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1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

2. 1903
   Chapel Hill George Howe is elected professor of Latin at the university

   The trustees elected George Howe, who held a Ph.D., professor of Latin for 1903-04 in place of Dr. H. F. Linscott, who had died in December. Howe kept the chair until 1936.

3. 1905
   Property or economic transaction · 620 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill George Howe buys an East Franklin Street lot from the university and builds a house

   In 1905 the university sold George Howe the lot at 620 East Franklin Street, and the two-story hip-roofed house on it probably went up within a year or so.

4. July 1912
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote to call William D. Moss back as pastor

   Moss had left in 1905 for a church in Washington, D.C. A congregational meeting voted without dissent to invite him back, at $500 a year and the manse with help from the Synod, and he began the long pastorate the church remembered him for.

5. 1917-1919
   Appointment, election or service · UNC campus, Chapel Hill President Edward K. Graham engages planner John Nolen to study the campus

   Urged by a faculty grounds committee of W. C. Coker, George Howe and Collier Cobb, formed in 1913, and after the trustees endorsed a full campus plan in spring 1916, Graham brought in the national planner John Nolen. Between 1917 and 1919 Nolen studied the campus and recommended building out the land south of South Building, the direction the 1920s expansion took.

6. May 28, 1917
   Founding or opening · Graded School, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents vote to form a Red Cross chapter at the Graded School

   Dr. Louis H. Webb, charged with organizing chapters in his medical district, called a Monday night meeting of Chapel Hill and Carrboro people at the Graded School building on May 28, 1917, which voted almost unanimously for a full chapter rather than an auxiliary. Seventy-one people enrolled at the chapter's first meeting, which elected George Howe chairman and Alice Noble vice-chairman.

7. October 17, 1917
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Red Cross re-elects its officers and names delegates to the state Red Cross congress

   At the chapter's second meeting, held under its constitution on October 17, 1917, members re-elected the officers except treasurer Mrs. J. H. Pratt, who resigned, and chose Dr. J. M. Bullitt in her place. George Howe, Bullitt and Mrs. K. J. Brown were named delegates to the state Red Cross congress in Raleigh on November 1 and 2.

8. September 2, 1918
   Founding or opening · Hillsborough The Orange County Red Cross forms a canteen committee to give packages to men leaving for camp

   On September 2, 1918 the chapter appointed a canteen committee of five women, each to add another, with authority to buy supplies for packages worth up to a dollar for men leaving Hillsborough for camp. In October the Chapel Hill chapter offered to share the cost, since the men came from all parts of the county.

9. November 21, 1918
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Red Cross elects A. H. Patterson chairman at its annual meeting

   At its annual meeting on Thursday, November 21, 1918, the chapter elected Dr. A. H. Patterson chairman, with Alice Noble vice-chairman, Nellie Roberson secretary and Dudley Carroll treasurer. Earlier that fall George Howe had resigned for his duties on the University's Student Army Training Corps committee, and J. M. Bell had taken his place.

10. 1919
    Appointment, election or service · UNC, Chapel Hill George Howe becomes dean of the College of Liberal Arts

    Howe, professor of Latin since 1903, took over the College of Liberal Arts in 1919 to handle academic affairs while the new dean of students handled discipline.

11. about 1928
    Construction or physical change · 2 Buttons Road, Laurel Hill, Chapel Hill Latin professor George Howe builds a Tudor Revival house on Buttons Road

    George Howe's stuccoed house at 2 Buttons Road in Laurel Hill takes its medieval character from a steep hipped roof, dormers, front wings and casement windows.

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