Chronology

Kenneth Tanner lends West House to the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps

Tanner gave the student officer-training corps the use of West House as its headquarters for the rest of the war. The corps then had 125 students in eight companies under Lt. Col. W. A. Raborg.

Daphne Athas graduates from UNC

Athas graduated from the university in 1943 after studying writing with Betty Smith and Phillips Russell.

People: Betty Smith · Phillips Russell

Engineer Thomas C. Atwood dies, ending the firm of Atwood and Weeks

Atwood's death in 1943 closed the partnership that had carried out much of the university's building since the 1920s.

People: Thomas C. Atwood

Guion Griffis Johnson lectures in the Navy V-12 program at the University

Johnson taught as a lecturer in the Naval V-12 program at the University of North Carolina in 1943–1944.

Pre-meteorology and aviation training units arrive at UNC

In the first half of 1943 the university took in pre-meteorology and aviation training units, adding to the Navy programs already on campus.

Rachel Crook opens a fish and produce market on West Franklin Street

Crook made an old service station, lately a chicken house, into a fish and produce market.

Robert Rhinehart buys the Hill Bakery from Mrs. William Neal

Rhinehart bought the bakery that William Brumfield Neal's widow had run since his death in 1935.

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

William Meade Prince becomes head of the university's art department

William Meade Prince took charge of the University of North Carolina's art department during World War II, while also making posters and drawings for wartime causes.

The Naval ROTC moves into its new armory on South Columbia Street

The NROTC took over its new armory in January 1943, with classrooms in use by January 7 and a drill hall whose mezzanine served as a ship's bridge for drills. It is the first NROTC unit's building in North Carolina and has housed ROTC training ever since.

The NROTC holds its annual dance to open the new armory

The Naval ROTC dedicated its armory with its annual Navy dance on the drill deck, with the Navy B-1 Band, the Black enlisted musicians stationed with the Pre-Flight School, named as the band. The drill deck stayed a favorite dance floor through the war.

Navy Hall opens as the Pre-Flight School's visitors' entrance and cadet lounge

Designed by Archie Royal Davis and first drawn as a temporary office and hostess building, Navy Hall opened in March 1943 with offices for the Pre-Flight School and recreation rooms for cadets; the public was invited in on March 21.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

Governor Broughton speaks at a Pre-Flight School graduation in Kenan Stadium

Broughton and UNC president Frank Porter Graham both spoke at Navy Pre-Flight School graduation exercises in Kenan Stadium on June 2, 1943.

Part of The Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, 1942–1945 · 10 events

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: Kenan Stadium · Navy Pre-Flight School

The Navy V-12 program opens at UNC with about 1,300 men

The Navy's V-12 college program, which paid for future officers to finish degrees, began at UNC with an entering class of about 1,300, straining dormitory and dining space already taken up by the Pre-Flight School. It absorbed the Naval ROTC until 1945.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, written in Chapel Hill, is published

Smith wrote the novel in a one-room house on North Street in Chapel Hill, rising about half past five and working against the chimney wall to keep warm. Harper published it on 17 August 1943 and it sold more than 150,000 copies within two weeks.

Chapel Hill High School moves into the old Hume house on West Franklin Street

After fourteen months of classes in the Baptist church following the 1942 fire, the high school moved into the former Hume house, once the Hogan house and the Zeta Beta Tau house, owned by Caesar Cone. It held the principal's office, the library and four classrooms, with larger classes in the elementary school basement.

Subject: Chapel Hill High School

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

Pritchard's drugstore on East Franklin Street closes after its owner dies

James Manning Pritchard died and his drugstore shut. Rachel Crook sold pecans in the empty store for a short while before the North Carolina Cafeteria, formerly on Fraternity Row, bought the building and moved in.

The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation buys a lot on Cameron Avenue

The North Carolina B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation bought a lot on Cameron Avenue in Chapel Hill and later built a house there where a rabbi held services for students and townspeople.

The Scuttlebutt, a Navy canteen, opens on the UNC campus

The Scuttlebutt, a canteen built as an extension of the Book Exchange for the Navy and Marine trainees on campus, opened on the morning of January 11, 1944, after months of delay over a sugar contract. Pete Pulley managed it, and at first only trainees with Swain Hall meal tickets could buy there.

Subject: The Scuttlebutt

The Navy B-1 Band leaves Chapel Hill for service in Hawaii

The B-1 Band, the first Black Navy unit whose members held a rating above messman, cook or steward, was sent from Chapel Hill to Hawaii after nearly two years of playing across the campus and town.

Vic and Rebecca Huggins run Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street

The Hugginses bought the University Hardware Company and opened Huggins Hardware on March 22, 1944, adding kitchenware and general merchandise to the keys, paint and tools. They sold the store in 1968.

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.

People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll

Mrs. E. G. Danziger buys Henrietta Smedes's house on Hillsborough Street

The Danzigers, Austrian refugees whose candy and pastry shop was on Franklin Street, bought the 1919 house at 211 Hillsborough Street from Henrietta Smedes, who had retired from the university staff. That September they advertised their Forest Hills house for sale.

Wartime day nursery opens for the children of Black working mothers in Chapel Hill and Carrboro

A federally funded day nursery for Black children opened at the Orange County Training School, caring for thirty children aged two to six from 7:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. while their mothers worked. Parents paid for food, and by October 1944 two nursery schools were running, one in the Masonic building on the edge of Carrboro and one on Brooks Street.

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

Frederick Koch dies and is buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Koch, who taught dramatic literature and playwriting at UNC for twenty-six years and organized the Carolina Playmakers, died on August 16, 1944 and was buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery. Samuel Selden succeeded him as chair of the Department of Dramatic Art and director of the Playmakers.

People: Samuel Selden

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery · Carolina Playmakers

Nelson Callahan and Morris Timmons open the Village Printshop next to the Porthole

The Village Printshop opened at 7 Fraternity Row, next door to the Porthole, run by Nelson Callahan, who had worked at the Orange Printshop since 1928, and Morris Timmons, operator of the Porthole. It did job printing by letterpress and offset.

A row of Colonial-style stores fills the 300 and 400 blocks of West Franklin Street

As downtown pushed west after the war, an unbroken row of Williamsburg-inspired shops went up along West Franklin Street, many designed by Archie Davis.

People: Archie Royal Davis

A. H. Poe buys Ben Strowd's Pure Oil station on West Franklin Street for his DeSoto dealership

Poe bought the Pure Oil service station from Ben Strowd and moved his DeSoto car agency into it.

Andy Griffith plays his first role, in The Gondoliers at Memorial Hall

Andy Griffith, who had arrived at Carolina in July 1944, auditioned on a whim and made his stage debut in a Carolina Playmakers production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers at Memorial Hall.

Subject: Memorial Hall · Carolina Playmakers

Carl Snavely returns to coach UNC football

Snavely came back to Chapel Hill in 1945 after being assured that his program would have the full support of the administration. His 1946 to 1949 teams, built around Charlie Justice and returning servicemen, won two Southern Conference championships and played in three bowl games.

People: Charlie Justice

Classics professor J. P. Harland builds the first postwar house in Laurel Hill

His shingled Colonial Revival cottage on Laurel Hill Road has an attached garage wing turned to face the street. Earlier Laurel Hill houses kept their garages at the far end of the driveway, so the nomination reads the wing as a sign of the car's new place in the suburb.

George Livas becomes sole owner of the Carolina Coffee Shop

George Livas's partnership with James Gust ended and Livas became sole owner of the Carolina Coffee Shop, which he ran until his death in 1956.

John Scott Trotter sells the Hill House on West Franklin Street to the Baptist church

Trotter sold the Hill House, next to the Baptist church, to the congregation, which went on renting out its apartments. In 1958 the town's first public library opened in one of its rooms.

John Wesley Campbell builds a fieldstone house for a pastor on North Graham Street

John Wesley Campbell designed and built a large fieldstone house at 214 North Graham Street in Northside for a local pastor, finished in 1945 and one of the first houses on the street. It is the largest of his four stone houses in the neighborhood, with a broad arched corner porch and a stone end chimney.

Part of Historic Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro · 55 events

People: John Wesley Campbell

Laurel Hill Road is extended south beyond the 1927 plat

On the 1927 plat the road stopped at the south edge of 603 Laurel Hill Road. The extension carried it south toward the line later taken by the 15-501 Bypass and opened lots for postwar houses.

Morehead creates the foundation behind his Chapel Hill gifts

In 1945 Morehead created the Morehead Foundation to pay for the Morehead Building on the campus at Chapel Hill and to establish the scholarship that carries his name.

Subject: Morehead Planetarium

R. B. House becomes the first chancellor at Chapel Hill

North Carolina created chancellorships for its three campuses in 1945, and President Frank Porter Graham turned to House, who had been executive secretary from 1926 and dean of administration from 1934. House held the post until 1957, the longest chancellorship at Chapel Hill.

People: Frank Porter Graham

The old campus infirmary is renamed Abernethy Hall

The university renamed its 1907 infirmary building Abernethy Hall in honor of Dr. Eric A. Abernethy, the university physician from 1919 to 1933. The infirmary itself moved to a new building in 1946.

Subject: University infirmary (Abernethy Hall)

UNC begins marking Hinton James Day each February 12

The university started Hinton James Day in 1945, during the sesquicentennial of its first student's arrival. It falls on February 12 and now also honors other Carolina firsts, including Sallie Walker Stockard and Henry Owl.

UNC establishes its Communication Center

The university set up a Communication Center at Chapel Hill in 1945. Departments of radio and religion followed in 1947.

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

The Terrace View supper club opens on the Greensboro road west of Chapel Hill

The Terrace View, a dining and dancing club about five miles out the Greensboro road, was "christened" on Saturday, May 26, 1945 with a private ATO fraternity party held partly on its roof garden. By December it was open to the public every night, for couples only.

Subject: Terrace View supper club

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

Chapel Hill celebrates the end of the war with Japan on Franklin Street

As the news spread that evening, townspeople, students and Pre-Flight School cadets filled Franklin Street while the campus bells rang and the fire siren sounded. Revelers draped the trees with toilet paper and lit a bonfire in the central block, and a policeman who tried to put it out was pushed aside.

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

William T. Couch leaves the University of North Carolina Press

Couch resigned in August 1945, after thirteen years as director, to lead the University of Chicago Press.

UNC holds a farewell assembly for the Navy Pre-Flight School

As the war ended the university held a formal assembly to say goodbye to the Pre-Flight School; Chancellor R. B. House had told the Navy that any peacetime Navy program should fold into the NROTC and the regular degree.

People: R. B. House

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

Navy officers move into the NROTC Armory as the V-12 program ends

With the Pre-Flight and V-12 programs closed and remaining V-12 men absorbed into an enlarged NROTC, the Navy officers who had worked in Navy Hall moved their offices to the NROTC Armory.

An old house said to contain part of the Nunn Tavern is moved across Kenan Street for the bus station

To clear the lot for the new bus station, a large two-story house was hauled across Kenan Street to 405 West Franklin, where W. W. McCauley later lived. Bryant traces the house to a section of the Nunn Tavern of about 1776, which had already been moved to this lot in 1923 when the Baptist church was built at Franklin and Columbia.

Carolina Coach Company builds a Williamsburg-style bus station on West Franklin Street

The bus station at 311 West Franklin Street had a pedimented portico, a cupola with a weathervane and other Colonial details.

Charlie Justice chooses Carolina and begins four seasons at Chapel Hill

Justice was one of the most sought after players in the country after playing for the Bainbridge Navy team, and he chose Chapel Hill over South Carolina and Duke. He played tailback for Carl Snavely from 1946 to 1949, gaining 170 yards on 17 carries against Virginia in his freshman season.

People: Carl Snavely

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.

People: Blyden Jackson

Henry W. Lewis joins the Institute of Government faculty

After his discharge from the Army, Lewis joined the small faculty of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, where he worked mainly on election law and the property tax.

People: Henry Wilkins Lewis

Subject: Institute of Government

Johnson-Strowd-Ward opens a furniture store on West Franklin Street

The furniture firm began in one of A. H. Poe's car showrooms and in 1947 moved further west on West Franklin into a building put up for it.

Katherine Kennedy Carmichael succeeds Inez Koonce Stacy as dean of women

Carmichael, who held a Vanderbilt doctorate in British literature, became dean of women at Chapel Hill in 1946, succeeding Inez Koonce Stacy, adviser to women from 1919 and dean of women from 1942. She also taught an introductory literature course for the English department.

Kenneth M. Brinkhous chairs the UNC Department of Pathology

Brinkhous succeeded James B. Bullitt as chair of pathology at the UNC School of Medicine in 1946 and held the post until 1973, building a research program in thrombosis and hemostasis. His department invented the partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test used in clinical laboratories.

People: James Bell Bullitt

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Medical dean Isaac Hall Manning is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Isaac Hall Manning (1866-1946), the physician and medical school administrator who started Hospital Savings of North Carolina, the state's first medical insurance plan, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Morehead gives the university a million dollars for a planetarium

In 1946 Morehead presented the university with one million dollars to build a planetarium and put the proposal to the Board of Trustees. The building opened in 1949.

Subject: Morehead Planetarium

Terry Sanford revives Boys State, with William Friday among its counselors

After finishing his law courses, Sanford organized the first postwar Boys State session, staffed mostly by law students as counselors. Among them were William Friday, later president of the Consolidated University, whose first university paycheck came from the job, and William Aycock, a future chancellor.

People: William B. Aycock · William C. Friday

Terry Sanford serves as assistant director of UNC's Institute of Government

After the Second World War Sanford returned to Chapel Hill, completed a law degree in 1946 and served two years as assistant director of the Institute of Government before opening a law practice in Fayetteville.

Subject: Institute of Government

The Farmers Cooperative Dairy opens its plant in Chapel Hill

A larger cooperative of Orange, Chatham and Durham dairymen let the contract in June 1945 for a modern plant at West Franklin and Roberson streets; it was nearly finished in February 1946 and held a public open house at the end of May 1946. It handled fluid milk and made butter, ice cream and condensed milk.

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

The Pick Theatre on East Franklin Street closes

The Pick Theatre shut its doors in 1946. Its building was later remodeled for J. B. Robbins's House of Fashion, a clothing store that ran until 1969.

Victory Village is built to house married veterans at UNC

As returning veterans pushed enrollment to about 6,800, the federal government put up the prefabricated metal houses of Victory Village on 65 acres of UNC's south campus in 1946. About 350 student families lived there, and the last units were torn down in the early 1970s for the expansion of UNC Hospitals.

Part of UNC expansion and neighborhood change · 25 events

People: Terry Sanford · William C. Friday

Subject: UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital) · Victory Village and Odum Village

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

District health department X-ray unit offers free chest X-rays in Chapel Hill

The Orange-Chatham-Person Health Department's X-ray unit operated at the Chapel Hill health department from March 13 to 20, 1946, offering free chest X-rays for tuberculosis to any Orange County resident. Health officer Dr. O. David Garvin urged residents to use it.

People: O. David Garvin

Swalin's newly professional North Carolina Symphony plays Memorial Hall

Benjamin Swalin brought the North Carolina Symphony to Memorial Hall after an expansion campaign that let him hire a professional orchestra for the first time. The Daily Tar Heel's critic, a longtime skeptic, wrote that it had become the most capable musical organization then playing in the state.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Mrs. Collier Cobb sells the Cobb Terrace bungalows to private owners

Collier Cobb had kept the Aladdin kit bungalows at the north end of Henderson Street as rentals for young faculty. After his death in 1934 his widow kept them until April 1946, when she offered them for sale, first to the tenants and then to other faculty; by late June nine of the eleven had been sold.

The old Pre-Flight Armory reopens as a Scuttlebutt snack bar and bookstore

Instead of razing it for a dormitory, the university turned the Pre-Flight School's armory into a second Scuttlebutt, a soda fountain, bookstore and student hangout in the lower quadrangle.

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

Lutherans organize Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill

Holy Trinity, the first Lutheran congregation in Orange County, was organized with 34 charter members and D. P. Rudisill as pastor. Its building was consecrated on January 6, 1952.

Subject: Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Poe-Mangum Auto Service finishes a showroom and parts wing at its West Franklin Street station

Bill Poe and Marvin Mangum added a DeSoto-Plymouth showroom and a parts department to their Pure Oil service station, stretching the building to a 140-foot front. The Weekly called it one of the biggest building projects in town since the war.

Bayard Wootten shows her Mobile photographs at Person Hall

Bayard Wootten gave a talk, A Photographer Discusses Mobile in the Spring, in the small gallery at Person Hall, where a collection of the pictures she had made in Mobile that spring was on exhibit.

Subject: Person Hall

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

Forty-four graduates of the Institute's Patrol school are sworn in as state troopers

Fifty-three men finished the first eight-week course, and 44 took the oath as State Highway Patrol officers on December 7; the other nine were hired as places opened within the year. After the 1947 legislature voted to double the Patrol, Sanford and Pace ran two more sessions.

People: Terry Sanford

An Order of the Eastern Star chapter is established in Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill gained a chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, twenty-two years after Hillsborough's.

Architect James Webb moves to Chapel Hill to help start UNC's planning program

James Webb, an architect and planner trained at Berkeley and MIT who had worked for William Wurster, came to Chapel Hill in 1947 to help John Parker set up the university's program in city and regional planning. He taught there until 1975 and kept a private practice that brought San Francisco Bay area modernism to the town.

People: James M. Webb

Brinkhous begins research on dogs that carry hemophilia

Brinkhous began studying canine carriers of hemophilia in 1947. The work led to the laboratory now called the Francis Owen Blood Research Laboratory and to UNC's hemophilia research and treatment center.

Clyde Roberts wins the Bank of Chapel Hill corn growing contest

The Bank of Chapel Hill sponsored a yearly corn contest with at least 50 entrants. In 1947 Clyde Roberts won with 93.3 bushels of N. C. Hybrid 26 on one acre, against a contest average of 61.9.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

General Assembly funds the Good Health Plan's four-year medical school and teaching hospital

The General Assembly appropriated money in 1947 to expand the UNC medical school at Chapel Hill to four years, enlarge the medical sciences building, and build a 400-bed hospital, a School of Nursing and staff residence halls. The plan grew out of a study commission Governor J. Melville Broughton created in 1944.

People: J. Melville Broughton

Subject: UNC School of Medicine · UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

Local 403 petitions for student support in a campaign over university wages

After the legislature approved a 20 percent raise for state employees and the university dropped a wartime bonus, Local 403 workers circulated petitions and flyers asking students for support. Under shop steward Rebecca Clark laundry workers won wage increases, safer workspaces and better schedules.

People: Rebecca Clark

Milton Julian opens the Clothing Cupboard on West Franklin Street

Milton's Clothing Cupboard was among the businesses started on West Franklin in 1947 and 1948. It later moved to East Franklin, where it stayed until the mid-1990s.

Orange County breeders organize the Spotted Poland China Breeders Association

Hog breeders formed a county Spotted Poland China association in 1947, building on 4-H pig chains started by the Chapel Hill Rotary Club and the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. It had 65 members four years later.

Joseph Felmet is tried in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on the bus seating charge and sentenced to the roads

Felmet's trial, put off in May while Bayard Rustin and Igal Roodenko were tried, was held in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on June 24, 1947. He was sentenced to the county roads, appealed to Superior Court and posted a $50 bond.

People: Bayard Rustin · Andrew Johnson (Journey of Reconciliation) · Igal Roodenko

A bronze plaque honoring Lt. George Howard Jr. is placed at the Naval Armory

A plaque to naval officer Lt. George Howard Jr. was put up under the armory's portico, where it still hangs.

Mrs. Walter D. Toy sells her West Franklin Street home for business use

Mrs. Walter D. Toy sold the house she and her late husband had owned since the late 1890s to Margaret Davis Haywood of Durham, and the lot was to be used for business. The Weekly tied the sale to the business district's spread west along Franklin Street and noted talk of an A&P store on the site.

The Navine boarding kennels open at the Nathan Veterinary Hospital

Drs. S. A. Nathan and L. L. Vine opened 36 heated cinder-block kennels, each with its own indoor and outdoor run, at their animal hospital on the Durham road. The name joined their two surnames.

People: S. A. Nathan

Dr. S. A. Nathan opens the Curve Inn, a curb-service stand on Strowd Hill

Dr. S. A. Nathan opened the Curve Inn, a curb-service place on the Durham road halfway down Strowd Hill, with his son Marx as co-manager. It sold beer, sandwiches and fried chicken and was known for the pronto pup, a batter-dipped hot dog.

People: S. A. Nathan

Cora Bomar joins the Chapel Hill elementary school faculty

When the Chapel Hill schools opened in September 1947, Miss Cora Bomar was listed among the teachers of the elementary school under principal Mildred Mooneyhan. She had come to North Carolina that year.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

The League of Women Voters of Chapel Hill applies for recognition

Thirty-three women applied for provisional status as the League of Women Voters of Chapel Hill, raising the required finance money that fall. The league later became the League of Women Voters of the Chapel Hill Area in 1997 and of Orange, Durham and Chatham Counties in 2001.

Architect James Webb designs a modernist house on Round Hill Road for Norman Eliason

One of Webb's first Chapel Hill commissions was a modest low-gabled house for English professor Norman Eliason and his wife, with a broad carport at the front and a covered walk leading to the door.

People: James M. Webb

Carl Boettcher carves the Circus Parade for the Circus Room

University woodcarver Carl Boettcher carved the Circus Parade, a redwood frieze nearly 25 feet long based on William Meade Prince's drawings, for the Circus Room snack bar in the Monogram Club building (now Jackson Hall).

People: William Meade Prince

George Campbell and his father build a stone house on North Graham Street

On a lot owned by George Campbell, he and his father John Wesley Campbell, helped by the other Campbell sons, designed and built a small one-story fieldstone house at 203 North Graham Street, finished in 1948. It is the only one of the family's Northside stone houses whose stonework runs up into the gable.

Part of Historic Black neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro · 55 events

People: John Wesley Campbell

George Kirkland, Chapel Hill's first African American dentist, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

George Kirkland (1899-1948), the first Black dentist in Chapel Hill, was buried in the cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

J. L. Phelps wins the county corn contest with 136.4 bushels an acre

In the 1948 Bank of Chapel Hill contest eleven growers topped 100 bushels an acre. The winner, with 136.4 bushels, was J. L. Phelps, from the county's sandy tobacco section.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

James Welch Patton becomes director of the Southern Historical Collection

Patton succeeded J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton as director of the Southern Historical Collection at the UNC library and taught a North Carolina history course each year while he held the post.

People: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton

Subject: UNC Libraries

Jim Webb designs a house on Dogwood Drive for Thomas and Margaret Stanback

NCModernist lists the Thomas M. and Margaret Lide Stanback House at 531 Dogwood Drive, dated 1948, as Jim Webb's design, made in collaboration with Larry Enersen, which puts it among his first Chapel Hill commissions.

Ted Danziger names the passage to his Rathskeller Amber Alley

Danziger gave the name Amber Alley to the passageway off East Franklin Street that led down to his new Rathskeller. The Weekly said the name came from the yellow lanterns along its walls, not from the novel Forever Amber.

Subject: The Rathskeller (Amber Alley)

Ted Danziger opens the Rathskeller in the basement of his father's candy shop

Edward Danziger's son Ted opened the Rathskeller in the basement of the Danziger candy store on Franklin Street. The Hall of Fame credits it with being the first local restaurant to serve draft beer.

Subject: The Rathskeller (Amber Alley)

The A&P leaves East Franklin for a new store on the old Toy lot on West Franklin Street

The grocery chain moved off East Franklin into a building it put up on the former Walter Dallum Toy property, bought for the purpose in 1947. Rose's store then spread into the space the A&P had left.

UNC re-establishes its School of Education

The university, which had discontinued its School of Education in 1933, set it up again at Chapel Hill in 1948.

William Friday serves as assistant dean of students at UNC in Chapel Hill

After receiving his law degree from UNC in 1948, William Friday was assistant dean of students and later acting dean of students on the Chapel Hill campus until 1951, when he became assistant to Consolidated University president Gordon Gray.

People: Gordon Gray

William Sloan opens Sloan's Drugstore on East Franklin Street

Sloan opened his drugstore in the store where D. Pender's grocery had been. It lasted until the mid-1970s, when Spanky's Restaurant took the space.

Fire damages the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house, the old Graham home on Battle Lane

A fire that began in the attic of the Alpha Gamma Delta house on Battle Lane, built for Edward Kidder Graham and still owned by his son, did about $6,000 in damage and left nine students without a home. Students carried out the furniture within ten minutes while a crowd of about 650 watched.

An Orange County Superior Court jury convicts Felmet and the other three Chapel Hill bus defendants

A jury found Andrew S. Johnson, Bayard Rustin, Igal Roodenko and Joseph Felmet guilty of breaking the bus seating law, and Judge Chester Morris sentenced each to 30 days. The men, defended by C. J. Gates, Herman L. Taylor and E. R. Avent, appealed to the North Carolina Supreme Court and posted bond.

People: Bayard Rustin · Andrew Johnson (Journey of Reconciliation) · Igal Roodenko

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

The district board of health extends its ordinances to Lee County

The District Board of Health for Orange, Person, Chatham and Lee counties met at the Bank of Chapel Hill and extended the district's milk and excreta disposal ordinances to Lee County, which had joined the district in September 1946. Collier Cobb Jr. chaired the board.

People: Collier Cobb

Health officer urges typhoid shots after a case in Hillsboro

District Health Officer O. David Garvin urged Orange County residents to take the health department's typhoid vaccinations after a case of typhoid fever occurred in Hillsboro. Clinics were held at the Chapel Hill and Hillsboro health departments on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, and he advised sound privies and tested water.

Part of Public health in rural Orange County · 26 events

Fowler's Food Store opens its new building on West Franklin Street

Fowler's Food Store, successor to the old Model Market, held a grand opening in a new 80-by-200-foot building on West Franklin Street, with a parking lot reaching through to Rosemary Street. Robert L. Fowler of Chapel Hill and Marvin M. Fowler of Durham owned the store.

Piney Mountain School closes and its pupils go to Morris Grove School

The county consolidated Piney Mountain School, one of its Black schools, with Morris Grove School. A new gravel road into the area let a bus carry the children out; the school had been kept open only because no bus could reach it.

Subject: Piney Mountain School

Chapel Hill's polio quarantine on children is lifted

The month long mandatory quarantine of children sixteen and under, imposed during a polio outbreak in Chapel Hill and the vicinity, was ended, though District Health Officer O. David Garvin asked parents to keep children close to home and discouraged trips to the movies. He and the university physician notified the Veterans' Club and Graham Memorial that they could reopen.

The Monogram Club opens the former Navy Hall to all students

After the war Navy Hall went to the Monogram Club of letter athletes; when it sat underused the university paid to renovate it, and on September 18, 1948 it reopened to every student with a basement dining room and the Circus Room lounge.

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 university tears down the old Pre-Flight Armory on the day it was to meet student defenders

University officials bulldozed the former Pre-Flight Armory, then the Emerson Scuttlebutt, on the same day they were due to meet students petitioning to keep it, and did not come to the meeting. The administration said refreshments would move to the Monogram Club.

Subject: Navy Pre-Flight School

Kay Kyser leads a rained-out pep rally in Memorial Hall

When rain cancelled the outdoor rally and torchlight parade before the Texas game, Kay Kyser, his wife Georgia Carroll and coach Carl Snavely entertained more than 1,800 students in a packed Memorial Hall.

People: Carl Snavely

Subject: Memorial Hall

Carmichael serves as acting president of the consolidated university

Carmichael was acting president in 1949 and 1950, after Frank Porter Graham resigned to take a seat in the United States Senate.

People: Frank Porter Graham · William D. Carmichael Jr.

Chapel Hill builds a brick tool shed in the wall between the white and Black sections of the cemetery

In October 1949 the cemetery committee found the old tool shed past repair and asked for a brick one at a gap in the wall dividing the white and Black burial grounds. The small shed stands in the rubblestone wall that separates Section B from Section I.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Henry Brandis becomes dean of the UNC law school

Brandis, the Institute's first associate director, was promoted from professor of law to dean in 1949. Under him the law school and the Institute drew closer, with Institute staff teaching Coates's classes when he was away.

People: Henry P. Brandis Jr.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Jim and John Webb design the Spearman house, the first of their Whitehead Circle houses

The Webb firm designed a house at 418 Whitehead Circle for Walter Spearman of the UNC School of Journalism and his wife Mary, placed around a large rock that juts from the site. It was the first of five houses the brothers designed on the street.

People: Walter Spearman · James M. Webb

Jim and John Webb open their office in the old Methodist church on Rosemary Street

The brothers opened a planning and architecture practice in the left side of the 1853 Methodist church at Rosemary and Henderson streets, which had been used as a garage. In the early 1970s they bought the building and turned all of it into offices.

People: James M. Webb

Subject: Old Methodist Church (Rosemary Street)

Joel Carter directs the Chapel Hill Choral Club

Joel Carter of the university's Music Department was musical director of the Chapel Hill Choral Club, a town choir founded in 1921, for fourteen years. The club's records he kept are now at Wilson Library.

Miltos Tassos buys J. Edgar Merritt's West Franklin property and opens the Cafe Mouza

Tassos renovated the building he bought from Merritt, next to 107 West Franklin, and opened it as The Cafe Mouza.

The Carl Smith Building is completed on North Columbia Street

Carl Smith's commercial building on North Columbia Street was completed in 1949; Gooch's Cafe moved in, and the area office of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis took rooms on the second floor.

Subject: Gooch’s Café

The Town of Chapel Hill buys land for a new cemetery for its Black residents

The town bought about ten acres of the former Roberson property, just beyond the railroad on the Carrboro side of town, for a segregated cemetery for Black residents. It became the West Chapel Hill Cemetery on Village Drive.

The two Orange County dairy cooperatives merge and take the Long Meadow name

In 1949 the Latta and Farmers cooperatives merged and bought the Long Meadow Dairies plant in Durham County, taking its name. Processing stopped in Hillsborough and went on in Chapel Hill.

UNC organizes the Division of Health Affairs

In 1949 the university grouped its schools of medicine, public health and pharmacy, the new schools of nursing and dentistry, and the University Hospital into a Division of Health Affairs to coordinate teaching and research.

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

North Carolina Supreme Court upholds the convictions of Felmet and the other Chapel Hill bus riders

In State v. Johnson the court affirmed the Orange County convictions, holding that the state seating statutes applied unless the riders proved they were interstate passengers. The opinion, like the lower court record, spells his name Joseph A. Felmont.

People: Bayard Rustin · Andrew Johnson (Journey of Reconciliation) · Igal Roodenko

The county school board puts the Piney Mountain School site up for auction

The Board of Education advertised the two-acre Piney Mountain School site for public auction at the Hillsboro courthouse door, with its two one-room frame buildings to be sold apart from the land.

Subject: Piney Mountain School

A federal appeals court awards the Ackland Trust to the university at Chapel Hill

After Duke refused Ackland's bequest, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled for UNC-Chapel Hill over Rollins College, citing the university's finances, its graduate arts program and its nearness to Duke.

Subject: Ackland Art Museum

Governor Kerr Scott appoints UNC President Frank Graham to the U.S. Senate

On March 22, 1949, Governor W. Kerr Scott named Frank Porter Graham to the United States Senate, ending his presidency of the university. Controller W. D. Carmichael Jr. became acting president.

People: W. Kerr Scott

District health department takes UNC public health students for field training

Health officer Dr. O. David Garvin announced that the district health department would serve as a field training center for eight UNC public health students, four in health education and four in public health nursing, working for ten weeks across Orange, Person, Chatham and Lee counties.

People: O. David Garvin

Subject: UNC School of Public Health

Railway Express agent Lonas Williams starts Chapel Hill's first Lustron house, on Stephens Street

Lonas Williams and his wife began putting up a factory-made Lustron house of porcelain-enameled steel off Airport Road, the first of its kind in or near Chapel Hill. Mrs. Williams had read about the houses in Life, and the parts came by trailer from the Columbus, Ohio, plant through Taylor-Made Homes of Greensboro.

Subject: Williams Lustron House (109 Stephens Street)

The Chapel Hill Jaycees open the Williams Lustron house for public inspection

For a week the Junior Chamber of Commerce showed Lonas Williams's new all-steel Lustron house, furnished by local stores, at 25 cents a visitor, expecting guests from Raleigh, Durham, Pittsboro and Hillsborough. The showing cleared $240 for the club's community projects.

Subject: Williams Lustron House (109 Stephens Street)

Phillip Andrews opens a Gulf service station at 214 West Franklin Street

Phillip Andrews opened a Gulf service station in a new Colonial-style building at 214 West Franklin Street, next to Fowler's Food Store, with three opening days starting Thursday, July 7.

Political scientist Federico Gil moves into Chapel Hill's second Lustron house, on Mount Bolus

Federico G. Gil, an assistant professor of political science, moved into a factory-made, all-steel Lustron house in the new Mount Bolus colony north of town, the second in Chapel Hill. By March 1950 it was one of three houses built on the tract.

Principal C. A. McDougle opens Lincoln High School's year under its new name

The Chapel Hill Weekly reported that Lincoln High School, the town's school for Black students, would open at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, September 12, 1949, as announced by Principal C. A. McDougle. The faculty list printed with the notice includes elementary teacher Mrs. Lucille R. McDougle and high school teacher Reginald D. Smith.

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

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

William Muirhead opens the rental office of Glen Lennox

Muirhead named his apartment colony on the Raleigh highway Glen Lennox, after his wife's family, and opened its rental office in one of the apartments. It was to have 314 apartments in 48 one-story buildings; by March 1950, 66 families had moved in.

Will W. Alexander speaks to the Chapel Hill AAUW on the Julius Rosenwald Fund

Alexander, retired and living in the country near Chapel Hill, was scheduled to address the Chapel Hill branch of the American Association of University Women in the Morehead building on his years as director of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

Subject: Morehead Planetarium

A brick Colonial Revival house is built at the entrance to Laurel Hill for Dean C. O. Cathy

The story-and-a-half house on Country Club Road has end wings and a recessed columned porch. Historian H. G. Jones, later curator of the North Carolina Collection, owned it for many years.

People: H. G. Jones

Adelaide Walters is president of the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters

Adelaide Walters, who had come to the university for graduate study in 1940 and stayed on as a staff member and research assistant, served as president of the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters in 1950 and 1951. She was president of the state league from 1954 to 1956.

African American flower sellers known as the Flower Ladies set up on Franklin Street

A group of Black vendors, each working independently, began selling fresh-cut flowers on the Franklin Street sidewalk around 1950 and became one of the town's best-known enterprises.

Census counts Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro in

The 1950 census counted 34,435 people in Orange County, 9,177 in the town of Chapel Hill and 1,795 in Carrboro. Chapel Hill township as a whole had 18,222.

Charlie Justice receives UNC's Patterson Medal

UNC placed Justice in the 1950 class of Patterson Medal winners, the university's award for its leading athlete. He had been Walter Camp National Player of the Year in 1948 and Heisman Trophy runner-up in 1948 and 1949.

Colonial Drugstore moves into the West Franklin store left by Milton's Clothing Cupboard

Colonial Drugstore took over the West Franklin building that Milton Julian's clothing store had vacated.

Guion Griffis Johnson is president of the Chapel Hill Council of Churches

After returning to Chapel Hill from Atlanta in 1947, Johnson served on the boards of the Chapel Hill Community Council and Community Club, and in 1950 she was president of the Chapel Hill Council of Churches.

James Webb designs a house on Dogwood Drive for Kenneth and Frances Brinkhous

Architect James Webb designed a one-story Contemporary house with wood-shingled walls, deep eaves and a walkout basement on a steep lot at 524 Dogwood Drive for pathologist Kenneth Brinkhous and his wife Frances.

People: James M. Webb

Jim and John Webb design a house on Stagecoach Road for Earl Wynn

The brothers designed a long house set at an angle to the road at 900 Stagecoach Road for Earl Wynn, head of UNC's radio, motion picture and television department, with low overhanging gables, a central clerestory, vertical pine siding and bands of windows.

People: James M. Webb

Nellie Stroud Strayhorn, who learned of her freedom in 1865 as a girl, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Nellie Stroud Strayhorn (1850-1950) was buried in the cemetery at about one hundred; as a teenager in 1865 she was said to have been told by passing soldiers, while sitting on a cabin porch, that she was free.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Paul Smith becomes owner of the Intimate Bookshop

Paul Smith took over the Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street, formerly Abernethy's, and fitted it with display fixtures designed for his earlier shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

People: Milton Abernethy

Subject: The Intimate Bookshop

The Nash house's open sleeping porch is enclosed and a flat-roofed carport is added

The same round of changes enclosed the rear porch, covered the original fanlight over the back door and added French doors. The nomination judges these changes minor and reversible.

The Navy installs an "Attack Teacher" submarine-hunting trainer in the armory basement

A mock warship interior with sonar room, bridge and plotting room was built into the armory basement to train midshipmen in antisubmarine work; it was still in use around 1970.

The Southern Part of Heaven is published

William Meade Prince wrote and illustrated The Southern Part of Heaven, a book about growing up in Chapel Hill. Its title became a common nickname for the town.

The Webb brothers design a Whitehead Circle house for Bill and Ida Friday

In the early 1950s James and John Webb designed a group of similar Bay area style houses on Whitehead Circle for young faculty families. The one built for William and Ida Friday at 412 Whitehead Circle is a long, plain rectangle whose translucent back wall looks out into the woods.

People: William C. Friday · John B. Webb · James M. Webb

The census counts 37 masons in Chapel Hill, up from five in

Federal census returns show the number of masons living in Chapel Hill rising from seven in 1930 and five in 1940 to 37 in 1950, growth the nomination ties to the town's Black masonry trade.

UNC establishes its School of Dentistry

The university's School of Dentistry dates from 1950, with John C. Brauer as dean. Its first class was due to graduate in 1954.

UNC trustees create schools of social work and journalism

In 1950 the Board of Trustees established a School of Social Work and a School of Journalism, and renamed the School of Commerce the School of Business Administration.

William Van Sprinkle designs a shingled Colonial Ranch on Laurel Hill Road for math professor Ed Cameron

T. D. Green built the four-bay house, which has a board-and-batten front wing and an original screen porch. The nomination cites it as Sprinkle dressing the new Ranch form in colonial details.

People: William Van Sprinkle

R. D. W. Connor is buried in the Chapel Hill Cemetery

Connor died in February 1950, a year after retiring from the university, and was buried in the Chapel Hill Cemetery.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

W. N. Tyler's Esso Servicenter holds its formal opening at West Franklin and Church streets

W. N. Tyler, a former Standard Oil sales supervisor, opened a new Colonial-style Esso station on the site of the old Ralph Weaver home at West Franklin and Church streets, with free movies and prizes on opening day.

UNC's General Faculty adopts new rules creating a Faculty Council

The General Faculty approved the Faculty Legislation on University Government on May 10, 1950, to take effect in January 1951. It made an elected Faculty Council, meeting each month, the faculty's governing body.

People: John M. Booker

The pre-Civil War Hume house is moved across the Chapel Hill High School grounds

To clear ground for a new high school building, the pre-Civil War house known in turn as the Hume, Hogan and Cone house was put on rollers and moved to the west edge of the school lot, still facing Franklin Street, for use as offices and classrooms.

People: Thomas Hume

Subject: Chapel Hill High School

Henry T. Clark Jr. heads the university's Division of Health Affairs

Clark became the first permanent administrator of the Division of Health Affairs, created in 1948, with charge of the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health and pharmacy and of North Carolina Memorial Hospital. His title later became vice chancellor.

People: Edward G. McGavran

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

Health officer closes the University pool as polio cases rise in Chapel Hill

After an emergency conference with six Chapel Hill physicians, District Health Officer O. David Garvin ordered the University swimming pool and all recreational facilities closed, with six polio cases in Chapel Hill and three more in the county. He asked parents to keep children at home or on their own block but did not recommend cancelling University classes or closing nursery schools.

People: O. David Garvin

Reeves Service Station takes over the Phillip Andrews station on West Franklin Street

The Gulf station at 214 West Franklin Street reopened under new management as Reeves Service Station on October 7, 1950, replacing Phillip Andrews Service Station.

Gordon Gray is installed as president of the University of North Carolina

Gray, who had been secretary of the army, was installed as president of the three-campus University of North Carolina on October 10, 1950 at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, the last day of a program that moved from Greensboro to Chapel Hill to Raleigh. The board of trustees had approved his selection on February 6, 1950.

Alpha B. Wettach joins the university as dean of women students

Wettach also founded the Chapel Hill Experimental Kindergarten, the town's first kindergarten, and ran it in Mary Nash's old painting studio in the Nash house, where she and her husband rented.

Colonial Stores opens on West Franklin Street in a building put up by Jack Hazzard

The Colonial Stores chain opened in a new building Hazzard had built. After Colonial Stores left, the Chapel Hill Newspaper moved into the building in late 1973.

Gordon Ellis of the UNC education department builds a brick Cape Cod house on Pine Lane

Chemistry professor Henry Thomas and his wife Mary, a librarian at the UNC medical school, bought the house soon after it was finished.

James Webb designs a house on Whitehead Circle for Joseph and Pearl Morrison

Architect James Webb designed a modern house at 407 Whitehead Circle for Joseph L. Morrison, a member of the university's journalism faculty, and his wife Pearl. The Morrisons lived there for more than fifty years; the house was sold in 2010.

People: James M. Webb

John Ehle teaches in UNC's radio, television and motion pictures department

Ehle, an Asheville native who came to Chapel Hill after infantry service in World War II and graduated from UNC in 1949, taught in the university's Communications Center, later the Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures, from 1951 to 1963. He published his first books while teaching there.

Kay Kyser retires from show business and settles in Chapel Hill

Kay Kyser left radio and television and returned with his wife Georgia to Chapel Hill, where he lived on East Franklin Street for the rest of his life.

Manly Wade Wellman settles in Chapel Hill

The writer Manly Wade Wellman, who had moved to Pinebluff, North Carolina, after the Second World War, relocated to Chapel Hill, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Masons lay the cornerstone of North Carolina Memorial Hospital

University Lodge No. 408 shared in the Masonic ceremony that laid the cornerstone of the new Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill.

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

Produce seller Rachel Crook is abducted and murdered

Rachel Crook, who ran a fish and produce stand at the corner of West Franklin and Merritt Mill Road, was kidnapped and killed. Her killer was never identified, and the restaurant that later opened on her corner took the name Crook's Corner.

Subject: Crook’s Corner

The Unitarian Fellowship of Chapel Hill is organized

A lay Unitarian fellowship began holding religious meetings in Chapel Hill. It had 25 members in 1953.

People: John Gillin

The first Morehead scholars are selected

The scholarship Morehead endowed at Chapel Hill made its first selections in 1951.

The name Northside began to replace Pottersfield and Sunset

When the old Lincoln building became Northside Elementary in 1951, the school's name spread to the Black neighborhoods around it. By the mid-1950s Pottersfield, north of West Rosemary and west of Columbia Street, and its western neighbor Sunset were both being called Northside.

Subject: Northside School

UNC establishes its School of Nursing

The School of Nursing was established at Chapel Hill in 1951, with Elizabeth L. Kemble as dean. Its first class was due to graduate in 1955.

UNC admits Edward O. Diggs, its first Black medical student

UNC mailed Edward O. Diggs of Winston-Salem, a pre-medical student at A&T College in Greensboro, his letter of admission to the School of Medicine under the trustees' April 4, 1951 policy. He enrolled in the fall of 1951.

People: W. Reece Berryhill · Gordon Gray · R. B. House

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

The Grand Lodge of North Carolina meets in Chapel Hill

The state's Grand Lodge of Masons came to Chapel Hill for its annual session, with W. E. Caldwell, a member of University Lodge, as Grand Master.

The Village Theatre becomes the Varsity under new owners

Varsity Theatres, Inc., of High Point, headed by Hugh J. Smart, took over Chapel Hill's Village Theatre, renamed it the Varsity and made it a first-run house. The Village was the old Carolina Theatre, renamed in 1942 when the new Carolina opened.

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

Dean Brandis handles the applications of Pauli Murray and three other Black students to the law school

After the trustees left admissions to each professional school's dean, Brandis wrote Chancellor R. B. House about four Black applicants, Pauli Murray, J. Kenneth Lee, Harvey E. Beech and William C. Chance Jr., and on June 6 told Murray the school offered no graduate law courses. The UNC Libraries exhibit reads these letters as showing the law school resisting integration.

People: Pauli Murray · R. B. House · J. Kenneth Lee · Harvey E. Beech

Subject: UNC School of Law

Trustees make the campus heads chancellors and add a university vice-presidency

On May 22, 1951, on President Gordon Gray's recommendation, the trustees made the controller a vice-president, created a second vice-presidency, and gave the heads of the branches the title of chancellor. Logan Wilson filled the new post that fall.

People: Gordon Gray

The main building of Chapel Hill High School opens on West Franklin Street

The new main building of the high school on West Franklin Street opened in part on September 10, 1951, with five classrooms and the science department ready and the rest due about two months later. It joined the first section, later called the old wing, in use since 1947.

Subject: Chapel Hill High School

State says Chapel Hill's new tuberculosis hospital will take Black and white patients

A State Medical Care Commission spokesman said the $1,100,000 tuberculosis hospital under construction at Chapel Hill would treat Black and white patients. He noted that federal rules barred discrimination in federally aided hospitals but still allowed patients to be segregated.