Street

The Board of Adjustment voted unanimously to deny Kenan Oil Company a special use permit to clear the site of an older service station and build a ten-pump self-service gas pavilion. The company sued, and in December 1971 Superior Court upheld the denial.

Trial of three Storm Troopers for the death of James Cates opens

Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Paul Nelson and William Johnson went on trial in Orange County Superior Court in Hillsborough before Judge Thomas Cooper on second-degree murder charges, reduced from first degree. District Solicitor Herbert Pierce prosecuted, and prosecution witnesses placed the three defendants around Cates with weapons.

People: James L. Cates Jr.

All-white jury acquits three men in the killing of James Cates

A jury of 11 men and one woman, all white, found Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Paul Nelson and William Johnson not guilty after about an hour and a half of deliberation. The defense called no witnesses.

People: James L. Cates Jr.

The Hazel-Nash House is listed in the National Register

On March 31, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Hazel-Nash House in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Hasell-Nash House

Eagle Lodge is listed in the National Register

On April 16, 1971 the National Park Service listed Eagle Lodge in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Eagle Lodge

Howard Lee is re-elected mayor over Jack Maultsby

Lee won a second term against three challengers, leading restaurant co-owner Jack Maultsby 1,999 to 1,352 with two-thirds of the vote counted on election night; NCpedia gives his final share as 64 percent. The same ballot narrowly approved a Chapel Hill-Carrboro bus system in Chapel Hill, which Carrboro voters rejected.

People: Howard N. Lee

Playmakers Theatre (Smith Hall) is listed in the National Register

On June 24, 1971 the National Park Service listed Playmakers Theatre (Smith Hall) in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Smith Hall (Playmakers Theatre)

Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church and Churchyard is listed in the National Register

On June 24, 1971 the National Park Service listed Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church and Churchyard in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church

The Old Orange County Courthouse is listed in the National Register

On June 24, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Old Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

The Lipid Research Clinics coordinating center opens in the NCNB building in downtown Chapel Hill

A National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grant set up the program's Central Patient Registry and Coordinating Center at the School of Public Health. From offices in the NCNB building downtown it set testing standards and analyzed blood fat data from clinics in the United States, Canada, Israel and the Soviet Union, and Soviet scientists later came to Chapel Hill to work on it.

Subject: UNC School of Public Health

Binkley gives a room for a daycare center for developmentally disabled children

In July 1971 Binkley lent a room to the Orange County Association of Retarded Children for a daycare program. Starting with five children it grew into a five-day school with 18 pupils and seven teachers, sponsored by the Orange Mental Health Association and the church, before moving in June 1978 to county space at the Northside Center.

General Assembly gives North Carolina Memorial Hospital its own board of directors

Legislation passed in July 1971 created a board of directors for the hospital and separated it administratively from the School of Medicine, whose dean it had answered to since 1956.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital) · UNC School of Medicine