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1. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

2. 1951-1969
   Appointment, election or service · Orange County The county board elects G. Paul Carr superintendent of the Orange County schools

   Gabriel Paul Carr, principal of Angier High School, became the county's tenth school superintendent in 1951, succeeding Glenn T. Proffit, who left for the Harnett County superintendency. Carr served eighteen years, through the consolidation of schools and the desegregation of the system, and resigned effective June 30, 1969.

3. 1952
   Construction or physical change · Hillsborough The county builds the classroom building and cafeteria later used by A. L. Stanback School

   A classroom building and a cafeteria on the Hillsborough campus that became A. L. Stanback School, the grades 6-7 school by 1983, date from 1952 under Superintendent G. Paul Carr.

4. 1959
   Construction or physical change · Hillsborough Cameron Park School in Hillsborough gets its first addition

   Three years after it opened, the county enlarged Cameron Park School with a second section of building, raised under Superintendent G. Paul Carr to plans by the architect Archie Royal Davis.

5. 1968
   Construction or physical change · Hillsborough Stanford Junior High School is built near Hillsborough with two classroom buildings and a gymnasium

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

6. 1969-1977
   Appointment, election or service · Orange County George F. Williams becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools

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

7. 1969-70
   Law, policy or court · Hillsborough Orange County Schools regroup pupils by grade across the Hillsborough schools to complete integration

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

8. 1969
   Publication, speech or performance · Orange County Superintendent Carr's final report recommends studying a merger of the county and Chapel Hill school units

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

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