Chronology

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

The university cancels its 1917 football season as students drill

With more than half the students in a new four-company training program under Captain J. Stuart Allen, a twice-wounded Canadian veteran, the Athletic Association called off intercollegiate football for the duration. Albert Coates, its president, took part in the decision.

People: Albert Coates

The university publishes the North Carolina Club's study of county life

The extension program issued a 188-page report on the counties built on the North Carolina Club's research, in which E. C. Branson called county government the least creditable institution in the country. The study later fed the 1920s county government reforms.

People: Albert Coates · Eugene Cunningham Branson

Trustees and faculty back a $150,000 student building as Edward Kidder Graham's memorial

A joint committee of trustees and faculty, meeting in the governor's office in mid-December, agreed to raise $150,000 privately for the student activities building Graham had hoped for, to stand where Person Hall was. Albert Coates ran the drive and by the end of January 1919 announced $20,000 pledged by students, $14,500 of it in one night.

People: Louis Round Wilson · Albert Coates

Students open the Graham Memorial fund drive in Gerrard Hall

At a student rally led by Albert Coates, with William H. Bobbitt and Luther Hodges also speaking, students and faculty pledged $20,000 toward a building now budgeted at $150,000. The drive reached about $70,000 by its June deadline and $120,000 by the end of 1919.

People: Albert Coates · William H. (William Haywood) Bobbitt · Luther H. Hodges

Subject: Gerrard Hall · Graham Memorial

Gerrard Hall memorial service for Marvin H. Stacy

Students, faculty and friends met in Gerrard Hall to remember Stacy, who had died of influenza on January 21. Former president Francis P. Venable, a childhood friend, and Albert Coates for the students spoke.

People: Francis Preston Venable · Albert Coates

Subject: Gerrard Hall

A thunderstorm halts Esther Wake at Cameron Park during the homecoming

University Summer School students staged Adolph Vermont's play Esther Wake, on the early history of Hillsborough and Orange County, at Cameron Park for more than 5,000 people. A heavy thunderstorm stopped it in the second act.

People: Adolph Vermont · Albert Coates · N. W. Walker

Subject: University Summer School

Albert Coates joins the law faculty at Chapel Hill

Coates, a university graduate with a Harvard law degree, joined the law faculty in 1923. The schools he ran for police officers and sheriffs grew into the Institute of Government.

Subject: Institute of Government · UNC School of Law

Albert Coates revives the Law School Association

Coates brought back Efird's association and used it to bring state supreme court justices, judges and lawyers to Manning Hall to lecture, to run moot courts across all three classes, and later to equip a model law office.

People: Walter Clark

Subject: UNC School of Law

Chase and Coates rally students to revive the Graham Memorial drive

President Chase, Albert Coates and student body president Julian Allsbrook held a special chapel meeting in Memorial Hall to restart the stalled fund drive, with plans cut back to a smaller building whose exterior was under way. In March Coates set out a University Life Unification Plan centered on the building.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Memorial Hall · Graham Memorial

Chase keeps Albert Coates with a raise and tenure

After Coates collapsed from exhaustion in June 1926 and sent Chase a private resignation, Chase gave him a pay raise and tenure as professor of law, and Coates was teaching again that fall.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Subject: UNC School of Law

First-year law students protest Coates's failing grades

Coates failed fifteen of fifty-two students in personal property and gave seven more Es. Class leaders including Dan K. Moore pressed him to grade on a curve and talked of a boycott; he kept the grades but gave a new examination.

People: Dan K. Moore

Subject: UNC School of Law

A model law office and courtroom are fitted out in Manning Hall

Through the Law School Association, Coates had lawyers around the state pay for a model courtroom and a practice law office stocked with real forms, so students could join theory to practice. Coates had put $2,600 of his own money into the office over four years.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: UNC School of Law

Coates holds a Law School Association conference on criminal justice

About thirty lawyers, judges and state officials, including Attorney General D. G. Brummitt and Justices George W. Connor and Willis J. Brogden, met at the law school and split up sections of the American Law Institute model code to begin a new state code of criminal procedure.

People: George Whitfield Connor

Subject: UNC School of Law

Albert and Gladys Coates mail the first issue of Popular Government

The seventy-page first issue, built on Coates's paper The Convict's Question, called for a scientific overhaul of the state's criminal justice system. The Coateses paid about $1,500 to print it and addressed some two thousand copies by hand at the Chapel Hill post office before year's end.

People: Gladys Hall Coates

The legislature creates a commission on improving the state's laws, with Coates as secretary

The 1931 General Assembly set up a commission of justices, judges, lawyers and law school representatives to recommend changes to the laws, with Albert Coates as executive secretary and a report due in 1933.

People: O. Max Gardner

Coates opens his first statewide school for law officers in Manning Hall

About fifty police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, clerks and judges, growing to seventy-five or more, met for three days under the police chiefs' association, the first meeting of city, county, state and federal officers under one roof. Governor Gardner called it the most promising movement the university had begun.

People: Henry Horace Williams · O. Max Gardner

Coates and his law students open local police schools around the state

Less than a month after the Chapel Hill meeting, the first local police school opened in a Raleigh courtroom with Coates's students in tow, followed by schools in High Point, Greensboro, Wilmington, Asheville and Winston-Salem.

Officials at the Carolina Inn back Coates's plan for schools of public officers

Forty-five judges, lawyers and lawmen invited by Judge W. A. Devin heard Coates propose an association of government officers served by a staff that would write guidebooks and train officials. They told him to go ahead, and Coates later called this the first meeting of the Institute of Government.

Subject: The Carolina Inn · Institute of Government

About two hundred officials organize and name the Institute of Government

Mayors, legislators, judges and county commissioners met at the new Graham Memorial, endorsed Coates's plan for an association of government officials and formally adopted the name Institute of Government. Junius G. Adams chaired, with Coates as secretary, and a larger meeting was set for September.

People: Albert Coates · Gladys Hall Coates

Subject: Institute of Government · Graham Memorial

UNC names W. C. Jackson dean of a new School of Public Administration

Graham and Odum announced Jackson, history chair at the Woman's College in Greensboro, as dean of the school Odum had planned for three years with a small state allocation. Graham urged Coates to fold the Institute into it and made him one of its trustees, but Coates kept apart; short of state money, the school was dissolved after Jackson returned to Greensboro as chancellor.

People: Howard W. Odum · Frank Porter Graham · Albert Coates

Albert Coates convenes the Institute of Government's first statewide school for public officials

About six hundred officials and citizens from nearly every county came to Chapel Hill for a two-day meeting Coates had promoted all summer. Frank Graham opened the Friday evening session in Gerrard Hall and Harvard law dean Roscoe Pound gave the closing address on Saturday, when the organizing committee approved hiring Coates as director with a staff.

People: Frank Porter Graham · O. Max Gardner

Subject: Institute of Government · Gerrard Hall

The Institute of Government stages a statewide radio swearing-in of new county officers

Working with Raleigh station WPTF, Coates had a five-station network carry the oath-taking of incoming sheriffs, commissioners and other county officers, with speeches by governor-elect J. C. B. Ehringhaus and his Republican opponent Clifford Frazier. People gathered in courthouses across the state to watch and listen, and Coates billed the night as the Institute's formal launch.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Ben Cone pledges $5,000 a year for three years to the Institute of Government

After a $1,500 gift at the end of 1932, the Greensboro textile executive pledged $5,000 a year for three years and his brother Ceasar Cone II promised $5,000 more. The Cone money paid for the first staff, and by late 1933 it was more than three-quarters of all the Institute had deposited at the Bank of Chapel Hill.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Henry P. Brandis Jr. becomes the Institute of Government's first associate director

Paid from the Cone pledges at $50 a week, Brandis, a Salisbury native with a Columbia law degree, left a New York firm and went straight to Raleigh to follow the General Assembly and digest its new laws. He was later dean of the UNC law school.

People: Albert Coates · Henry P. Brandis Jr.

Subject: Institute of Government

Coates and law dean Van Hecke withdraw their resignations after meeting with President Graham

That spring law dean Maurice T. Van Hecke had recommended that Coates stop teaching and work only for the Institute, and first Coates and then Van Hecke offered to resign. At a June 6 meeting in Graham's South Building office both stayed on: Coates got a fall leave and a second chance in the law school, and he agreed to stop presenting the law school or the university as the Institute's sponsor.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: South Building · UNC School of Law

More than a thousand people attend the Institute of Government's second statewide conference

Officials and citizens met in Chapel Hill to hear the state's congressional delegation, led by Senator Josiah Bailey, explain the first New Deal recovery laws, and President Roosevelt sent a letter urging other states to copy the Institute. The organizing committee then gave Coates new work, among it a report on proposed constitutional amendments and a guidebook for election officials.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Coates moderates a debate on proposed constitutional amendments and keeps the Institute neutral

Pressed by the amendments' sponsors and by Attorney General Dennis Brummitt, Coates held that the Institute would never lobby for or against any measure. In mid-April he moderated a debate in the state House chamber before about 125 officials, with Chief Justice Walter Stacy and revenue commissioner Allen J. Maxwell for the amendments and Brummitt against.

Popular Government becomes a monthly magazine

With new gifts from Winston-Salem backers and Ceasar Cone and some subscription income, Coates moved the Institute's journal from quarterly to monthly, with advertising to help pay for it. Each monthly issue sold for ten cents and carried a courthouse or other government building on its cover.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Graham refuses to move Albert Coates out of the law school

In May 1935 Dean Van Hecke reported that Coates's teaching had failed again and, with the whole law faculty behind him, asked that Coates be freed from law school duties to run the Institute. Coates threatened to demand an academic trial; Graham declined the transfer and again refused Van Hecke's offer to resign, and Coates rejoined the law faculty in February 1936 and taught there for thirty years.

People: Frank Porter Graham · R. B. House

Subject: UNC School of Law

Institute of Government staff begin daily bulletins on the General Assembly

From rented offices in the Raleigh Building, Brandis, Dillard Gardner and T. N. Grice followed every bill of the 1935 session from the gallery and put a bulletin of the day's action on each member's desk by the next morning. A weekly digest of statewide bills went to every newspaper in the state, so local officials learned of bills before they became law.

People: Albert Coates · Henry P. Brandis Jr.

Subject: Institute of Government

Popular Government launches a campaign for an Institute of Government building

The April 1935 issue spread across its center pages a drawing of a three-story 'governmental laboratory building' by the university's architects, Atwood and Weeks, and opened a public drive for funds. Coates told Roscoe Pound that building-supply dealers would donate the materials.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

The Institute prints 250,000 copies of a highway safety issue of Popular Government

The September 1935 issue was given over to traffic safety, using fatality figures gathered by law student Harry McGalliard at a time when North Carolina had the most deaths per mile driven. Standard Oil helped pay for a pocket-size 32-page edition sent to high schools, police departments and civic groups.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Trustees offer land and the PWA approves a grant for an Institute of Government building

University trustees agreed to give the Institute a site valued at $15,000 on the western edge of the campus south of the Carolina Inn, the building to go to the university if the Institute ended. The Public Works Administration approved $55,498 for labor, one of 52 grants from 300 applications in the state, toward a building then estimated at $123,000.

People: Albert Coates · Frank Porter Graham · Herman G. Baity

Subject: Institute of Government

Dillard Gardner sells Institute of Government memberships to cities and counties

Taking a city manager's suggestion, Coates offered local governments yearly 'unit memberships' priced by population, from $413 for Charlotte to $7.50 for the smallest towns, covering guidebooks, the magazine, legislative bulletins and staff help. Gardner set out in the winter of 1936 and enrolled more than a hundred cities, towns and counties; memberships brought in over $10,000 in 1937.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

The PWA withdraws its grant for the Institute of Government building

Coates won two thirty-day extensions, the first from President Roosevelt at Senator Josiah Bailey's request, and in February 1936 was allowed to let a contract on his word that the money was in hand. The promised materials and cash never fully came through, and in the summer of 1936 PWA administrator H. G. Baity rescinded the grant; a brief revival by Interior Secretary Harold Ickes in 1937 also failed.

People: Albert Coates · Herman G. Baity

Subject: Institute of Government

The Institute of Government opens its first ten-day school for police officers

Sixty-one lawmen, about a quarter of them police chiefs, attended, taught in part by instructors lent by the FBI's new National Police Academy. J. Edgar Hoover then gave agent Edward Scheidt, a former Coates student, a year's paid leave to write Institute guidebooks on arrest, search and seizure, and crime detection.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

With its money gone, the Institute's first staff leave for state jobs

By 1938 the Cone gifts were spent and the staff had gone weeks without pay. Brandis became research director of the State Tax Commission, Dillard Gardner joined the state supreme court staff and Grice the state auditor's office, while two young assistants stayed on at reduced pay; the last regular monthly Popular Government went out in January 1938.

People: Albert Coates · Henry P. Brandis Jr.

Subject: Institute of Government

Coates clears the old Pickard Hotel and Ledbetter lots on Franklin Street for the Institute building

With the campus site no longer available, Coates arranged to buy two lots on the north side of Franklin Street facing Graham Memorial, the university-controlled Ledbetter property and the privately owned old Pickard Hotel property, for $8,700. In late September he borrowed to clear them; the old buildings came down, and the excavation filled with water through a wet winter until town officials called it a nuisance.

Subject: Pickard Hotel

Construction begins on the Institute of Government building on Franklin Street

A $10,000 gift from Will Reynolds, given after Congressman William Umstead won an IRS ruling that the Institute was a charity, paid for the land. Gifts from Gordon and Bowman Gray covered half of the $50,000 cost and Julian Price's Jefferson Standard Life lent the rest on Coates's signature, against more than half his salary, for a scaled-down Federal-style building of three floors over a raised basement.

People: Albert Coates · Gordon Gray · Bowman Gray · William B. Umstead

Subject: Institute of Government

Law students Terry Sanford and William Cochrane join the Institute's legislative team

Elmer Oettinger led the Institute's daily coverage of the 1939 General Assembly, mailing bulletins to a list that had grown to 7,000 names. Late in the session Cochrane recruited first-year law student Sanford, later governor, who came back to the Institute as an assistant director after the war.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

North Carolina's first Boys State meets on the UNC campus

The Institute ran the week-long civics program for the state American Legion, modeled on one begun in Illinois in 1935. About 135 high school boys spent up to three hours a day in class on government besides sports, heard Governor Hoey and other officials, and elected Douglass Hunt their governor.

People: Albert Coates · Douglass Hunt · Clyde Roark Hoey

House Speaker William Bankhead dedicates the Institute of Government building

On the eve of Thanksgiving a standing-room crowd in Hill Music Hall heard Bankhead, Governor Clyde Hoey and President Frank Graham praise Coates, with eight of the state's eleven congressmen and former governor O. Max Gardner on hand. A reception followed in Graham Memorial, and guests stayed for the Virginia football game the next day.

People: Clyde Roark Hoey · Frank Porter Graham · Albert Coates · Gladys Hall Coates · O. Max Gardner

Subject: Institute of Government · Hill Hall

Albert Coates completes the Institute of Government's Franklin Street building

Albert Coates built the Institute's Franklin Street headquarters with private gifts and a Jefferson Standard Life loan, and it opened in November 1939. The University took title only on June 30, 1945, after the legislature paid off the mortgage. The building later carried the Coates name.

Subject: Institute of Government

Coates trains as a civil defense instructor and Popular Government issues a defense number

Called to a War Department school in Texas in the summer of 1942, Coates returned to run civil defense training through the Institute, and that fall Popular Government published a 'Defense Issue' on espionage, water system protection, gas attacks and air raid warnings. In 1945 an Army Service Forces colonel credited the Institute with the plan for joining local and state forces with federal ones to defend the state.

Subject: Institute of Government

The General Assembly passes a resolution commending the Institute of Government

Peyton Abbott, a Winston-Salem lawyer who moved into the Institute building on December 1, 1942, led its coverage of the 1943 session, winning a seat at the press table and a copy of every bill. Before adjourning, the legislature passed a joint resolution praising the Institute's service to it.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Reader's Digest profiles Albert Coates and the Institute of Government

Roving editor J. P. McEvoy visited Chapel Hill that summer, and his article, titled 'Don't Shoot Your Sheriff: Teach Him,' ran in the October issue. It brought Coates speaking invitations from several states and an offer from founder DeWitt Wallace to pay him to tour the country, which Coates declined.

Subject: Institute of Government

Coates publishes his first history of the Institute of Government, paid for by DeWitt Wallace

In place of a speaking tour, Coates wrote a 76-page account of how the Institute grew out of his law classroom, issued under the Popular Government name in the National University Extension Association's studies series. Wallace paid for 30,000 copies for national distribution, and on the advice of Louis R. Wilson and W. T. Couch, Coates took out the profanity before it went to press.

People: William T. Couch · Louis Round Wilson

Subject: Institute of Government

Governor Broughton asks the Institute of Government to help towns plan for after the war

As Allied armies advanced across Europe, Broughton called on the short-staffed Institute to help plan for life in North Carolina's towns and cities once the war ended. State payments for this work and for civil defense training steadied the Institute's budget.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

The Saturday Evening Post profiles Coates as 'The Ugly Duckling at Chapel Hill'

Warner Olivier's article cast Coates as the law school's misfit who had overcome objections to build an Institute admired around the country. It opened with a photograph of Albert and Gladys Coates in front of the Institute building.

People: Gladys Hall Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Coates deeds the Institute of Government building to the university

After the legislature appropriated $44,000 to pay off the rest of the mortgage, Coates transferred title to the Institute property to the University of North Carolina. This completed the 1941 merger plan, under which the university would take the building once it was clear of debt.

Subject: Institute of Government

The Institute builds a Highway Patrol training camp on Raleigh Road

Coates won approval to put a training camp on the eastern edge of the campus, on the south side of Raleigh Road at Country Club Road. State Highway Department crews brought seven wooden barracks built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from Camp Mackall near Fort Bragg and set them in a U around a drill yard, with water and sewer lines run from the university gym.

People: Albert Coates · Terry Sanford

Popular Government resumes regular publication under William Cochrane

After a three-year gap and a single issue in 1945, the Institute's magazine came out nine times a year from January 1946, edited by Cochrane. He also managed the Institute's daily business until he left in 1955 for Senator Kerr Scott's staff.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

The Institute of Government's first State Highway Patrol school opens in Chapel Hill

With money from the legislature to bring the Patrol back to its prewar strength, Governor Gregg Cherry's administration turned to the Institute, which offered an eight-week course for about a hundred recruits chosen from 1,300 applicants. Classes began on October 13, with instructors from the FBI, the State Bureau of Investigation, Northwestern University and New York University.

People: Albert Coates · Terry Sanford

Subject: Institute of Government

Political scientist Donald Hayman joins the Institute of Government staff

Recommended by political science chair Charles B. Robson when Coates wanted help screening Patrol recruits, Hayman was hired on the spot as an assistant director, the first non-lawyer on the staff since accountant T. N. Grice. He took the place of Terry Sanford, who had left to practice law in Fayetteville.

People: Albert Coates · Terry Sanford

Subject: Institute of Government

George Esser and Alexander McMahon join the Institute of Government

Recruited by Coates at Harvard Law School that spring, Esser and McMahon started the same day, joining new Carolina law graduates Donald McCoy and Dickson Phillips; Philip Green came a few months later. It was the largest group of assistant directors Coates had yet employed, and he put them to work on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg study.

People: James Dickson Phillips · Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

The Institute of Government delivers its Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidation study

Asked in 1946 by Charlotte and Mecklenburg County leaders after a Charlotte News series, the Institute spent nearly three years inventorying every city and county department. Coates gave the first public report on November 1, 1949, staff members presented eight more over four months, and the study took no side on merger; the city and county schools were combined about a decade later.

People: Albert Coates · Henry W. Lewis · George H. Esser Jr.

Subject: Institute of Government

Albert and Gladys Coates move into their own house on Hooper Lane

In 1947 the couple bought a lot on Hooper Lane in what had been the back garden of Edward Kidder Graham's house. Coates rejected a contemporary design by architects Jim and John Webb, the house went up as a two-story Georgian, and they moved in about the time the Gardner Award money arrived.

People: Gladys Hall Coates · John B. Webb

J. Spencer Love gives the Institute of Government $50,000 to spend as Coates sees fit

Textile executive J. Spencer Love, whose $15,000 in 1942 had carried the Institute until the state budget took over its costs, sent Albert Coates another $50,000 with no conditions on its use.

Subject: Institute of Government

University trustees give Albert Coates the O. Max Gardner Award

By unanimous vote the trustees named Coates the faculty member of the Consolidated University who had done most that year for the welfare of humanity, under the award created by the late governor's will. Coates accepted it for the Institute, and it carried $10,000.

People: O. Max Gardner · W. Kerr Scott

The Knapp Foundation pledges $500,000 toward a new building for the Institute of Government

University President Gordon Gray secured a commitment from the foundation of the late Joseph Palmer Knapp for a $500,000 grant, to be matched by the same sum from the state, to build the Institute a new home. Coates had wanted the money as an endowment beside a state-built building, but Gray followed the matching plan that Margaret Knapp favored.

People: Gordon Gray · Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Albert Coates and James C. N. Paul prepare the Institute's report on the Brown decision for Governor Umstead

At Governor William B. Umstead's request, Coates wrote a history of the state's separate schools and Paul, who had clerked for Chief Justice Fred Vinson, examined the ruling and the plans for getting around it, concluding that segregated schools could not be kept. When Umstead named Thomas J. Pearsall's advisory committee on August 11, 1954, the report was the first paper its members received, and Coates then ran a shortened version in Popular Government.

People: Thomas J. (Thomas Jenkins) Pearsall · William B. Umstead

Subject: Institute of Government

The law faculty and the Institute staff vote against merging the Institute into the law school

When Albert Coates pressed again to fold the Institute of Government into the UNC law school, both the law faculty and the Institute's own staff voted the idea down. Assistant director John Sanders warned that the Institute's service work would be subordinated to the law school and its identity lost.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government · UNC School of Law

A state audit reports irregularities in the Institute of Government's accounts

State Auditor Henry Bridges reported a gap of $5,064.32 in the Institute's books, caused by careless record keeping and slow deposit of room fees and book sales, not by missing money. Coates took the blame and paid $5,100 at once; he was repaid once he documented the spending, but staff who had not been warned in advance were angry.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Governor Luther Hodges accepts the Knapp Building for the state at its dedication

A four-day dedication of the Institute of Government's headquarters, for which officials were invited by congressional district and the Kughler murals were unveiled, closed with Governor Hodges accepting the million-dollar building on behalf of the state. Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. stayed for the whole program.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Albert Coates gives Chancellor Aycock a 158-page account of the Institute's past and needs

Using staff tallies of thirty years of Institute publications, training and finances, Coates wrote Chancellor William B. Aycock a long report on how the Institute began and grew and what it would need. It also argued for waiving the retirement rule in his case, and it became the core of his later published history of the Institute.

People: William B. Aycock

Subject: Institute of Government

Law dean Henry Brandis Jr. turns down Albert Coates's last appeal for a merger

Coates sent Dean Henry Brandis Jr. a pleading letter with thirty-nine pages of enclosures urging that the Institute become part of the law school. Brandis refused to reopen the question and said that once Coates returned to full-time teaching, Institute staff would no longer teach his courses, since their part had weakened the school's instruction.

People: Henry P. Brandis Jr.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Chancellor Aycock chooses John Sanders to succeed Albert Coates as director of the Institute

After Coates would not name a successor through months of talks, Chancellor William B. Aycock picked assistant director John Sanders, then thirty-five, who accepted in a short meeting with Aycock and Dean of Faculty James Godfrey. Sanders, on the staff since October 1956, took over when Coates left the post on August 31, 1962.

People: Albert Coates

Albert Coates retires as director of the Institute of Government

Coates retired as director of the Institute he founded on August 31, 1962, but stayed on the law faculty, teaching full time until about 1967 and a reduced load until a stroke in early 1968.

Subject: Institute of Government

Albert Coates starts the Institute of Civic Education in the University's Extension Division

With no place offered by the Institute of Government or the law school, Coates set up an Institute of Civic Education under Extension Division director Charles Milner, paid for by the Richardson Foundation and a $50,000 yearly state appropriation approved by Governor Terry Sanford. In the summer of 1965 it brought high school civics and government teachers to Chapel Hill for short courses in state history and government.

People: Terry Sanford

The UNC law school dedicates an issue of the North Carolina Law Review to Albert Coates

When Coates gave up full-time teaching in 1967, the law school marked it by dedicating the November 1967 North Carolina Law Review to him. That year the North Carolina Bar Association also gave him its John J. Parker award, and Governor Dan K. Moore presented him the North Carolina Award.

People: Dan K. Moore

Subject: UNC School of Law

Albert Coates suffers a stroke and is taken to Memorial Hospital

In late January 1968, while still teaching a criminal law class on a reduced schedule, Coates lost the use of his right arm and leg at home and was taken to Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, where he spent about a week in intensive care. He was home on Hooper Lane a month later, and his doctor told him not to return to the classroom.

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Albert Coates speaks at the law school graduation after teaching his last class

Recovering from his stroke, Coates gave the law school's commencement address and told the graduates that they and he were leaving together, since he had taught his final class. It ended a law teaching career at Chapel Hill that began in 1923.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Albert Coates publishes What the University of North Carolina Meant to Me

Coates's collection of autobiographical pieces followed him from a Smithfield boyhood through his student years and law teaching to the building of the Institute, with long sections on his work with the FBI and with the University's Extension Division.

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.

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.

The Institute's former Franklin Street building is dedicated in the names of Albert and Gladys Coates

The building the Coateses had given years and money to put up for the Institute, used after 1956 as the Consolidated University's headquarters and later by other programs, was dedicated in their name. Coates had earlier asked the School of Social Work not to name one of its new buildings for him.

People: Gladys Hall Coates

Subject: Institute of Government

Albert Coates publishes The Story of the Institute of Government

Coates's history of the Institute, a book he had worked at for half a century, came out fifty years after the meeting that started it. Director Henry Lewis had read the manuscript in the late 1970s and sent page after page of corrections, some of which Coates took.

Subject: Institute of Government

The UNC-Chapel Hill trustees give Albert Coates the William R. Davie Award

The trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gave Coates their William R. Davie Award in 1984.

Albert and Gladys Coates publish The Story of Student Government in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The book rested on research Gladys Coates had begun in the 1930s in the University archives, literary society records and student publications, with chapters by Albert on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and chapters by student leaders on recent decades.

People: Gladys Hall Coates

Albert Coates publishes his last book, on Edward Kidder Graham, Harry Chase and Frank Porter Graham

Coates's final book, published in 1988, paid tribute to the three University presidents he credited with shaping his life.

Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Albert Coates (1896-1989), who founded the Institute of Government at the university, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery