Chronology

Students start night classes for the Black men who served the dormitories

Asked for help by the young Black workers who cut firewood and carried water in the dormitories, students began teaching them reading and arithmetic in what were called moonlight schools. Under Frank Porter Graham at the campus YMCA the classes grew to take in history, English, writing, debating, home sanitation and the Bible.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: University YMCA

The Chapel of the Cross builds a new rectory and parish house

Under its rector, the Rev. Homer Worthington Starr, the Chapel of the Cross parish added a new rectory and a parish house to its East Franklin Street property.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

The Luther Craig farmhouse is built on Old Hillsborough Road

About 1911 an I-house was built in front of an older rear wing on the farm long known as Luther Craig's. In the 1930s a log house was brought over from a nearby farm to join its early barns.

The Peabody Fund gives $40,000 for an education building

At the 1911 commencement Venable announced a $40,000 gift from the Peabody Fund trustees for a School of Education building. The legislature that year gave $87,000 a year for upkeep and $50,000 a year for four years for improvements.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Peabody Hall

The Turner-Strudwick block is cut into house lots as the J. A. Hogan subdivision

The five-acre lot around the Turner-Strudwick House, bounded by Churton, Orange and Union streets, was divided into smaller lots as the J. A. Hogan subdivision, and houses later filled the land around it.

Subject: Turner-Strudwick House

The county board buys 2.46 acres from Mary E. Jordan for an Efland school

Early in Lockhart's term the board bought 2.46 acres at Efland from Mrs. Mary E. Jordan, paying $246, as the site for the Efland School.

People: Samuel Paul Lockhart

Subject: Efland schools

William J. 'Tank' Hunter runs a jitney between Chapel Hill and Durham

Hunter, who had bought W. W. Pickard's livery stable in 1910, began running a jitney from the Royal Cafe, a new store beside the post office, to Durham. By 1912 J. T. Durham and Swain Pendergraft ran competing services.

UNC plays its first varsity basketball game

UNC defeated Virginia Christian 42–21 in Bynum Gymnasium in its first varsity basketball game.

Subject: Bynum Hall (Bynum Gymnasium)

Bettie Jackson London publishes the design for the campus monument and appeals for the $7,500

Writing from Pittsboro as chairman of the UDC monument committee, Mrs. Henry A. London described the monument designed by the sculptor John Wilson, a soldier above a bronze tablet of the State calling a student from his books, and warned that the chapters had not met their pledges and the unveiling at the semicentennial commencement was in doubt.

Part of Silent Sam · 15 events

Subject: Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument)

The Tar Heel reports the monument's unveiling put off from the 1911 commencement for want of funds

The paper reported that the UDC chapters had been unable to fulfill their pledges toward the $7,500, so the monument could not be unveiled at the June 1911 commencement, the fiftieth anniversary of the war's beginning, and would certainly be unveiled in 1912. It was in fact dedicated in June 1913.

Part of Silent Sam · 15 events

Subject: The Daily Tar Heel · Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument)

Alumni set up a General Assembly and plan an alumni monthly

On May 29, 1911, the alumni adopted a plan for a General Assembly of delegates from local associations, a Council of fifteen, and a magazine to be called the University of North Carolina Alumni Monthly. W. H. Swift went out as field manager to organize local groups.

People: Robert Bingham

Governor Woodrow Wilson gives the commencement address

Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, spoke at the alumni luncheon and gave the 1911 commencement address in Memorial Hall, and the university made him a Doctor of Laws.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Memorial Hall

The university grants diplomas to students who left for the Confederate army

The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement.

People: Edward K. Graham · Julian S. Carr · Walter Clark · Francis D. Winston

Thomas F. Lloyd, founder of Carrboro's first two mills, dies

Thomas F. Lloyd died in May 1911, close to the time his second mill, a one-story brick yarn mill a block south of the Alberta mill, was finished. A Confederate veteran with no schooling, he had built the gin, grist mill and flour mill by the depot before starting the Alberta mill in 1898.

People: Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder)

Adolph Vermont directs and acts in As You Like It for the Summer School's Fourth of July

The Summer School's Fourth of July of 1911 ended with an evening performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It, directed by Vermont, who also played Orlando.

Subject: University Summer School

Samuel Paul Lockhart rejects the school board's re-election of Superintendent T. Wingate Andrews

At its July 1911 meeting the county board of education re-elected T. Wingate Andrews as superintendent of schools. Lockhart, a candidate for the post, said he would not abide by the result because the election was illegal, and by August he was superintendent himself.

Samuel Paul Lockhart becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools

Lockhart, a Bingham and UNC student from the New Hope area, took over the county schools in August 1911 and set to work with the board on new schoolhouses. He served until his cousin R. H. Claytor defeated him in 1917.

People: R. H. Claytor · Samuel Paul Lockhart

The Noxall Bottling Works buys a lot near the Hillsborough depot for its plant

The Noxall Bottling Works, newly chartered under state law with its headquarters at Hillsborough, bought a lot near the Southern Railway station and planned to run its plant there.

The county board agrees to pay half the cost of new schoolhouses built by local districts

At its meeting of October 10, 1911, early in Lockhart's term, the board planned new schoolhouses in several districts, the county paying half the cost and each community raising the other half.

People: Samuel Paul Lockhart

Alphonso McDade sells the McDade House to his daughter and son-in-law

McDade sold J. E. Merritt and his wife Minnie, McDade's daughter, the West Franklin Street house they had been renting for years.

People: Alphonso J. McDade

Alumni begin publishing the Alumni Review

The alumni launched the Alumni Review, issued monthly during the college year, with Dean Edward Kidder Graham as an associate editor; his piece in the first issue memorialized his teacher Thomas Hume.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · Thomas Hume

David K. Blackwood is moved from a family burying ground to New Hope churchyard

In 1912 the remains of David K. Blackwood, who had died in 1859, were taken from the family graveyard and reburied at New Hope Presbyterian Church. His marble headstone records the move.

Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church

Dr. Braxton Bynum Lloyd begins practicing medicine in the Chapel Hill community

A Chapel Hill native with an M.D. from the University of North Carolina (1909) and three years at the Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary, Lloyd began a medical practice in the community that lasted until his death in 1947.

Dr. C. M. Hughes builds a Colonial Revival house in Cedar Grove

Dr. C. M. Hughes's large two-story frame house in Cedar Grove, with a high hip roof, a cutaway bay and a columned wraparound porch, was built in 1912.

Durham Hosiery Mills nearly doubles Mill No. 4

In 1912 the company added a two-story extension to the west end of the old Alberta mill, enlarged the one-story south wing as an office with a hooded entrance, and put up a new power house northeast of the reservoir. Orders for cotton hosiery had outgrown the building.

Subject: Carr Mill

Graham joins the student county clubs into a civic association

Dean Graham revived the clubs of students from the same county, which nearly half the student body joined after Rand's death, and federated more than a dozen of them as the North Carolina Civic Association of the University, urging members to study conditions at home.

Harriet Cole's house is moved to clear a site for a public school

Mrs. Harriet Cole's house was moved several hundred feet east along West Franklin Street to make room for a planned public school.

Hillsborough merchant "Dr." Durham has a Craftsman bungalow built on West Tryon Street

About 1912 a downtown general merchant named Durham, known in town as "Dr. Durham" though he was not a physician, had a large one-and-a-half-story bungalow built for himself at 110 West Tryon Street. Its wraparound porch has ogee-arched spans between the columns.

Ira Rogers builds a hip-roofed farmhouse northwest of Hillsborough

Tobacco farmer Ira Rogers built himself a plain, square, hip-roofed farmhouse northwest of Hillsborough in 1912, with tapered porch posts and grouped windows.

John L. Efland starts a hosiery mill at Efland

Efland's first hosiery plant, opened by John L. Efland in 1912, first made half hose and later full-fashioned stockings. Relatives' later mills grew from it.

Richard H. Battle gives his law books to the university

Shortly before his death, Richard H. Battle gave the University Law Library all his law books, about 500 volumes including full sets of the United States and North Carolina Reports.

Students form the Greater Council and open honor code hearings to the public

Working with Dean Graham after Rand's death, students set up the Greater Council, with members from every class, to give them more voice on campus questions, and the Student Council began trying honor code charges in public with the accused facing their accusers.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Summer School students perform the colonial play Esther Wake

In the summer of 1912 the Summer School for Teachers presented Esther Wake, a play by instructor Adolf Vermont about colonial North Carolina, on the steps of Smith Hall.

People: Adolph Vermont

Subject: University Summer School · Smith Hall (Playmakers Theatre)

The Bellevue mill runs 5,000 spindles and 200 looms making dress ginghams

Three years after it opened, the Bellevue mill had 5,000 spindles and 200 narrow looms weaving dress ginghams 27 and 32 inches wide, sold through agents in New York and New Jersey.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

The Villines log house is built north of Hillsborough

A one-room V-notched log house with a center door and a small loft window was built in 1912 on what is now SR 1546, north of Hillsborough in the Caldwell section of the county; the year is carved into its rock chimney. It shows log building for tenants and laborers lasting into the twentieth century.

The two-story brick building later the Smith Furniture Store is built at 126 West King Street

A two-story brick commercial building with mousetooth corbelling at the parapet was built at 126 West King Street around 1912. The document calls it the Smith Furniture Store.

The university names a new McCorkle Place residence hall for Kemp Plummer Battle

In 1912 the university named a new residence hall on McCorkle Place for Battle, its president from 1876 to 1891. It was one section of a three-part dormitory whose other sections honored J. Johnston Pettigrew and Zebulon B. Vance.

The university razes the old Central Hotel to build dormitories

The university bought the old Central Hotel from Dr. Roberson's estate, tore it down in 1912, and built the Vance, Battle and Pettigrew dormitories on the site.

People: Abner Benton Roberson

Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)

Union Baptist Church becomes Venable Baptist Church

Once the Methodists stopped meeting there around 1910, the chapel was known as Union Baptist Church. In 1912 the congregation took the name of the newly incorporated town of Venable.

Subject: Carrboro Baptist Church (Century Center)

Wade's Temple is organized at Efland

Wade's Temple, a United Holy Church congregation at Efland, was organized in 1912 with George Wade as first pastor and built its church in 1915.

Work begins on an education building on Cameron Avenue

In 1911-12 the university began a building for the Department of Education on Cameron Avenue next to Commons Hall, paid for with the Peabody Fund gift.

Subject: Peabody Hall

Orange County voters approve $250,000 in road bonds

Under a 1911 local act, the county voted 919 to 831 to borrow for grading and macadamizing its roads, with a nine-member good roads commission to pick them. The bonds, sold about a year later at 5 percent for 40 years, were the county's first and left a debt not cleared until 1953.

Sophomores besiege a freshman cottage and fire a pistol into a room

After a class banquet a crowd of sophomores surrounded a university-owned cottage where freshmen lived, threw rocks at one room and fired a shot into it when the freshmen would not come out. Neither a faculty committee nor the Student Council could name the culprits until the inquiry into Isaac William Rand's death that fall.

The medical building, Caldwell Hall, is dedicated

On May 8, 1912, the university opened its new medical building and named it Caldwell Hall for its first president. Dr. Richard H. Lewis presented it for the trustees, and Venable and Dean Isaac H. Manning accepted it.

People: Francis Preston Venable · Isaac Hall Manning · Richard H. Lewis

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

The Orange Trust Company is organized at Hillsborough

A Hillsborough real estate and insurance firm, the Hillsboro Real Estate and Improvement Company, took the new name Orange Trust Company, with H. W. Webb as president. It planned to buy and sell land, lend money and sell insurance, with $11,000 in paid-in stock.

Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel

For $25 the Mebanes sold a 30-by-40-foot lot at the corner of Union Street, opposite the later Central High School, to trustees Elisha Williams and Arthur Hood. The chapel was named in their memory.

Freshman Isaac William Rand dies in a hazing incident on the athletic field

Taken from his Old East room near midnight by sophomores, the Smithfield freshman was made to stand on a barrel behind Bynum Gymnasium, fell onto broken glass that cut his carotid artery, and died within minutes on the gymnasium steps. Four students were arrested for manslaughter that day after a coroner's inquest, and Governor W. W. Kitchin demanded a full public investigation.

People: William W. (William Walton) Kitchin · Francis Preston Venable

Venable's faculty committee reports on the Rand death and the spring hazing

After questioning nearly fifty students, the committee gave the trustees a full account of the night Rand died and of the March attack on the freshman cottage. Sixteen more students were punished, four dismissed and twelve suspended for a year, and the trustees' executive committee in Raleigh turned down fathers' appeals.

Orange County begins agricultural extension work

The commissioners put up $300 to match a state appropriation for extension work with farmers. The county dropped its share in December 1915 and revived the work during the war.

Kappa Sigma breaks ground for a new fraternity hall on Fraternity Row

The Tar Heel reported in mid-October 1912 that ground had been broken for a new Kappa Sigma hall between the Zeta Psi and Pi Kappa Alpha houses. The building, later called the Evergreen House, is the only one of the original Fraternity Row houses still standing.

A Chapel Hill conference turns football coaching and finances over to an alumni committee

Three weeks after a 66-0 Thanksgiving loss to Virginia, students, alumni and faculty agreed that alumni would clear the Athletic Association's debts and hire professional coaches under a new alumni-run General Athletic Committee, while the faculty kept control of eligibility. Weeks later the committee gave Thomas Trenchard a three-year contract.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

A Colonial Revival house is built for businessman Junius Webb on Pittsboro Street

The two-story house at 302 Pittsboro Street, with a deep hip roof, hipped dormer and wraparound classical porch, was built for Junius Webb about 1913.

A YMCA lecture series on Black life in the South is held for students

Frank Graham and the campus YMCA organized lectures on 'Negro life in the South.' Professor Harry W. Chase told students that Black citizens were a third of the population but received a sixteenth of school spending, and that what they did not pay in property taxes they made up in fines. A second series was held five years later.

People: Frank Porter Graham · Harry Woodburn Chase

Subject: University YMCA

A new wood-frame railroad station is built in Carrboro

The depot that still stands east of the old Alberta mill (Carr Mill) was built about 1913 as an extension of a small frame depot of about 1900, which had itself replaced the boxcar that served as West End's first station. The older depot was later removed, and the 1913 building served as the passenger and freight depot.

Subject: Carr Mill

Bank cashier C. B. Griffin builds a house on McCauley Street

C. B. Griffin, a bank cashier, built the two-story frame I-house at 214 McCauley Street in or about 1913. It has a two-story rear ell and a full-width front porch.

Barbara Bynum Henderson of Chapel Hill becomes president of the Equal Suffrage League of North Carolina

Barbara Bynum Henderson, wife of UNC professor Archibald Henderson, organized the Equal Suffrage League of North Carolina and was elected its president, bringing the woman suffrage campaign to Chapel Hill. She was reelected unanimously in 1915.

People: Archibald Henderson

Carl Durham begins work at Eubanks Drug Store in Chapel Hill

Carl Durham, born in 1892 in the White Cross community of Orange County, went to work at Eubanks Drugstore in Chapel Hill in the summer of 1913. He qualified as a pharmacy apprentice by 1916, studied pharmacy at UNC, served in the Navy Hospital Corps in 1918 and came back to Eubanks as a pharmacist.

Carr Methodist Church is organized

Carr Methodist Church was organized in 1913 and built a church in 1915.

Edward Kidder Graham serves as acting president while Venable is in Europe

Graham, head of the English department and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Chapel Hill, acted as president in 1913 during President Francis P. Venable's absence in Europe.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Edwin Greenlaw joins the UNC faculty

Greenlaw, a Renaissance scholar, came to the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1913 at the age of 39.

Mebane Chapel is organized in Hillsborough

Mebane Chapel, a United Holy Church congregation in Hillsborough, was organized in 1913 and built a 250-seat church the next year.

Moorefields is advertised for public sale and leaves the Moore family

After more than a century with Alfred Moore's descendants, Moorefields was advertised for public sale, and its later owners were not Moore relatives until 1949.

Subject: Moorefields

R. B. Mason's land west of the Bellevue mill is platted as the West Hill Property

To meet the need for workers' housing near the two mills, Mason's holdings were laid out in 1913 as a grid of roughly equal lots, bounded by the Bellevue mill village, Eno Street and the railroad, West Hill Street, and Mount Willing Road (later King Street). Most houses there went up from the 1920s to the 1940s, and the section beyond West Hill Avenue was platted in the 1930s.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

Smallpox breaks out on the campus

In the last weeks of the 1912-13 term President Venable had to deal with an outbreak of smallpox at the university, one of the worries of the year that led him to seek leave.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Strowd's Garage opens in Chapel Hill as the first garage in Orange County

A plate caption identifies Strowd's Garage in Chapel Hill, pictured about 1913, as the county's first garage.

People: Bruce Strowd

Swain Hall is built as the university dining hall

The university built Swain Hall in 1913 and 1914 as a dining hall on the site of the first president's house and named it for David L. Swain. It served as the dining hall until 1940 and later became the first home of the communications department.

Subject: Swain Hall

The Braxton Craig House on McCauley Street is sold to E. G. Norwood

In 1913 the builders of the house at 224 McCauley Street sold it to E. G. Norwood.

The Cedar Grove pharmacy where Dr. C. M. Hughes practiced is moved beside his house

The early 1900s pharmacy building at the Cedar Grove crossroads, where Dr. Claude M. Hughes kept his medical practice, was moved in 1913 to the lot east of his new house so a three-story flour mill could go up on its site. The mill burned about 1931.

The Chapel Hill Community Club runs an improvement contest in a Black neighborhood

Susan Moses Graham and the Community Club, with YMCA students under Frank Porter Graham, organized a project in an African American neighborhood at the edge of town, giving prizes for the cleanest house, the cleanest yard and the best fence.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: University YMCA

The General Assembly makes hazing a crime

After the outcry over Rand's death the 1913 legislature outlawed hazing; the same session gave the university enough to keep growing and money for a new dining hall.

The School of Education is established with M. C. S. Noble as dean

The university formally established its School of Education as a professional school in 1913, with M. C. S. Noble as dean. He held the post until 1921 and kept teaching until he retired in 1934.

The first president's house is moved off the Swain Hall site and becomes a private home

When Swain Hall was built in 1913 at Cameron Avenue and South Columbia Street, the 1795 house built for the university's president was moved from the corner and reused as a private dwelling.

Subject: Swain Hall

The new School of Education building is dedicated

Before the 1913 commencement Venable presided at the dedication of the building for the university's new School of Education, later called the Peabody Building.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Peabody Hall

The university calls off its football game with A&M over eligibility

Disputes over A&M players who had played for Brown, Holy Cross and Georgetown and over paid assistant coaches on the field led Carolina to cancel the game, a step Graham accepted with reluctance.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

The university organizes a Bureau of Extension under Louis Round Wilson

Set up as Venable left for Europe in mid-1913 and run by university librarian Louis Round Wilson with no budget of its own, the bureau started programs to take the university's work into the state; the trustees endorsed it in January 1914.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

The Lloyd yarn mill becomes Durham Hosiery Mill No. 7

The Thomas F. Lloyd Manufacturing Company mill was sold to Durham Hosiery Mills, which ran it as Mill No. 7 alongside Mill No. 4, the former Alberta mill.

People: Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder) · Julian S. Carr

The Blanche Hosiery Mill Company is chartered again with $100,000 in authorized capital

Four years after Julian Carr's company bought the first Blanche mill, W. E. Lindsay, Blanche Gilbert Lindsay and W. S. Robertson took out a new charter for the Blanche Hosiery Mill Company. By late April its new plant was finished, with 58 knitting machines and work for about 40 hands.

Three students are convicted in Hillsborough in Isaac William Rand's death

At the Orange County Courthouse one of the four defendants was freed after the first testimony, and a jury of Orange County farmers found the other three guilty within a few hours. The judge gave the minimum four months with the option of hiring them out, and their families paid the fees and took them home the same day.

People: John W. Graham · Isaac William Rand

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

The Efland Hosiery Mills is incorporated at Efland

The Efland Hosiery Mills received a state certificate of incorporation with its principal office at Efland and an authorized capital of $50,000. By July the mill was reported nearly finished.

Vice President Thomas R. Marshall gives the commencement address

Newly inaugurated with Woodrow Wilson, Marshall was the 1913 commencement speaker and stayed at the President's House because there was no decent hotel within fifteen miles of the campus.

The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association is organized in the back of the West End Drug Store

Six incorporators put up $5,500 to start the Hillsboro Building and Loan Association, with Charles H. Robertson as president and druggist C. M. Andrews as secretary-treasurer. Andrews took members' payments at his drug counter until 1926.

People: Charles H. Robertson

Subject: Hillsboro Building and Loan (Savings and Loan)

Acting president Graham pledges to carry the university to the whole state

In his University Day remarks in Memorial Hall, Graham said the new Bureau of Extension would put the university in close touch with every problem of North Carolina life, a break with Venable's narrower view, and he answered charges that students cared mostly for football. Raleigh and Greensboro papers praised the idea the next day.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Eugene C. Branson shows students how to survey their home counties

During a five-day stay as Graham's guest at Bulrushes, the Georgia rural sociologist led classes and seminars and coached the Johnston County club on gathering facts about illiteracy, tenancy, crops and the tax burden, a report meant to serve as the model for the other county clubs.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Orange County begins registering births and deaths

The county's birth and death records are complete from October 1913, when registration began. By the 1950s the district health officer served as registrar and sent copies to the register of deeds and the state Bureau of Vital Statistics.

John Laws dies after more than sixty years as register of deeds

Laws served as register of deeds and clerk to the county board from at least October 1849, apart from 1853 to 1855, until his death at 92.

Graham proposes a statewide civic service week in a Charlotte speech

Closing Farm Life Week in Charlotte, the acting president called for a day of community self-study across North Carolina a year later, and Farmers Union president Henry Q. Alexander drafted a resolution asking the governor to back it. The book treats the speech as the moment the university openly took up the cause of farmers and wage earners.

The Corporation Commission orders three railroad underpasses for the Durham-Greensboro highway in Orange County

Ruling on a petition from the Orange County Good Roads Commission against the Southern Railway, the Corporation Commission ordered the county to lower the Durham-Greensboro highway at three railroad crossings and the two sides to build 26-foot underpasses there. The county was to pay half to two thirds of each, and the railroad the rest, including the widening of an existing underpass.

Subject: North Carolina Railroad

A two-story brick movie theater is built at 122 West King Street

A brick movie theater with a cable-hung marquee across its front and an upstairs projection booth was built at 122 West King Street around 1914. It is on the 1924 Sanborn map.

A. J. Blackwood recruits Cora Oakley's family from Burlington to the Carrboro mills

In 1914 A. J. Blackwood, a Burlington neighbor lately made superintendent of Mill No. 4, drew Cora Oakley and her large family to Carrboro with slightly higher wages and a ten-hour day. Durham Hosiery Mills hired many experienced hands away from Burlington-area mills in this way.

Subject: Carr Mill

About 250 county citizens meet at the Hillsboro courthouse for Community Service Week

As part of the university's Community Service Week, some 250 citizens gathered at the Orange County courthouse in Hillsboro to take up the county's needs and hear President Graham speak on community service.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

An I-house front is added to the Lloyd family's log house on Dairyland Road

About 1914 a two-story frame front was built onto an older log section on the Lloyd place. Lemuel and Ola Cheek owned it for most of the century and ran it as a dairy farm.

Andrew Henry Patterson builds a house on East Franklin Street

Patterson was one of several faculty members and townspeople who built new homes in the East Franklin Street residential district in these years.

Carrboro Methodists build their first church

Organized in 1910 as a mission of the Chapel Hill Methodists, the congregation met in the public school until early 1914, when it built a plain frame church on the large lot east of the school, later the Britt Building site. From about 1900 the town's Methodists had shared Union Chapel with the Baptists.

Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own on Franklin Street

Clyde Eubanks put up a new building on his own lot, about a hundred yards west of the Tankersley-owned store he had rented, and moved Eubanks Drug Store into it. Robert Foister's camera shop took the old space.

People: Clyde Eubanks

Cora Zeta Corpening enrolls as the university's first woman candidate for a medical degree

When the 1914-15 session opened, Cora Zeta Corpening of Mars Hill became the first woman to enroll at the university as a candidate for a medical degree.

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Edward Kidder Graham is elected president of the university

The board of trustees elected Graham president by unanimous vote in 1914, succeeding Francis P. Venable. He had been at Chapel Hill since 1899, first as librarian and then through the English department to the deanship.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Fire damages the Alumni Building

A fire probably started by Joshua Gore's X-ray machine in the basement did about $1,800 in damage to the Alumni Building.

Subject: Alumni Building

Historian J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton commissions a house on North Street from N. C. Curtis

In 1914 J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, head of the UNC history department and later founder of the Southern Historical Collection, had N. C. Curtis design a one-story house with a pyramid roof at 517 North Street. Two rooms were added in 1924.

People: Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis

Isaac Emerson gives $25,000 for a new athletic field and stadium

Isaac Emerson of Baltimore, an 1879 graduate who made his fortune with Bromo-Seltzer, gave $25,000 for an athletic field and stadium. The field was under construction when students returned in September 1914 and was named Emerson Field for him.

Subject: Emerson Field

James Finch Royster leaves the university for the University of Texas

Royster, who had been teaching the journalism course Edward Kidder Graham created, left Chapel Hill for the University of Texas, one of the faculty Graham could not keep during his year as acting president.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Marvin H. Stacy becomes permanent dean of the College of Liberal Arts

Graham had made Marvin Hendrix Stacy acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts during Venable's absence and made the post permanent at his first faculty meeting as president. Stacy, a civil engineering professor, handled student discipline and worked to replace written rules with reliance on student honor.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Mebane Chapel builds its church in Hillsborough under its first pastor, B. F. Alston

A year after the United Holy Church congregation organized, it put up its chapel, seating about 200, with thirty-five members and Rev. B. F. Alston as first pastor.

S. Berman opens a department store at Franklin and Columbia streets

Newly arrived in Chapel Hill, S. Berman started a department store on the southeast corner of Franklin and Columbia, where J. T. Durham had kept a general store. Berman's stayed on East Franklin for decades.

Six students and the track trainer are arrested in a Chapel Hill craps game

The authorities found the floating game when a loser wrote a bad check; a few townspeople were arrested too, the faculty suspended the students, and the trainer resigned.

State Forester John S. Holmes builds a shingled house on Glenburnie Street

John Holmes's wood-shingled house at 204 Glenburnie Street, with bargeboards and diamond-pane sash, is the only example in Chapel Hill of the Shingle Style that McKim, Mead and White developed for Newport summer cottages.

Students improve Franklin Street and Battle Park during Community Service Week

During Graham's first statewide Community Service Week, about a hundred students worked on Chapel Hill: one crew graded Franklin Street under Joseph Hyde Pratt with teams paid for by merchants and bankers, others cleared the grounds around Swain Hall, cleaned the Battle Park trails under the Rev. W. D. Moss and gathered trash from the alleys.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · Joseph Hyde Pratt · William Dygnum Moss

Subject: Battle Park

The 1914 Yackety Yack is dedicated to chemistry professor Charles H. Herty

The editors of the university yearbook dedicated the 1914 Yackety Yack to Herty because he stood for service to his region. Colleagues recalled that he urged students to use chemistry to do something for the state or the country.

The Bank of Chapel Hill moves into a new building on Franklin Street

Short of room, the Bank of Chapel Hill moved into a new building just west of Clyde Eubanks's new drugstore, and a barbershop took over the space it left.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

The Bureau of Extension begins correspondence courses for credit

Under Louis R. Wilson, the university's new Bureau of Extension began organizing correspondence courses for credit during the 1914-15 term. It had already widened its free advice for teachers to help town officials with water systems and streets.

People: Louis Round Wilson

The Ruffin-Hill tract on St. Mary's Road is sold to A. S. Mitchell, who divides it

In 1914 the 47 1/2-acre Ruffin-Hill tract, long the home of Mary Ruffin Hill and her husband Thomas Hill, was conveyed to A. S. Mitchell, who subdivided the land.

Subject: Ruffin-Hill House

Venable Baptist Church becomes Carrboro Baptist Church

In 1914, the year after the town was renamed for Julian S. Carr, the Baptist congregation changed its name again, to Carrboro Baptist Church.

Subject: Carrboro Baptist Church (Century Center)

White Oak Grove Baptist Church is organized

Charles Wells and William Thompson were leaders of White Oak Grove Baptist Church, a Black congregation organized about 1914.

Trustees approve asking the Rockefeller Foundation for a student building

After a sharp debate the board agreed to seek $50,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, to be matched by $25,000 raised at home, for a student center to replace the crowded YMCA quarters. The plan fell through when word reached the foundation that some trustees objected to tainted money.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Trustees create a chair of applied economics and rural sociology for Eugene C. Branson

Graham won approval to hire Branson at the top faculty salary of $2,500 and promised him a large office in the Peabody Building; Branson said he would come that fall and proposed starting a study of Orange County right away.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Trustees put athletic rules in the faculty's hands

At their winter meeting the trustees adopted Graham's view that the faculty alone should make and enforce athletic rules, turning aside coach Trenchard's lobbying for the board to overrule faculty eligibility decisions.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

The first Good Roads Institute meets at Chapel Hill

State geologist and faculty member Joseph Hyde Pratt chaired the first Good Roads Institute held at Chapel Hill. The institute later became part of the university's extension program.

People: Joseph Hyde Pratt

Francis P. Venable resigns the presidency from London

Writing to the trustees from London, Venable resigned on his doctor's warning against another breakdown and asked to return to teaching chemistry. His letter reached board secretary Richard H. Lewis about the same time Graham got a personal note, which Graham called a great shock.

People: Richard H. Lewis

Edwin Greenlaw heads UNC's English department

Appointed chairman of the English department in June 1914, Greenlaw built it from eight faculty members to 37 by 1925, when he left for Johns Hopkins.

E. C. Branson takes up rural economics and sociology and starts the North Carolina Club

Eugene Cunningham Branson arrived in Chapel Hill in September 1914 as Graham's new professor of rural economics and sociology. He at once gathered the students' county clubs into the North Carolina Club to study conditions back home.

The university assigns each freshman a faculty adviser

President Graham began a system of faculty advisers to help new students settle into university life, and fall 1914 was its first year. Albert Coates's adviser was Oliver Towles of romance languages.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Branson's University News Letter publishes its first issue

E. C. Branson's University News Letter, a weekly one-page sheet packed with facts about North Carolina gathered by him and his students, first appeared in mid-November 1914 with a run of four thousand copies. Its items were widely reprinted by the state's papers, and circulation grew to fifteen thousand.

People: John Sprunt Hill

Graham reports enrollment passing 1,000 students

Graham told the trustees in December 1914 that enrollment would pass 1,000, against 512 in 1900, and that counting summer students the university taught 1,578. The campus had grown from ten buildings in 1900 to two dozen.

Carr Methodist Church builds its Gothic Revival frame church

Two years after organizing, the Carr Methodist congregation builds a modest frame church with Gothic Revival touches on NC 49 at Carr.

Claude and Ola Neville build a foursquare farmhouse on their dairy farm

Claude Neville, a farmer who also kept a grocery in Carrboro, and his wife Ola built a two-story frame foursquare on Old Greensboro Road. A pegged frame kitchen from an earlier house on the land still stands behind it.

Collier Cobb develops Cobb Terrace, Chapel Hill's earliest planned development

On uneven land at the north end of Henderson Street, geology professor Collier Cobb brought in earth to partly level the site, designed a terraced development and built eleven houses, several of them Aladdin kit houses, as affordable rental housing for young professors. The houses went up between 1915 and 1927 and stayed rentals until Cobb's death in 1934.

Contractor Charles Craige builds a gambrel-roofed bungalow for mason William Strayhorn

The house at 107 Jones Ferry Road was built for William and Margie Strayhorn beside the home of his father Toney, head of a family of brick masons. William died young in 1933; his daughter Laura and her husband Albert Reaves kept the house in 1983.

People: William Strayhorn

Subject: Toney and Nellie Strayhorn House and William Strayhorn House

Durham Hosiery Mills builds a house on West Main Street for its Carrboro superintendent

Some time between 1915 and 1925 the company built a one-and-a-half-story house with a tall hipped roof and Tuscan porch columns at 103 West Main Street for the head of its Carrboro mills; it was long thought the best house in town. Ralph Ward of Mill No. 4 lived there first and Floyd M. Durham of Mill No. 7 later, and Marvin J. Dawson bought it at the 1939 company sale.

Durham Hosiery Mills builds its last group of mill houses on South Greensboro Street

Around 1915 carpenter John Squires built five houses on South Greensboro Street south of Carr Street, thought to be Durham Hosiery Mills' last housing project in Carrboro. The company then planted Lombardy poplars along the street, which was called Poplar Street until the diseased trees came down in the 1930s.

Edwin Greenlaw becomes managing editor of Studies in Philology

Greenlaw took over the university's journal Studies in Philology in 1915 and reorganized it as a quarterly.

Engineering professor T. Felix Hickerson builds a house on Battle Lane

T. Felix Hickerson, later author of a standard road-design textbook and the engineer who laid out Gimghoul and Laurel Hill, built a two-story weatherboarded house at 108 Battle Lane that pairs a classical entrance porch with a bay window and a sleeping porch.

People: Thomas Felix Hickerson

Eno Cotton Mill rents its village houses to workers for 25 cents a week

The Eno Cotton Mill, founded in 1896 by Allen J. Ruffin and James H. Webb Jr., built a company village for its fast-growing workforce, and by 1915 the company was renting the houses to employees for a quarter a week. The 1924 Sanborn map shows about 100 mill houses west and south of the mill.

People: Allen Jones Ruffin

Subject: Eno Mill

Flat Rock AME Church is organized

Flat Rock, an African Methodist Episcopal congregation, was organized about 1915 and built a 300-seat church in 1952.

Subject: Flat Rock AME Church

Flat Rock church builds its frame church at St. Mary's and New Sharon Church roads

Soon after the congregation formed in 1915, members of Flat Rock church built a one-story frame church in a plain Gothic style at the corner of St. Mary's and New Sharon Church roads, the center of one of two Black settlements that grew up along the road after emancipation.

Subject: Flat Rock AME Church

George Trice, who ran an oyster restaurant and shoe shop on Franklin Street, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

George Trice (1838-1915), an African American businessman who kept an oyster restaurant and a shoe repair shop on Franklin Street, was buried in the cemetery's Black section.

People: George Trice

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Graham launches an Alumni Loyalty Fund

After the class of 1905 gave $1,000, Graham asked the trustees to back an alumni loyalty fund and turned the gift into a nationwide appeal for small yearly gifts from the university's roughly six thousand living alumni. It was a new idea to seek private money for a state institution, and the hoped-for sums never came.

Hoot Patterson rents his Franklin Street store to Frank and Clarence Pickard

Patterson had groomed his son Fred to take over the business, and after Fred died in 1914 he lost interest and in 1915 rented the store to Frank Pickard and his son Clarence. Patterson's store account books end the same year.

Margaret Berry becomes the first woman to graduate from UNC's law school

Margaret Berry of the Hillsborough Berry family, who had finished her UNC undergraduate degree in 1913, graduated from the university's law school in 1915, the first woman to do so. That summer she passed the state bar examination, listed as Margaret Kollock Berry of Orange.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Mill worker Jesse Riggsbee builds his own house on South Greensboro Street

Riggsbee and his wife both worked for Durham Hosiery Mills but chose to build rather than rent from the mill or a speculator, and two relatives later built on adjoining West Carr Street lots. A humidifier mechanic, he lived there until his death in 1946.

Some 250 high school debaters come to Chapel Hill for state finals

About 250 high school students came to the campus for the final rounds of the university's statewide debating union, one of Graham's means of tying the university to towns across the state. Topics included woman suffrage and public ownership of railroads.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · Albert Coates

Southern Power Company builds a steam plant on the Eno near University Station

Duke's Southern Power Company built a coal-fired steam generating plant beside the Eno near University Station, a backup for its hydroelectric stations, with Fiske-Carter Construction Company holding the contract in 1915. By July 1916 the Eno steam plant was sending current as far as Charlotte while flooding shut down the company's river stations. Its power went to Durham's factories, not to Orange County.

Subject: University Station

St. Paul's A.M.E. Church widens its sanctuary by one bay

A growing congregation led to the widening of the 1892 frame church. Brick veneer went on in the 1950s, but the belfry and steeple kept their original look.

Subject: St. Paul AME Church

Student engineers wire the first campus telephone network

The electrical engineering laboratory rebuilt used telephones salvaged from a Durham textile mill to link the Alumni Building offices of the president, business manager, treasurer and registrar. Student engineers also put a radio antenna on New East to receive baseball scores.

Subject: Alumni Building

The 1880 brick building on the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia is torn down

Judged unsafe, the brick building put up in 1880 at the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia streets was razed. The Baptists later built their church on this corner.

The 1915 General Assembly raises the university's appropriation

Graham's first legislative campaign won $115,000 a year for operations, against $95,000 before and the $125,000 he sought, plus $60,000 over two years for permanent improvements. Much of the building money went to pay for the University Inn property on Franklin Street and the land under Peabody Hall.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · R. D. W. Connor

The Order of Gimghouls buys a 95-acre tract east of campus

The land took in the Prospect Point overlook prized by 1880s member Edward Wray Martin, who had dreamed of a stone castle there. The order traded about a third of it to the university, sold 35 acres, kept a wooded site for the castle and developed the rest as the Glandon subdivision, now the Gimghoul neighborhood.

Subject: Gimghoul Castle and neighborhood

The University Gymnasium Association votes to give Old Commons Hall to the university

Stockholders of the association that had owned the old ballroom, gymnasium and dining hall since 1885 voted at a meeting in Dr. R. H. Lewis's office to deed the building to the university. It was then used for class basketball games and, in 1917, for military drill.

People: Kemp Plummer Battle · Francis Preston Venable

The old Cedar Grove one-teacher schoolhouse is moved to serve Black children

When Cedar Grove's white pupils moved to the new high school, the one-teacher schoolhouse was hauled to Baxter Thompson's land and used as a school for Black children.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

The old Episcopal rectory is said to be cut into sections and moved to North Street

Local tradition holds that around 1915 the Episcopal rectory, a two-room house of about 1850 later enlarged into an H shape, was sawn into pieces and moved to North Street, where the parts became the small houses at 408, 410 and 412.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

UNC gives James Sprunt an honorary doctor of laws

The university, where Sprunt served as a trustee, awarded him an honorary LL.D.

William Howard Taft gives the first Weil lectures on American citizenship

Former president William Howard Taft spent three days in Chapel Hill as Graham's guest, giving a series of lectures on politics and the presidency. A photograph caption identifies the visit as the inaugural Weil Lecture on American citizenship.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

A. W. Clarke becomes Orange County's superintendent of roads

A 1915 act ended township road administration in Orange and put every county road under a superintendent. Clarke accepted $65 a month from March through November and $3 a day for winter work.

Edward Kidder Graham is inaugurated president in Memorial Hall

A procession of about 1,400 marched to Memorial Hall, where Chief Justice Walter Clark gave Graham the oath and Governor Locke Craig presided. Graham's address cast the state university as the instrument of democracy. Three former presidents walked with him in the procession.

People: Edwin Anderson Alderman · Francis Preston Venable · Kemp Plummer Battle · Locke Craig · Walter Clark

Subject: Memorial Hall

The county board buys the Annie Hughes Academy to house a Cedar Grove high school

Answering a petition from Cedar Grove residents, the board offered on May 3, 1915 to buy the old Cedar Grove Academy from Annie Hughes and on May 15 paid her $1,500 for it, deeding her the lot of the one-teacher school it closed. The new Cedar Grove High School took grades one through eleven.

People: Samuel Paul Lockhart

Subject: Hughes Academy (Cedar Grove Academy) · Cedar Grove schools

A Christian Church congregation is organized near Mebane

The congregation later called Mebane Congregational Christian Church was organized on May 16, 1915, with W. C. Clements, pastor of the Christian church in Chapel Hill, as first pastor. Its building was finished in 1931.

Mary Owen Graham is endorsed as supervisor of Orange County's canning clubs

The commissioners approved Graham, of Charlotte, to lead the county's canning clubs, the start of extension work with farm women. In 1916 they renewed $250 a year for tomato club work.

The county board re-elects Superintendent Lockhart and funds an assistant for him

The Board of Education returned Samuel P. Lockhart to office and set aside $400 to pay Mary O. Graham as his assistant.

People: Samuel Paul Lockhart

The school board names Lula Cassidy rural supervisor and county canning agent

A week after electing Mary O. Graham supervisor, the board chose Lula Cassidy as rural supervisor and canning agent. In 1916 it put her in charge of a county-wide school commencement in Hillsboro.

The county board orders two privies built at every school

Meeting in August 1915, the board bought desks and equipment and voted to put two privies at each county school, paying half the cost and leaving the community to pay the rest.

Emilie Holmes starts Mayfair War Relief work in Chapel Hill

Emilie R. Holmes (Mrs. J. S. Holmes) organized Chapel Hill war relief work for the Mayfair War Relief of New York in October 1915 and directed it until September 1917. About a dozen workers sent 13 boxes holding 1,183 surgical dressings, 300 rolled bandages, 160 pads and 36 hospital shirts.

Superintendent Lockhart's first township teachers' meeting meets at the Carrboro school

With rural supervisor Lula Cassidy, Lockhart set up meetings of the teachers in each township, smaller than the county meeting. The first, at the Carrboro school, drew a state education official and University School of Education staff, and the Merritt school came with all its teachers and its whole committee.

Subject: Carrboro Elementary School

A brass plate from the Old East cornerstone is returned on University Day

University Day 1916 brought back a brass plate that had once been part of the Old East cornerstone. A Tennessee foundry owner had found it in a pile of scrap metal, and how it got there was unknown.

Subject: Old East

Adam Kluttz sells his Franklin Street store to the Solomon Brothers, who keep his name on it

After a heart attack, merchant Adam Alexander Kluttz sold his original store to the Solomon Brothers of New York on the condition that it go on carrying his name. B. Y. C. Buice became manager.

People: Adam Alexander Kluttz

Bank cashier Milton E. Hogan buys the Thomas Hume house on West Franklin Street

Milton E. Hogan, cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, bought the West Franklin Street residence of Dr. Thomas Hume. The house later passed to Caesar Cone, a fraternity and the University, and in 1943 held the high school.

People: Thomas Hume

Eno Cotton Mill reports 150 women among its 500 workers

Reports from the years before the wartime changes count about 500 workers at Hillsborough's Eno Cotton Mill, 150 of them women and 50 children under 16, on a 60-hour week. The top average daily wage for women was $1.75 against $4.00 for men; at the smaller Bellevue mill nearby women's top average was $2.50.

Subject: Eno Mill · Bellevue Mill

Hackney's school on Merritt Mill Road is bought for a public training school

Louis Hackney had opened his school for Black students on Merritt Mill Road in 1912. In 1916 the property was bought for a public training school for Black students, after Black residents raised $3,000 toward the purchase.

People: Louis H. Hackney

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

Julian S. Carr endows a scholarship on his class's fiftieth anniversary

At the 1916 commencement, fifty years after his class was due to graduate, Durham industrialist Julian S. Carr gave $4,000 to endow a scholarship fund. Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo gave the address.

Professor W. S. Bernard rents the old Sam Phillips law office from the Kluttz family

Professor William Stanley "Bully" Bernard rented the old Sam Phillips law office on East Franklin Street from the Kluttzes, remodeled the inside and made it his home.

The Bellevue mill is also turning out cheviot cloth

By 1916 the Bellevue mill was weaving cheviot, a rough-finished cloth, alongside its ginghams.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

The Lloyd grist mill burns and is rebuilt in brick

The original wood-frame grist mill and cotton gin building burned in 1916 and was replaced by the brick mill that survives at 101 B Street. Around 1921 lightning struck the brick mill, and the fire burned its interior.

People: Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder)

Subject: Lloyd grist mill (Broad Street)

The Tar Heel Theatre opens on Franklin Street beside Strowd's garage

A new movie house run by Lindsey and Strowd opened in one of the new buildings on Franklin Street, with a balcony and modern fittings. S. J. Brockwell's new Pickwick went up in the same row.

The county road superintendent is equipped to work convicts on the roads

In 1916 the board authorized the road superintendent to buy the equipment he needed to put convicts to work. Prisoners were used on county road projects until the state took over most sentenced prisoners in 1931.

Walter W. Pickard sells the Pickard Hotel to William and Louisa Uzzel

Walter W. Pickard sold his Franklin Street hotel to Major William Uzzel and his wife, Louisa. The maps carry the hotel under Uzzel's ownership until it burned.

Subject: Pickard Hotel

William Jennings Bryan argues against entering the war in Memorial Hall

Former secretary of state William Jennings Bryan, campaigning for peace, spoke in Memorial Hall to students and townspeople, a crowd that spilled into the street, and urged Americans to keep out of Europe's war.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Wilson Odell Lacock opens a shoe store and repair shop on Franklin Street

Lacock, who had clerked at Herndon's hardware, set up his own shoe store and repair shop in a small frame building west of R. A. Eubanks's general store that the express office had used. The family kept a shoe shop on the street into the 1940s.

Thomas J. Campbell arrives as the university's first athletic director

After coach T. G. Trenchard's contract ran out with the 1915 season, Graham and a faculty committee ended alumni control of athletics and put a director in charge. Thomas Joseph Campbell, a former Harvard football star, took the post by early March 1916 and coached under a new rule that made athletes wait a year before playing.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

The Chapel Hill to Durham road is turned over to the federal engineer

The commissioners placed the road under the U.S. government engineer, as the central highway through Hillsborough already was, and set $40 a mile a year for upkeep. On May 1 they did the same for the road from Carrboro to the Alamance line by way of White Cross.

People: Joseph Hyde Pratt

Emerson Field's concrete stadium is ready for the 1916 baseball season

The stadium paid for by Isaac Emerson, with white concrete stands behind Bynum Gymnasium seating up to 3,200, was ready for a baseball game with Virginia set for April 3, 1916. Its plans were the first at the university to allow parking for automobiles.

Subject: Emerson Field

The Orange County school board asks Superintendent Lockhart to resign, and he refuses

The board said Lockhart had failed to adjust to the county's enlarged educational plans and would not cooperate with county supervisor Lula Cassidy. He refused to resign and stayed in office until his term ended in 1917.

State and university educators set up a teacher-training program for Orange County

State superintendent J. Y. Joyner, rural schools chief L. C. Brogden and UNC's L. A. Williams met the county board and won approval for a 1916-17 plan of general teachers' meetings in November and March and group meetings at centers across the county, run by the UNC School of Education. Teachers were paid to attend, with a per diem and mileage for Saturday sessions.

Susan Moses Graham, the president's wife, dies at Chapel Hill

Susan Moses Graham, 34, died on the last day of the fall session after six weeks of infection. Remaining classes were called off, and she was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery on December 23 after a service at the Chapel of the Cross. She had helped found the Chapel Hill Community Club.

People: William Dygnum Moss

Subject: Chapel of the Cross · Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

A Department of Military Science opens with more than half the students enrolled

For 1917-18 the university added a Department of Military Science with three faculty, as large as the Greek department, and more than half the student body took its courses.

Black congregations in Chapel Hill form Red Cross auxiliaries

Among the auxiliaries of the Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter were groups at the Black Methodist church and the Black Baptist church of Chapel Hill, and one at Zion Church. Like the country circles they made hospital and refugee garments and comfort kits for the chapter.

Bud Perry and Moody Lloyd open the Carolina Barbershop

The Carolina Barbershop started in a small frame building beside the new post office. It moved west in 1920 and was still on the street in the late 1930s.

Capt. J. Stuart Allen organizes the volunteer UNC Reserve Corps

Graham brought Captain J. Stuart Allen, a wounded Canadian veteran of Ypres and the Somme, to run military training, paying him $4,000 from the budget. Volunteers bought their own uniforms and earned five credit hours for twelve or more hours a week of drill and trench digging east of the campus.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · J. Stuart Allen

Cedar Grove voters approve a special school tax district

The board allowed Cedar Grove to call an election on a special school tax in July 1917, and the returns reported in September showed 34 votes for and 16 against. The board then set pay for each Cedar Grove high school teacher at $50 a month.

Subject: Cedar Grove schools

Chapel Hill's Rally Day of 1917 becomes a "Win the War Day" with a Red Cross booth

Rally Day in 1917 was given over to the war effort: Red Cross members ran booths on conservation and service, a farm exhibit showed county produce, and cooks displayed war breads and canned goods for prizes judged by the state Department of Agriculture. Women in uniform made surgical dressings in the Red Cross booth and signed up many new members.

Clara S. Lingle becomes the university's first advisor to women

Graham hired Clara S. Lingle as advisor to women, the first woman given administrative duties at the university. Formally on the extension staff working with women's clubs, she was meant to speak for the two dozen women students within the administration.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Claytor's first report counts 42 one-teacher schools in Orange County

Claytor's 1917 report to the state listed 42 one-teacher schools, 19 white and 23 Black, with 2,569 white and 1,259 Black pupils. Nineteen Black schools had only benches and no desks.

People: R. H. Claytor

Cornelia Spencer Love works as a librarian at the University of North Carolina

Love came to Chapel Hill and worked in the university library from 1917 to 1948. She later wrote When Chapel Hill Was a Village, published in 1976.

Subject: UNC Libraries

Dr. C. S. Mangum teaches a daily first aid class at the 1917 UNC Summer School

Dr. C. S. Mangum taught first aid every day through the six weeks of the 1917 Summer School to a large class of Chapel Hill people and summer visitors, with two local Red Cross members helping with bandaging. The course closed with practical and written examinations sent from Washington.

Subject: University Summer School

Hillsborough children aged six to sixteen learn to knit for soldiers in a Red Cross class

Henrietta P. Collins and Mrs. J. Cheshire Webb taught girls and boys from six to sixteen to knit wash cloths for soldiers, using knitting cotton that Daniel Miller and Co. of Baltimore donated through Lillie Bivins. The room was full at every meeting, and the better knitters moved on to wool; by October about fifty children were knitting for the chapter.

People: Henrietta P. Collins