Chronology

Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm

Working from plans by Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a former Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, builder Carl Ellington and the African American masons Willis, Alfred Sr. and Alfred Jr. Barbee raised the Andrews House from stone gathered on the farm, starting in 1965 and finishing in 1967. It is Sidler's only building in the United States and one of the few architect-designed Modernist houses in rural Orange County.

People: Roberta C. Andrews

Subject: Bolin Brook Farm (Troy and Roberta Andrews House)

Brian Shawcroft designs a modernist house on Davie Lane for chemist Donald A. Seanor

Architect Brian Shawcroft designs a modernist house in the Glendale subdivision for Donald A. Seanor, an English-born research chemist at the Chemstrand Research Center; it was commissioned in 1963 and dated 1965.

Central Elementary School is built north of West Hillsborough

Planned as a segregated school for Black pupils next to Central High School, the flat-roofed brick and concrete building designed by Archie Royal Davis was finished a few years before desegregation and then served an integrated student body. Additions followed in 1975 and during the 1990s.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Chapel Hill Weekly founder Louis Graves is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Louis Graves (1883-1965), founder, publisher and editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Chase Hall, the campus's first modernist building, goes up on south campus

Chase Hall, a dining hall designed by Milton Small and Associates of Raleigh and built in 1965, is a glass and steel International Style building that appears to hover over a recessed concrete base. The book calls it the first modernist building erected on the campus; Small had studied under Mies van der Rohe.

Clyde Eubanks sells his drugstore to Benjamin and Ellyn Courts, who rename it Courts' Drugs

The Courts kept the East Franklin store where it was for about two years, then moved it to University Square East in 1967 when North Carolina National Bank began expanding.

People: Clyde Eubanks

Col. and Mrs. Jacob Moon buy the Ruffin-Hill House

In 1965 the Ruffin-Hill House on St. Mary's Road, with 2.96 acres, was conveyed to Col. and Mrs. Jacob Moon.

Subject: Ruffin-Hill House

Don Stewart's Carmichael Auditorium is completed as the state's largest single-span building

Stewart designed Carmichael Auditorium, finished in 1965, with a roof carried on steel beams held by steel tie rods anchored in the ground. The book says it was the largest single-span building in North Carolina when it was built.

People: Don Stewart

Subject: Carmichael Auditorium (Carmichael Arena)

Eric Van Loon chairs the Carolina Political Union

A Daily Tar Heel profile in May 1966 reported that Van Loon, a junior from Nashville, had spent the past year as chairman of the Carolina Political Union, vice president of the debating team, National Student Association campus coordinator, a Morrison resident adviser and treasurer of the Carolina Symposium.

Fire destroys the home economics building at Aycock School

The home economics building at Aycock School in Cedar Grove burned, with the loss put at $15,000 to $20,000 and fully insured through the state. The county board had approved the building in 1948.

Subject: Aycock School

James L. Godfrey chairs the history department

Godfrey chaired UNC's Department of History from 1965 to 1973.

Lucius and Nellie Cheshire buy and restore the Commandant's House

Eula Cole, who had bought the house from John W. Hill's estate in 1938, sold it in 1965 to Lucius and Nellie Cheshire. By 1972 they had restored it to excellent condition.

Subject: Hillsborough Military Academy

Morrison Residence Hall opens, named for Cameron Morrison

The university completed Morrison Residence Hall, a men's dormitory, in 1965 and named it for former governor Cameron Morrison, an influential trustee who had backed the university's expansion program in the 1920s.

Only 7 percent of the county's Black pupils attend an integrated school

At the start of the 1965-66 school year, about 7 percent of the Orange County system's Black students were enrolled in an integrated school.

Orange County schools start the federal Title I program

Frank Giles, named first assistant to the superintendent and office manager, took charge of the federal Title I program, whose $166,801.40 budget came on top of the county school budget.

Paul and Isabel Smith sell the Intimate Bookshop to Wallace Kuralt

The Smiths sold the East Franklin bookshop to Kuralt but kept running a rare-book department inside the store until the end of 1968.

People: Isabel Smith

Subject: The Intimate Bookshop

Ruth Anderson Stephens becomes the first Black graduate of UNC's School of Nursing

Ruth Anderson Stephens completed the School of Nursing's master's program in nursing education and administration in 1965, the school's first African American graduate.

Stewart and Anderson build a new office on Estes Drive as Webb stays in the old Methodist church

In the mid-1960s Don Stewart and Bob Anderson bought a lot on Estes Drive and built a new office for the firm, while James Webb returned to the old Methodist church on Rosemary Street, the firm's former office, where he worked until he retired.

People: Don Stewart · James M. Webb

Subject: Old Methodist Church (Rosemary Street)

The Historic American Buildings Survey documents the Berry Brick House

In 1965 the Historic American Buildings Survey recorded the Berry Brick House, the earliest surviving brick house in the original town, built about 1805 for Rhody Berry.

Subject: Berry Brick House

The Historic Hillsborough Commission buys the Burwell School

The commission bought the house from the Spurgeon children and began restoring it to look as it had after the 1848 enlargement.

Part of Orange County’s nineteenth-century academies · 102 events

Subject: Burwell School

The Occoneechee Steakhouse and a ten-room motel go up on South Churton Street

Among the restaurants that grew up around Daniel Boone Village was the Occoneechee Steakhouse, across South Churton Street, with a second small motel of ten rooms built beside it.

The former Military Academy dining hall is turned into a church

The one-story board-and-batten building beside Barracks Road, thought to be a surviving piece of the long frame service building that stood behind the barracks, became a church building in 1965.

Subject: Hillsborough Military Academy

UNC names its Chapel Hill gymnasium for William D. Carmichael Jr.

Four years after his death the university named the gymnasium at Chapel Hill for Carmichael. NCpedia lists buildings named for him on three campuses, the television building at Greensboro, the gymnasium at Raleigh and the auditorium at Chapel Hill.

Subject: Carmichael Auditorium (Carmichael Arena)

William F. Little chairs the chemistry department

Little, who had come to Carolina as a chemistry instructor in 1956, became department chair in 1965 at 35. He hired young scholars and nearly doubled the faculty to 30.

Jim Medford is elected president of the campus YMCA

A Daily Tar Heel photograph taken on the steps of South Building shows Jim Medford as the newly elected YMCA president with the other officers chosen in the campus Y election.

Subject: University YMCA

The county board asks the commissioners to back a desegregation plan and Black members on school boards

Facing federal compliance rules, the board met the county commissioners and asked for two Black members on the Board of Education, integration of schools, buses and staff, Black members on district committees and signature of the federal compliance form.

"Get out of Vietnam" is painted on the gun outside the Naval Armory

Overnight, someone lettered an antiwar slogan on the antiaircraft gun on the armory lawn; NROTC officers called it a childish prank.

Harper and Row publishes John Ehle's The Free Men, an account of the Chapel Hill protests

Ehle's nonfiction book traced the 1963–1964 civil rights campaign in Chapel Hill through three of its leaders, John Dunne, Pat Cusick and Quinton Baker, from the first pickets at a cafe to mass arrests and long prison sentences.

People: Pat Cusick · John Dunne

Cedar Grove families answer the county's freedom-of-choice forms

The county sent 401 school-choice forms to Cedar Grove School families at the end of the 1964-65 year. Fifty-two made no choice, three asked for all-white Aycock Elementary and four for Orange Junior High.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Howard Mumford Jones wins the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Howard Mumford Jones, who had taught at the University of North Carolina from 1925 to 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for O Strange New World (1964), a study of American culture from the discovery through the Jacksonian era. He was then retired from Harvard.

Three Cedar Grove families ask to move their children to the all-white Aycock School

At the end of the 1964-65 school year, under its freedom of choice plan, the Orange County Board of Education sent school choice forms to the parents of every school-age child. Of the 401 forms sent to families at Cedar Grove School, the area's school for Black children, three asked for transfer to the all-white Aycock Elementary School and four to Orange Junior High School.

Subject: Aycock School · Cedar Grove schools

The board names the first principals of Stanford Junior High and Central Elementary

Paul Raspberry was chosen to lead the new Stanford Junior High, and Tarleton Davis was picked to open Central Elementary as its first principal.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

The Ku Klux Klan calls a rally in a field across from the General Sherman Restaurant

Robed Klansmen handed out bills in Hillsborough for a night rally at Interstate 85 and US 70, where scores of hooded members were expected in a field across from the General Sherman Restaurant.

The county board adopts a school desegregation plan

After most of a year spent trying to reach a plan acceptable under federal rules, the Orange County Board of Education adopted a desegregation plan on September 7, 1965.

A House committee names the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan unit in Orange County

The House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating the Ku Klux Klan, named the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan organization in Orange County. Sheriff C. B. Knight told the Daily Tar Heel that three Klan meetings had been held in the county recently.

Bob Powell is named executive director of the Carolina Forum

The Daily Tar Heel's list of student government appointments made by Student Body President Paul Dickson gives Bob Powell as executive director of the Carolina Forum for the 1965-66 year.

People: Paul Dickson III

Medford is named to the student government State Affairs committee

Student Body President Paul Dickson's committee appointments, printed in the Daily Tar Heel, put Jim Medford on the State Affairs committee along with Henry Patterson and Taylor Branch.

People: Paul Dickson III

Eunice Milton is listed among the members of the Order of Valkyries

When the Order of Valkyries, described by the Daily Tar Heel as the highest women's honorary organization on campus, tapped new members in November 1965, Eunice Milton was named among the seven continuing members. She appears again in the honorary's March 1966 list.

Adelaide Walters chairs the Inter-Church Council's housing committee

After leaving the Board of Aldermen, Adelaide Walters chaired the housing committee of the Inter-Church Council for Social Service (later the Inter-Faith Council) from 1966 to 1973. Her papers deal with civil rights for Black residents of Chapel Hill and with urban and regional planning.

Subject: Inter-Faith Council for Social Service

Arthur Cogswell designs a pyramid-roofed house for Marion Townend

At 411 Clayton Road in Coker Hills, Cogswell designed a house in 1966 for Marion Townend under a tall pyramidal roof. A skylight at the peak lights the central living room and the rooms around it, whose light shifts as the sun moves.

People: Arthur Cogswell

Baptist Association rejects Binkley membership

The local association denied admission over Binkley’s open membership policy.

C. Hugh Holman serves as UNC provost

Holman, dean of the Graduate School from 1963 to 1966, served as provost of the University of North Carolina from 1966 to 1968 and later as special assistant to the chancellor.

Charlie Scott enters UNC as its first Black scholarship athlete

Charlie Scott, a basketball player from Harlem, enrolled at the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1966 as the first Black athlete on scholarship there.

Don Stewart designs the Chapel Hill Public Library building on East Franklin Street

Around 1965 library committee head Mrs. Richmond P. Bond asked Stewart about a traditional design; he said he was not a traditional architect and suggested Durham's William Van Sprinkle, but the committee kept Stewart and his modern plan. The 1966 building uses sloping native stone walls and stained wood to fit among the older faculty houses on East Franklin Street.

People: Don Stewart

Subject: Chapel Hill Public Library

Eric Van Loon becomes assistant to the student body president

After Robert S. Powell Jr. was elected student body president in the spring of 1966, the Daily Tar Heel reported that Van Loon had newly taken on the roles of student legislator, National Student Association delegate and presidential assistant to Powell. He had run unsuccessfully for student body treasurer the previous spring.

People: Robert S. Powell Jr.

Eunice Milton serves as president of the campus YWCA

The Daily Tar Heel called Milton the YWCA president when it reported the filing of the Speaker Ban suit on April 1, 1966, and the former YWCA president when it reported on the case in May.

People: James A. Medford

Fire destroys Kemp Nye's record store on East Franklin Street

Kemp's record shop burned out in 1966. A Burger King later opened in a small store on the site.

Hillsborough makes its first annexations beyond the one-square-mile town

In 1966 the town began extending its limits past the square mile platted in 1754, first taking in homes on Cameron and Ruffin streets to the northeast and the Bellevue mill and its village to the west. Annexations have continued since, most of them under ten acres.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

Interstate 85 is completed south of Hillsborough

The interstate linking Charlotte and Durham by way of Greensboro was finished in 1966 about a mile and a quarter south of downtown, and a commercial strip grew up along South Churton Street between the town and the interchange.

James J. Freeland opens the Daniel Boone Inn and restaurant at South Churton Street and I-85

A 1966 plat of the "Daniel Boone Inn and Restaurant Tract", eleven acres lying behind the Shell station on the northeast side of the interchange, shows a pond, a general store, a restaurant later known as the D. B. Cafeteria and a long two-story motel. It was the start of Daniel Boone Village.

People: James J. Freeland

Subject: Daniel Boone Village

John E. Greenbacker Jr. leads the Dialectic and Philanthropic literary society

The federal court's findings in Dickson v. Sitterson list Greenbacker as president of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Society, one of the recognized student organizations whose officers brought the Speaker Ban suit. The Daily Tar Heel likewise named him as Di-Phi president among the ten student leaders who wrote to Chancellor Sitterson on March 1, 1966.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

John E. Greenbacker Jr. serves as associate editor of the Daily Tar Heel

The masthead of the December 7, 1966 Daily Tar Heel lists Greenbacker as associate editor under editor Fred Thomas. He wrote signed opinion pieces, and a letter in the same issue takes issue with his Sunday column profiling the SDS leader Gary Waller.

People: Gary Waller

Subject: The Daily Tar Heel

Max Steele returns to UNC as writer-in-residence

Max Steele came back to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1966 as writer-in-residence. He was made an associate professor in 1968 and a full professor in 1972.

Northside Elementary closed as the school system integrated

The Caldwell Street school closed soon after the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools began mandatory integration in 1966, and the building was turned into office space.

Part of School desegregation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1959–1967 · 24 events

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools · Northside School

Stuart Matthews serves on the steering committee of the UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society

The federal court's findings in Dickson v. Sitterson list Matthews as a member of the steering committee of Students for a Democratic Society, one of the recognized campus organizations whose officers brought the suit. The Daily Tar Heel adds that Matthews and Gary Waller invited Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker to speak under SDS sponsorship on January 3, 1966.

People: Gary Waller · Frank Wilkinson · Herbert Aptheker

The Mary Manning house on East Franklin Street, where Arthur Nash boarded, is torn down

Nash lodged with Mary Manning from his arrival in 1922 until his own house was finished in 1926. The house stood at what is now 507 East Franklin Street, first numbered 402.

The Presbyterians sell their East Franklin manse to Gordon L. McAndrews

After 77 years of ownership, the church sold its manse at 513 East Franklin, the house William Mercer Green built in the 1840s and Charles Phillips later owned, to McAndrews.

Carolina Forum chairman George Nicholson answers Professor W. C. George on the Forum's speakers

Nicholson told the Daily Tar Heel that the Forum invited both liberals and conservatives, naming Strom Thurmond and Ross Barnett among its recent guests, after the segregationist UNC professor W. C. George said it largely ignored conservative racial views.

People: W. C. George (Wesley Critz George)

The Botanical Garden Foundation is incorporated, with William Lanier Hunt as its founder

Hunt, a member of the garden's advisory board, led the effort to form a private foundation to raise money, hold land and speak for the North Carolina Botanical Garden. At its first annual meeting in 1967 he was elected its first president, and 291 people and 18 organizations joined as charter members.

Subject: North Carolina Botanical Garden

Students for a Democratic Society invites Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker to speak at UNC

The UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society invited Frank Wilkinson, who had pleaded the Fifth Amendment when questioned in California about Communist activities, and the Communist theoretician Herbert Aptheker to speak on campus. After the trustees barred both men, Student Government under Paul Dickson, the Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Forum, the YMCA and YWCA, the Di-Phi and the Carolina Political Union joined SDS in renewing the invitations.

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

People: Frank Wilkinson · Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies · University YMCA

Dickson, Nicholson and McCrary invite Herbert Aptheker to speak on campus

Three of the students who later sued invited Aptheker to speak at Chapel Hill on March 9, 1966 under the sponsorship of Student Government, the Carolina Forum and the Daily Tar Heel. Aptheker accepted two days later.

Part of Wall speeches at the campus line, 1966 · 19 events

People: Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker

Cedar Grove's advisory council asks for a painted lunchroom and a paved playground

Oscar Beasley and Arthur Wells of the Cedar Grove Advisory Council asked the board to paint the lunchroom, hang doors on the girls' restroom and give the school a hard-surfaced playground. The board granted part of the request.

People: Arthur Wells

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Gary Waller joins a student panel on the Speaker Ban in Memorial Hall

The Daily Tar Heel reported that student body president Paul Dickson presided over a noon meeting of students and faculty in Memorial Hall, with a panel of four that included Waller, Carolina Conservative Club president Wilson Clark and the SDS faculty advisers Joseph Straley and Lewis Lipsitz. The meeting adopted a resolution about four and a half hours before the trustees' executive committee voted 8 to 3 to bar Herbert Aptheker from speaking.

People: Paul Dickson III

Subject: Memorial Hall

UNC trustees' executive committee bars Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker from the Chapel Hill campus

Meeting in Governor Dan K. Moore's office in Raleigh, the executive committee of the UNC board of trustees voted 8 to 3 to deny university facilities to Aptheker and Wilkinson and suspended all other invitations covered by the speaker ban law until the full board adopted rules. Earlier that day more than 800 students and faculty at a Memorial Hall meeting had backed Aptheker's right to speak.

People: Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker · Dan K. Moore

Subject: Memorial Hall

Nicholson criticizes SDS over the Aptheker invitation while backing the principle

The Carolina Forum chairman called the Students for a Democratic Society invitation to Herbert Aptheker ill-timed and planned for sensationalism, and said the Forum had joined the invitation only in support of the principle of free speech.

People: Herbert Aptheker

Nicholson rebuts the Conservative Club chairman's charge about Forum speakers

Answering Carolina Conservative Club chairman Wilson Clark, Nicholson said the Forum's budget was 2,000 dollars rather than 6,000, that it had invited conservative speakers, and that John Birch Society founder Robert Welch was coming to campus later that month.

J. Carlyle Sitterson serves as chief administrator of UNC at Chapel Hill

Sitterson was the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from February 16, 1966 to January 31, 1972. His records as chancellor cover desegregation and the federal HEW lawsuit, the Speaker Ban law, protest against the Vietnam War and campus unrest.

Stuart Matthews and Gary Waller write to Chancellor Sitterson inviting Herbert Aptheker

On the day the full board of trustees adopted new speaker regulations, Matthews and Waller wrote to Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson for the UNC Chapel Hill chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, asking that Herbert Aptheker be allowed to speak on campus about the war in Vietnam on March 9. The letter set out his publications, speaking engagements and his Supreme Court passport case.

Part of Wall speeches at the campus line, 1966 · 19 events

People: Gary Waller · J. Carlyle Sitterson · Herbert Aptheker

The UNC Board of Trustees adopts visiting-speaker procedures under the amended Speaker Ban

Acting under G.S. 116-199 and 116-200, the full Board of Trustees adopted procedures requiring recognized student groups to clear invitations to covered speakers with the chancellor. The students complied with them when they renewed the Wilkinson and Aptheker invitations, and the court later found the procedures as vague as the statute.

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

People: William C. Friday · J. Carlyle Sitterson

Gary Waller becomes chairman of the UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society

A UNC Libraries exhibit states that Waller, a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, was vice chairman of the UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and became chairman when Jim McCorkel resigned on February 2, 1966 to spend more time on his graduate studies.

Eight student groups re-invite Frank Wilkinson under the trustees' new speaker rules

The day after the full board of trustees adopted speaker regulations on February 28, Paul Dickson and leaders of the Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, the Daily Tar Heel, the Di-Phi, Students for a Democratic Society and the Carolina Political Union formally told Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson that Wilkinson was invited for March 2 and Aptheker for March 9. Wilkinson spoke to the Duke Bar Association in Durham that day.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker · George E. Nicholson III · Robert S. Powell Jr. · James A. Medford · Eunice H. Milton · John E. Greenbacker Jr. · Eric Van Loon · Gary Waller · Stuart Matthews

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies · University YMCA

Barred from Carroll Hall, Frank Wilkinson speaks to about 350 people at the Hillel House

That evening campus security officer Arthur Beaumont, acting on the chancellor's orders, kept Wilkinson, Paul Dickson and about 200 students out of Carroll Hall, and the group moved to the Hillel House on Cameron Avenue, where almost 350 people heard Wilkinson speak on HUAC. He told them a test case with several plaintiffs would be prepared at once.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Paul Dickson III

Herbert Aptheker gives his evening talk at the Community Church

Kept off campus, Aptheker gave his evening talk to about 350 people at the interdenominational Community Church on Purefoy Road. Paul Dickson then announced a Free Speech Defense Fund to pay for a lawsuit.

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

People: Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker

Subject: Community Church of Chapel Hill

Herbert Aptheker speaks to students across the McCorkle Place wall

At noon Paul Dickson led Aptheker, invited by SDS and the Committee for Free Inquiry, onto McCorkle Place near the Confederate monument, where campus police chief Arthur Beaumont halted Dickson's introduction and warned of arrest. Aptheker crossed the low stone wall to the Franklin Street sidewalk and spoke to a crowd estimated at 2,000 to 3,000 on the campus side.

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

People: Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker

Subject: McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar)

Student leaders ask the chancellor to let Wilkinson and Aptheker speak on campus

Paul Dickson and the heads of Carolina Forum, the YMCA, the YWCA, Di-Phi, the Carolina Political Union and SDS wrote to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson asking that Wilkinson speak on March 23 and Aptheker on March 25, or on later dates.

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

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Paul Dickson III · George E. Nicholson III · Robert S. Powell Jr. · James A. Medford · Eunice H. Milton · John E. Greenbacker Jr. · Eric Van Loon · Gary Waller · Stuart Matthews

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies · University YMCA

Gary Waller debates Wilson Clark at the first Di-Phi Senate debate

The Daily Tar Heel announced that Waller and Carolina Conservative Club president Wilson Clark would be the principal speakers at the inaugural debate of the Di-Phi Senate that evening in New West, on whether human rights should supersede property rights in a modern society.

People: John E. Greenbacker Jr.

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Bob Powell wins the runoff for UNC student body president

Powell, the Student Party candidate, beat University Party candidate Teddy O'Toole by 2,401 votes to 1,993 in the runoff, two days before the Speaker Ban suit was filed.

Students and the two speakers file Dickson v. Sitterson against the Speaker Ban

Minutes after Sitterson refused the students' request, Paul Dickson and eleven other student leaders, joined by Wilkinson and Aptheker as plaintiffs, sued Sitterson, President William C. Friday and the trustees in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Attorney McNeill Smith took the case without fee.

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

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson · Paul Dickson III · Herbert Aptheker · William C. Friday · George E. Nicholson III · Robert S. Powell Jr. · James A. Medford · Eunice H. Milton · John E. Greenbacker Jr. · Eric Van Loon · Gary Waller · Stuart Matthews · Frank Wilkinson

Chancellor Sitterson makes student leaders erase a taped meeting

The Daily Tar Heel reported that Paul Dickson, Eric Van Loon and George Nicholson met Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson in his office for about thirty minutes, and that Van Loon carried a tape recorder. When Sitterson found the conversation was being recorded he made them play the tape back and erase it, saying it upset him that they had not mentioned it.

People: Paul Dickson III · George E. Nicholson III · J. Carlyle Sitterson

Powell is named to the student-faculty committee on visiting speakers

The Daily Tar Heel listed Bob Powell first among the members of the student-faculty committee on visiting speakers, in the same story that printed the students' request to the chancellor.

Powell takes office as UNC student body president

The Daily Tar Heel said the new president's inauguration was set for April 14, 1966. Its April 15 issue describes Bob Powell acting as student body president with Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson at a campus clothing drive.

People: J. Carlyle Sitterson

The Sharyn Lynn Shoppe moves into the former Village Cafeteria at 122 East Franklin Street

The Sharyn Lynn Shoppe, a women's clothing store, moved from farther along East Franklin Street into 122 East Franklin, the address the Village Cafeteria had used. The move marks the end of the cafeteria.

Time magazine names Hardison one of the country's outstanding college teachers

Time magazine featured Hardison, then teaching English at Chapel Hill, as one of the country's outstanding college instructors.

Hortense McClinton joins the UNC School of Social Work as the university's first Black faculty member

McClinton turned down a grant-funded UNC offer in 1964 and accepted a better-funded position in the School of Social Work in July 1966. She was the only Black faculty member at UNC for three years.

Old East is listed in the National Register

On October 15, 1966 the National Park Service listed Old East in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Old East

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.

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

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.

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

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

Black students march through downtown Chapel Hill the day after Martin Luther King Jr. is killed

Led by Preston Dobbins of the Black Student Movement, Black students marched through the downtown stores in sympathy for King and in protest of his assassination. The march ended with the burning of several Confederate flags on Franklin Street and outside the Kappa Alpha house.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 took over a Franklin Street storefront and opened his own shop, Alexander's Ambition, at the site where Julian's now operates.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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)

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