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1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

2. 1937–1938
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Guion Griffis Johnson serves as president of the Chapel Hill PTA

   Guion Griffis Johnson was president of the Chapel Hill PTA in 1937–1938 and a district PTA officer the following year.

3. 1942–1944
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Guion Griffis Johnson leads home-front work in Chapel Hill and Orange County

   During World War II Johnson chaired the Community Service Committee of the Chapel Hill War Price and Rationing Board, was public relations officer for the Orange County Office of Civil Defense, and collected war records for Orange County.

4. 1943–1944
   Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill 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.

5. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

6. 1950
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill 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.

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