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1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

2. January 1917
   Law, policy or court · UNC, Chapel Hill The faculty approves summer banking jobs for credit with National City Bank

   The faculty approved a plan Graham arranged with New York's National City Bank to hire rising juniors for summer jobs that taught banking, with university credit for the work. Graham meant it as a first step toward a school of commerce and began recruiting Dudley DeWitt Carroll at about the same time.

3. 1919–1950
   Chapel Hill Dudley D. Carroll leads UNC's School of Commerce

   Carroll came to UNC as professor of economics in 1918 and became dean of the School of Commerce, which he helped plan, holding the post for thirty-one years.

4. 1924
   Construction or physical change · 105 Ridge Lane, Gimghoul, Chapel Hill Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll and Eleanor Carroll build a house on Ridge Lane in Gimghoul

   Dudley DeWitt Carroll, dean of UNC's commerce school, and his wife Eleanor Elliott Carroll had a Chatham County contractor named Barber build a two-story Colonial Revival house with a garage on Ridge Lane, among the first houses in the new Gimghoul subdivision.

5. March 1928
   Law, policy or court · UNC, Chapel Hill Chase's memorandum warns faculty against advocacy that embarrasses the university

   Under attack from textile editor David Clark, Chase sent Howard Odum, Dudley D. Carroll and Frank Graham a discussion memo on proper activities for social scientists. Faculty whose causes involved colleagues in general embarrassment should leave, he wrote; in North Carolina such causes included certain taxes, labor organizing, racial equality and socialism.

6. about 1937
   Construction or physical change · Dudley Carroll House, 306 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill Dudley Carroll builds a red brick house on Country Club Road

   A red brick Colonial Revival house with an asymmetrical front and a fanlighted entry went up for Dudley Carroll in Rocky Ridge Farm's second building period.

7. 1937–1950
   Orange County Dudley D. Carroll chairs the Orange County Building and Loan Association

   Carroll was a director of the Orange County Building and Loan Association from 1920 to 1950 and chaired its board from 1937. He also chaired the county draft board and the county ABC board.

8. May 21, 1944
   Founding or opening · Chapel Hill Quakers organize the Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting of Friends

   The Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting was organized, the first Friends meeting in Orange County since the old Eno Meeting was laid down about a century earlier. It had no building and had bought a lot on Highway 54.

9. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

10. about 1946
    Construction or physical change · 102 Laurel Hill Road, Laurel Hill, Chapel Hill Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll builds a small brick house on Laurel Hill Road for an in-law

    The one-story side-gabled house has a traditional form with a large transom and sidelights at the door. English professor Blyden Jackson later owned it.

11. 1953
    Chapel Hill Carroll Hall is built and named for Dudley D. Carroll

    The university completed the main building of its business school in 1953 and named it Carroll Hall for the School of Commerce's first dean. It became home to the journalism school in 1999.

12. 1960
    Founding or opening · Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Friends Meeting opens its meetinghouse

    Mildred Ringwalt, who joined the Chapel Hill Friends in 1959, was influential in building the Quaker meetinghouse that opened in 1960 and later raised money to enlarge it. A Carolina Friends School tribute says she sold most of her Oriental art to finance the building and anonymously gave the money to finish it.

13. March 21, 1960
    Protest or organizing · Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill CORE Committee rejects a second truce and resumes picketing as 27 ministers back the protests

    After a week-long pause the students' 12-member executive committee, led by Harold Foster, declined the Human Relations Committee's request for a second truce and resumed afternoon picketing at Colonial Drug and Long Meadow Dairy. Twenty-seven Chapel Hill ministers issued a statement commending the peaceful, non-violent picketing.

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