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- 1960s
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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.
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UNC foodworkers strike a second time
About 250 of UNC's 275 cafeteria workers, organized as the UNC Non-Academic Employees Union, struck SAGA Food Services on November 7, 1969 over pay, job reclassification, and the firing of workers for union activity. They voted on November 21 to affiliate with AFSCME, and the strike was settled in December after Ralph Abernathy visited the strikers and Black students from across the state threatened to converge on the campus.
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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.
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The Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission issues Development Alternatives for Chapel Hill
The regional commission, working for the Town of Chapel Hill through the state Division of Community Planning, published three alternative land-use schemes for each of twelve parts of the Chapel Hill Planning District and for the whole town and its surroundings. The report was paid for in part by a federal urban planning grant under Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954 and was meant to start discussion toward a comprehensive plan, not to recommend any one scheme.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 1970s
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Killing of James Cates
James Cates, a Black Chapel Hill man, was stabbed to death in the Pit at UNC in November 1970, and three Durham men were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury in 1971. Memorial marches followed, a remembrance coalition formed, the Justice Department opened a cold-case investigation in 2022, and UNC dedicated a memorial to him in the Pit that year.
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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.
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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.
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Orange–Chatham Comprehensive Health Services begins
Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services began in 1970 as a joint venture of UNC's Division of Health Affairs and a local community action program, bringing federally funded primary care to rural residents. UNC staffed its health centers, including Prospect Hill and Haywood-Moncure, from September 1970, and the program later became Piedmont Health.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The university requires all entering freshmen, men and women, to live on campus for two years
A committee answered women's requests to live off campus by applying one residence rule to both sexes: two years on campus for entering freshmen and one for transfer students. Pamela Dean writes that Ferebee Taylor accepted this part of the report in 1970. Before this men had to live on campus only as freshmen.
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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.
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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.
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Tom Bello is sworn in as student body president
Tom Bello 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.
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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.
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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.
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UNC student strike of
After the Kent State shootings and the invasion of Cambodia, UNC students began a class boycott on May 5, 1970, and more than 4,000 people marched through downtown Chapel Hill the next day. Classes were not cancelled; the faculty instead voted to let striking students take grades on work completed or finish courses later.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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UNC dedicates Greenlaw Hall
The university dedicated Greenlaw Hall in Edwin Greenlaw's honor on October 4, 1970. Construction had begun in 1966.
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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.
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James Cates is killed outside the UNC Student Union
James Lewis Cates Jr., 22, a Black Chapel Hill resident, was stabbed outside the UNC Student Union shortly before 2 a.m. during an all-night dance, in a clash with members of Durham's Storm Troopers motorcycle gang, and died at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Three white men charged in his death were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1971.
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UNC opens an inquiry into the killing of James Cates after a group of young 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A feasibility study proposes turning the Carrboro mill into a shopping bazaar
With town officials and the owners looking for a use for the empty mill, a 1971 feasibility study recommended reopening it as a shopping bazaar. Nothing came of it for lack of money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peter James Lee becomes rector of the Chapel of the Cross
Lee led the parish until 1984, when he was elected a bishop in the Diocese of Virginia. Stephen Elkins-Williams succeeded him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Ruffin-Roulhac House is listed in the National Register
On August 5, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Ruffin-Roulhac House in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Ayr Mount is listed in the National Register
On August 26, 1971 the National Park Service listed Ayr Mount in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Sans Souci is listed in the National Register
On August 26, 1971 the National Park Service listed Sans Souci in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Nash Law Office is listed in the National Register
On September 28, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Nash Law Office in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Nash-Hooper House is listed in the National Register
On November 11, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Black Student Movement holds a first-anniversary memorial for James Cates
The Black Student Movement and the Afro-American Society of Chapel Hill High School gathered at noon at the Confederate Monument and marched across campus to the Pit in memory of Cates. The service also protested the killing of William Murphy by a highway patrolman in Ayden.
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The governor appoints a commission to study the future of the university's water and sewer systems
Governor Robert W. Scott named a Utilities Study Commission to weigh whether the University of North Carolina should keep, sell or otherwise dispose of the water and sewer systems it operated for Chapel Hill and Carrboro. On May 28, 1976 the commission concluded that divesting most of the university's utility holdings was the best course.
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The Chapel Hill Historic District is listed in the National Register
On December 16, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Chapel Hill Historic District in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Andy Griffith sets up a scholarship for Carolina drama and music students
Griffith established a scholarship fund in his name for promising dramatic art and music students at Carolina, which the university says continues today.
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Bernard G. Greenberg becomes dean of the School of Public Health
The faculty's clear choice after Mayes stepped down, Greenberg set out to repair the school's ties with state and local health agencies and revived the Alumni Association and the newsletter The Body Politic. He pressed for a new building throughout his deanship but retired in 1982 before it was funded.
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Carr Court residents form their own committee to run the community center
By 1972 the people of Carr Court had formed the Carr Court Administrative Committee, which wrote the job description for the center's director and hired one. The book counts this growth in local leadership among the measures of the project's success.
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Charles E. Daye joins the UNC School of Law as its first Black tenure-track professor
Charles E. Daye, a Durham native, came to the UNC law faculty in 1972 from Covington & Burling as the school's first African American tenure-track professor. He taught torts, housing and community development and administrative advocacy, and advised the Black Law Students Association from 1972 until 2014.
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Daniel Boone Village grows into an amusement park
By 1972 the Daniel Boone Recreation Park had a roller rink, an ice rink, a ski lift, a refrigerated toboggan slide, an antique car and wax museum, a fort, an amphitheater and a campground, circled by a small railroad on which costumed performers staged holdups. With relocated log cabins and false-front shops it looked like a frontier town, and Freeland was dubbed the "Walt Disney of Hillsborough."
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Dooley's Tar Heels go 11-1 and win a second straight ACC title
Bill Dooley's 1972 team set the school record for wins in a season, going 11-1, repeated as Atlantic Coast Conference champion and played in the Sun Bowl. Ron Rusnak was a first-team All-America, and the team finished 12th in the AP poll.
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Efland and Orange Grove volunteer fire departments are incorporated
As the Orange Rural Fire Department's board worked from 1971 to set up fire districts covering the whole county, rural communities formed their own departments: the Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Department in 1972 and the Efland Volunteer Fire Department on September 8, 1972. New Hope followed in February 1973.
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Frank Porter Graham is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972), first president of the consolidated University of North Carolina and later a United States senator, was buried in the cemetery.
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Hortense McClinton begins teaching a course on institutional racism
In 1972 McClinton launched a course on institutional racism in the UNC School of Social Work.
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Jeff MacNelly wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Jeff MacNelly, a former Chapel Hill Weekly cartoonist then drawing for The Richmond News Leader, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning at the age of 24.
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Jon Condoret designs a Modernist house for Drs. Jerome and Jacqueline Harris
Chapel Hill architect Jon Andre Condoret, an Algerian-born graduate of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, designed an L-shaped brick and cedar house with clerestory windows for Duke physicians Jerome and Jacqueline Harris on a wooded tract of nearly fifty acres northeast of Hillsborough.
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Marinda Dunnigan McPherson is recorded singing songs she learned from her family
McKellar Israel recorded McPherson in the fall of 1972 and the fall of 1973, singing children's games, play party songs and spirituals she learned from family members, among them songs she first recalled hearing her grandmother Marinda Hart sing about 1920. Israel also interviewed her and her husband David McPherson about community events and history.
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North Carolina funds UNC's TEACCH autism program as a statewide system of regional centers
State funding in 1972 created a regional-center system for TEACCH, the autism program Eric Schopler had developed at UNC-Chapel Hill, providing clinical services, training and research across North Carolina.
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Orange County residents spend about $10 million a year on shopping outside the county
Consultants put Orange County's 1972 spending on clothing, furniture and other shoppers' goods at $40.4 million, with a net outflow of just over $10.1 million to stores outside the county. They expected the new University Mall to need $13.65 million in such sales.
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Phillips Russell publishes These Old Stone Walls
Russell's last book, a collection of stories and historical anecdotes about Chapel Hill, appeared in 1972, two years before he died.
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Restaurateur Edward "Papa D" Danziger is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Edward "Papa D" Danziger (1893-1972), whose Chapel Hill restaurants fed generations of students, was buried in the cemetery.
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Richard E. Whitted becomes Orange County's first Black county commissioner
Richard E. Whitted, born in Hillsborough, became the first Black member of the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 1972.
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Rogers Road environmental justice
In 1972 officials placed the county landfill on Eubanks Road beside the historically Black Rogers Road community, promising it would run about ten years. It was expanded instead and did not close until 2013, and residents' organizing through the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association helped win a sewer line for the neighborhood, completed in 2019.
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Rogers Road landfill opens
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County opened a shared, unlined county landfill on Eubanks Road, built in late 1972 beside the historically Black Rogers-Eubanks community, whose residents were told it would close after about ten years. It was expanded repeatedly and ran for 41 years, closing in June 2013.
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The James Tilley farmhouse is moved farther back from NC 54
In 1972 the Tilley I-house was shifted to a spot farther from NC 54, a move the report says damaged its historic character.
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The Orange County landfill campaign
The Eubanks Road landfill opened beside the Rogers Road community in 1972; four decades of expansions, lawsuits and the neighborhood's demands ended with its closure in 2013.
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The Pegasus, a gay bar, operates in the former Cave on West Franklin Street
In 1972 the basement bar once called the Cave, under the Record and Tape Center near Carrboro, ran as the Pegasus, a gay bar with a jukebox and a back room for dancing. A letter in the Daily Tar Heel called it defunct by February 1973.
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The Town of Hillsborough buys the Ruffin-Roulhac House for its town hall
The Ruffin-Roulhac House and its outbuildings, empty since the 1920s, were sold to the Town of Hillsborough in 1972. The town rehabilitated them as its town hall complex by 1975.
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The university begins admitting women under the same standards as men
Under pressure from students and parents, and facing a federal mandate against sex discrimination, the university dropped its separate admission standards for women. By then about 6,500 women made up more than thirty percent of the students.
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UNC School of Medicine launches the Area Health Education Centers program
The AHEC program began in 1972 with three regions under an 8.5 million dollar federal contract with the UNC School of Medicine, to train and place health professionals across North Carolina. The General Assembly funded a statewide network of nine regions in 1974, and all nine were running by 1975.
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UNC abolishes the office of dean of women
The university ended the dean of women's office in 1972, after twenty-six years under Katherine Kennedy Carmichael. She stayed on as associate dean of students for supportive services.
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UNC names its new history building Hamilton Hall
The university named the new building occupied by its History Department for J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, founder of the Southern Historical Collection.
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Walter Royal Davis serves as a UNC trustee
Davis sat on the university's board of trustees and in the 1970s argued that proceeds from the state's sale of the university's utilities should go to the university.
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Betty Smith is buried in the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery
Smith died in January 1972 after being moved to a convalescent home in Shelton, Connecticut. A funeral mass was said at St. Thomas More Church in Chapel Hill and she was buried in the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery.
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N. Ferebee Taylor serves as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill
Nelson Ferebee Taylor was the chief administrative officer of the Chapel Hill campus for eight years. His office's records deal with desegregation, the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare lawsuit and consent decree, and campus development.
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The Chapel of the Cross is listed in the National Register
On February 1, 1972 the National Park Service listed the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Chapel Hill's Community Appearance Commission reports on how downtown should grow
After several years of study, the Community Appearance Commission sent the Planning Board and Board of Aldermen a set of policies for the central business district: keep its small village scale, protect views, step down to the neighborhoods and allow taller buildings only where they would not stand out. The aldermen referred it to the CBD Study Committee, which approved most of it.
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Moorefields is listed in the National Register
Moorefields was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It was the earliest listing among the six rural Orange County properties the 1993 county survey found on the Register.
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Chapel Hill aldermen voted to buy the Eubanks Road site for the county landfill
Three months after the Chestnut Ridge site was abandoned, the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to buy a 200-acre tract on Eubanks Road for $235,000. An unlined landfill was then built on about 80 acres of it, next to the Black Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood.
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New Hope Improvement Association sues to stop the Eubanks Road landfill
Opponents of the landfill formed the New Hope Improvement Association, which drew about 500 members, and filed a lawsuit in late September 1972. The suit was denied in early October.
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The Commandant's House is listed in the National Register
The castellated brick house built for the Hillsborough Military Academy's commandant, the academy's only major surviving building, was entered in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
RENA's chronology records that Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee, Mayor Robert Wells Jr. and county commission chairman H.D. Bennett signed the full landfill agreement. Residents remember Lee promising that their road would be paved and that the filled site would become a recreation center for them.
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The Burger Chef in downtown Chapel Hill closes
The downtown Burger Chef shut in December 1972, one of several eating places the 1973 merchants survey found changing hands or going out of business.
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Binkley defends its open membership to the state convention's Committee of Eleven
When the Baptist State Convention named a Committee of Eleven to study churches that took members not baptized by immersion, Binkley replied that refusing other baptisms would treat the church as divided and that expelling such churches would violate local autonomy. The convention did not pass expulsion that fall and defeated a voting-rights amendment in 1974.
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Black Student Movement march remembers James Cates
A Black Student Movement march in memory of James Cates was photographed by Les Todd, whose print is now held in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at Wilson Library.
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Cat's Cradle reopens on West Rosemary Street
After about a year closed, Cat's Cradle reopened in 1973 at 405½ West Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill, its second home, run by Marcia Wilson and Bill Smith. Its first home had been a small basement room near campus.
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Chancellor Taylor spends a night in Winston Residence Hall
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and other administrators stayed overnight in Winston Residence Hall to draw attention to overcrowded student housing. The same year Winston became UNC's first room-by-room coed residence hall.
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Eno River State Park is created
After years of citizen opposition to damming the Eno for a reservoir, Governor James Holshouser accepted the first tracts for Eno River State Park in June 1973, including 90 acres donated by Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Bernheim. The first 1,000 acres opened to the public in 1975 along the river in Orange and Durham counties.
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Henry W. Lewis serves as director of the Institute of Government
Lewis succeeded to the directorship of the Institute of Government in 1973 and held it until he retired from the faculty in 1979.
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Hillsborough designates its local historic district
In the same year the Hillsborough Historic District was nominated to the National Register, the town designated a local historic district.
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John L. Sanders leaves the Institute to become the University of North Carolina's vice president for planning
Sanders gave up the directorship of the Institute of Government in 1973 to become vice president for planning of the University of North Carolina system, where he helped draft its first long-range plan. Henry W. Lewis directed the Institute in his absence.
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Powell moves from the North Carolina Collection to the history faculty
Powell left the North Carolina Collection to teach North Carolina history on the UNC faculty, where he stayed until 1986 and taught more than 6,000 students.
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The Community Center is renamed for William M. Hargraves
Chapel Hill's Roberson Street Center, built in the 1940s as the town's segregated Negro Community Center, was renamed in 1973 the William M. Hargraves Recreation Center. Hargraves, a Black resident who had served on the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Commission, had died in an automobile accident.
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The Southern Oral History Program is founded
UNC's Southern Oral History Program was founded in 1973 under historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, its founding director until 2011, and was first housed in the history department. Its interviews with Southerners, now more than 7,500 recordings kept in Wilson Library, include many Chapel Hill and Orange County narrators.
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The William Rand Kenan Jr. Laboratories of Chemistry are dedicated
The university dedicated the William Rand Kenan Jr. Laboratories of Chemistry, and the chemistry faculty marked the occasion with two days of short courses on their current research.
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The Woods family takes over the King Street hardware store that becomes Dual Supply
Wesley Woods, who had worked in the West King Street store when it was a Western Auto, bought the business and renamed it Dual Supply. His family ran it from 1973.
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The county school board sells the closed Caldwell School property
After the school board asked its attorney in November 1971 to move toward a sale, it accepted $5,143.52 from the sale of the Caldwell School property. Pender later wrote that the building was demolished and the land went back to its owner.
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The university starts an affirmative action program for women and minority faculty
Federal officials had found the university out of compliance, and only sixteen percent of the faculty were women. Chancellor Taylor gave the officer's duties to Vice Chancellor Douglas Hunt on top of his other work.
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UNC counts nearly 17,800 students: 7,131 on campus, 7,526 single students off campus and 3,107 married
University figures gathered for the downtown study showed 7,131 students living on campus (fraternities and sororities included), 7,526 unmarried students living off campus, about 1,400 of them in Granville Towers, and 3,107 married students. Just over half of the students who answered the survey owned a car.
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A town field survey measures 816,030 square feet of commercial space in downtown Chapel Hill
A January 1973 survey of every building along Franklin and Rosemary streets between Hillsborough Street and Merritt Mill Road counted 816,030 square feet of commercial space. Retail took 387,900 square feet and offices 265,790; about 56,000 square feet stood empty, most of it new office space in the NCNB and University Square buildings or old upstairs walk-ups.
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Downtown Chapel Hill counts 155 retail establishments and 37 places to eat or drink
The January 1973 survey found 155 retail businesses downtown: 90 selling clothing, furniture, jewelry and other comparison goods, 54 convenience stores including 37 restaurants, bars and carry-outs, two car dealers and nine service stations. Belk-Leggett-Horton on West Franklin was the largest store; there were also two movie theaters.
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The Black Student Movement opens Upendo Lounge in Chase Hall
Upendo, Swahili for love, opened as a Black student lounge in Chase Hall under the Black Student Movement, with a dedication and a party. It replaced an old mini-union and was open to the whole campus.
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Heartsease is listed in the National Register
On April 11, 1973 the National Park Service listed Heartsease in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Robert M. Leary and Associates delivers its study of downtown Chapel Hill to the town committee
The Raleigh planning firm Robert M. Leary and Associates, working with Hammer, Greene, Siler Associates of Washington and Bair, Abernathy and Associates of Florida, sent its finished Central Business District study to Chapel Hill's CBD Study Committee. The committee had commissioned it as new shopping centers threatened downtown trade and as the town reconsidered its thoroughfare plan.
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Douglass Hunt becomes UNC's Vice Chancellor for Administration
Hunt took the post on July 1, 1973, overseeing personnel, the registrar and institutional research and serving as the university's first Affirmative Action Officer. He held it until July 1, 1980, when the position was eliminated.
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The Hillsborough Historic District is listed in the National Register
The original one-square-mile town laid out in 1754 around Churton and King streets entered the National Register in 1973 as the Hillsborough Historic District. Its survey and nomination were brought up to date in 2014.
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The county board buys land on Orange Grove Road for the new Grady Brown School
The board decided to buy up to twenty acres on Orange Grove Road for a new elementary school, the Grady Brown School. Its 1974 budget request put $1,900,270 toward the building.
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The county board names Orange High's new football stadium for coach Glenn Auman
The board named the new football stadium for Glenn Auman, who had coached for many years and taught high school classes.
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Howard Lee wins a third term as mayor by a landslide
In Chapel Hill's first November municipal election Lee carried every reporting precinct, taking 5,001 votes to 1,109 for graduate student Douglas Holmes, whom he had also beaten in 1971. NCpedia puts his share at 89 percent.
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Chase Park and Elliott Woods apartments are completed
The Inter-Church Council's housing corporation finished Chase Park and Elliott Woods, 79 federally assisted low-income apartments on Elliott Road in Chapel Hill. Construction began in January 1973, and the complexes took applications from June 1974.
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H. G. Jones becomes curator of the North Carolina Collection
Jones succeeded William S. Powell as curator of UNC's North Carolina Collection and adjunct professor of history. He held the curatorship until he retired in 1994.
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Joe Hackney and Bob Epting begin practicing law together in Chapel Hill
Joe Hackney began practicing law in Chapel Hill with Bob Epting in 1974, handling family law and civil litigation in the courts of Orange and surrounding counties.
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Orange County Rape Crisis Center is founded
The organization established local support and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence.
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Orange County builds Grady A. Brown Elementary School
The county put up Grady A. Brown Elementary, a centrally heated and air-conditioned K-5 building of about 67,800 square feet on a 20-acre site near Hillsborough, designed by Croft Inc. under Superintendent George F. Williams.
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Robin Andrews chairs the Orange County Bicentennial Steering Committee
Roberta (Robin) Andrews chaired Orange County's steering committee for the national Bicentennial. She also raised money to restore the Burwell School in Hillsborough.
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Spanky's Restaurant takes the place of Sloan's Drugstore on East Franklin Street
Sloan's, open since 1948, gave way to Spanky's, one of eight restaurants that opened on East Franklin in these years.
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The Carolina Theatre divides its auditorium and adds a second screen
The East Franklin movie house split its viewing area in two to show two films at once.
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The Faculty Council sets up a committee on the status of women
Faculty women backed Professor Rhea Stambaugh's proposal. The committee, which included men, reported each year to the council and the chancellor.
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The University of North Carolina gives Albert Coates an honorary doctor of laws
The University awarded Coates an honorary LL.D. in 1974, three years after Duke University had given him the same degree.
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The produce stand Rachel Crook started at Merritt Mill Road gives way to a used-car lot
After about 35 years, the stand at the corner of West Franklin and Merritt Mill Road closed, and Brooks & Tobin put a used-car lot there. Crook's Corner later opened on the same corner.
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Carolyn Kizer and Po Fei Huang read Chinese poems in Greenlaw Hall
Kizer, then UNC's poet-in-residence, and Po Fei Huang, director of East Asian language and literature at Yale, read and chanted Chinese poems and translations in 101 Greenlaw as part of a week of programs on East Asia.
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A gasoline truck fire and explosion damage the Orange County jail
A fuel truck caught fire and exploded while at the county jail on Court Street, causing heavy damage to the building.
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John A. Parker retires as head of the planning department
Parker retired in 1974 at sixty-five after leading the Department of City and Regional Planning since its start. More than a hundred academics, alumni and friends met at a conference in Chapel Hill that spring to mark the occasion, with a retirement banquet in May 1974.
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Chapel Hill Transit begins service
Chapel Hill's municipal bus system began running on August 1, 1974, after Mayor Howard Lee and UNC Chancellor Ferebee Taylor cut the ribbon, with eight town, campus and park-and-ride routes. Carrboro was not yet served.
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The ArtSchool is founded
Jacques Menache, who had earned an MFA at UNC the year before, opened the ArtSchool in Carrboro in August 1974 to offer art classes. By 1978 the Carrboro ArtSchool also ran a gallery theatre, and the organization later became The ArtsCenter, which moved to Roberson Street in 2023.
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Lambeth presents the charter for the Order of the Tar Heel One Hundred
Thomas Lambeth, chairing a committee to study an adjunct to the Board of Trustees, presented its recommendation: a charter for the Order of the Tar Heel One Hundred, renamed the Board of Visitors after 1980.
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The Carolina Gay Association forms
Students who had met weekly since February 1974 as the Gay Awareness Rap Group won recognition from UNC's Dean of Student Affairs in early September 1974 and took the name Carolina Gay Association. The group met in Craige dormitory and in 1976 sponsored the first Southeastern Gay Conference.
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Vandals break or topple forty to fifty monuments in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
On the night of November 27, 1974, vandals broke or pushed over forty or fifty gravestones, and police patrolled for a week. Cemetery committee chair Shirley Marshall then faulted the town for ignoring earlier requests about ownership and repairs.
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A. L. Stanback School becomes a middle school
The former Central High School, used as A. L. Stanback elementary school since 1968, became a middle school in 1975 and served until the late 1980s, when it closed for several years.
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Albert Coates publishes By Her Own Bootstraps, on women and the law in North Carolina
Growing out of his family law teaching, the book traced how North Carolina law on women's political rights and domestic freedoms had changed, and gave much space to the Equal Rights Amendment debate, which Coates supported.
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Annie Dillard wins the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Dillard won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, drawn from her private writings about the surroundings of her home in Roanoke, Virginia. This was years before she lived in Hillsborough.
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Carolyn A. Wallace heads the Southern Historical Collection and the Manuscripts Department
Wallace, born in Hillsborough, served as curator of the UNC library's Manuscripts Department and director of the Southern Historical Collection from 1975 to 1987, following James I. Copeland.
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Central Elementary School in Hillsborough gets a large addition
Ten years after the first building went up, the county added about 18,700 square feet to Central Elementary under Superintendent George F. Williams, bringing the school to roughly 44,600 square feet.
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Charles Kuralt wins a second Peabody Award, for On the Road to '76
Kuralt received his second personal Peabody Award for On the Road to '76, a weekly CBS News series begun July 4, 1975, visiting places and events in each of the fifty states for the Bicentennial.
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Chris Stamey and Will Rigby form Sneakers
While attending UNC, Stamey teamed with drummer Will Rigby to form the power pop band Sneakers, later joined by guitarist Mitch Easter; the group played Max's Kansas City in New York in 1976 and broke up soon after.
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Geologist John J. W. Rogers comes to UNC to take a Kenan chair
Rogers left Rice University, where he had chaired the geology department and been master of Brown College, to take a Kenan chair in geology at UNC and moved to Chapel Hill.
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Jones Grove adds a rear wing to its church
In the mid-1970s the congregation built a rear addition holding the pastor's office, restrooms and a baptismal pool, and covered the sanctuary walls with wood-look paneling.
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Lester Asheim becomes the School of Library Science's first William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor
Asheim, a former dean of the University of Chicago's Graduate Library School and former director of two American Library Association offices, came to UNC in 1975 as the library school's first Kenan Professor and held the chair until 1984.
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Mickey Ewell opens Harrison's, a basement bar with a dress code, on Franklin Street
Harrison's, a downstairs bar in downtown Chapel Hill named for its owner Harrison "Mickey" Ewell, opened with a doorkeeper and a dress code aimed at an uptown crowd, and turned away men in tank shirts on its opening night.
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Orange County Schools reorganize into K-5 elementary schools with a middle school and junior high
In 1975-76 the county dropped the two-grade elementary centers of 1969, returning to elementary schools of kindergarten through fifth grade, with grades 6-7 in a middle school and 8-9 in a junior high.
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Residents campaign to save Carrboro's former textile mill from demolition
In spring 1975 an Atlanta firm took an option to buy the vacant former Alberta mill, tear it down and build a shopping center. Frances Shetley and other Carrboro residents circulated a petition against its demolition, the firm let its option go, and the owner turned to a reuse plan that made it Carr Mill. The mill, the depot and the brick grist mill were nominated together to the National Register of Historic Places in June 1975.
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Seven Orange County Presbyterian churches form a cooperative in place of the Eno cluster
A four-church cluster of Eno, Efland, Fairfield and Bethlehem was dissolved in 1975 and replaced by a cooperative of seven: those four plus Hillsborough, Little River and New Hope. The churches worked together especially on youth programs.
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Southern Real Estate and the EDY Corporation form the Carr Mill partnership
After an Atlanta buyer dropped its option, the Charlotte firm Southern Real Estate proposed reusing the mill as a shopping center with a new grocery and drug store building beside it. The EDY Corporation put in the property, valued at $300,000, as general partner, and three Southern Real Estate principals joined as limited partners.
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The Daniel Boone amusement park closes and Boone Square replaces its north end
By the end of the 1970s the rides were gone, leaving only the campground, ice rink and amphitheater, and the northern part of the property was rebuilt as the Boone Square shopping center; a big-box supermarket stood on the ride site by 1983. Daniel Boone Village became a center for antique shops and restaurants, with the Big Barn Convention Center for community events.
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The Ruffin-Roulhac House and its outbuildings are fitted up as Hillsborough's town hall
After the Town of Hillsborough buys the Ruffin-Roulhac House at 101 East Orange Street in 1972, it rehabilitates the house and its outbuildings, empty since the 1920s, as a town hall complex by 1975.
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UNC Lineberger Cancer Center is established
UNC established a cancer research center in 1975 under founding director Joseph Pagano. Later named for the Lineberger family of Belmont, who helped fund its 1984 building, it earned NCI comprehensive status in 1990 and is North Carolina's only public one.
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Protesters stop Klan leader David Duke from speaking in Memorial Hall
Black students filled the pit of Memorial Hall and kept Ku Klux Klan representative David Duke, invited by the Union Forum, from giving his speech. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor called the disruption a transgression of one of the university's highest traditions.
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David Clift begins a ten-year pastorate at Orange Methodist Church
No pastor appointed to Orange Methodist had stayed as long as Clift. During his ten years the congregation grew as Chapel Hill spread outward.
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Orange County and the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro create the Orange Water and Sewer Authority
The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the governing boards of Chapel Hill and Carrboro incorporated OWASA under Chapter 162A of the North Carolina General Statutes. It was created as a public body to acquire, consolidate and operate the three existing water and sewer systems serving the area.
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Chapel Hill churches and residents sponsor Vietnamese refugee families
By July 1975 Chapel Hill residents had sponsored two Vietnamese refugee families and expected more. Four churches pledged about $1,500 for a family sponsored by UNC historian Thomas Reefe, and volunteers were directed to INFO, a referral service in the Inter-Church Council building.
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