Herman G. Baity

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1930–1936 Herman G. Baity serves as dean of UNC's School of Engineering Baity, head of sanitary engineering since 1928, was dean of the School of Engineering from 1930 until 1936, when the sanitary engineering department moved to the School of Public Health. He chaired it there until 1955.Search the index · NCpedia: Baity, Herman Glenn
2. 1931-32 State health officer James M. Parrott plans a Chapel Hill training school that would also serve as Orange County's health department Working with university officials, the State Board of Health drew up a plan for a training school for county health workers at Chapel Hill. Because Orange County had no full-time health officer, the school's director would fill that post and the county nurse, sanitary officer and health secretary would teach, but the Rockefeller Foundation could find no money for it. People: Herman G. Baity, Frank Porter GrahamRobert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 29
3. October 1935 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. BaitySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 161
4. summer 1936 Herman G. Baity brings sanitary engineering into the Division of Public Health After the trustees moved the School of Engineering from Chapel Hill to State College in Raleigh, Baity, who had opposed the move, joined the Division of Public Health as professor of sanitary engineering. He brought the sanitary engineering program with him and kept his assistants, his laboratory and the right to grant advanced degrees. People: Frank Porter GrahamSearch the index · Robert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 39
5. Summer 1936 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. BaitySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 168
6. April 14, 1941 Chapel Hill appoints its first town planning commission After more than a year of urging by the Chapel Hill Weekly, the town named a five-member planning commission to review the design of new and remodeled buildings. It set the Colonial Revival look of downtown for the next decade. People: William D. Carmichael Jr., Herman G. Baity, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Clyde Eubanks, John M. BookerSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Chapel Hill Town Hall, National Register nomination (OR0327), p. 10
7. 1990 UNC dedicates the Herman G. Baity Environmental Laboratory The School of Public Health dedicated McGavran-Greenberg Hall and the Herman G. Baity Environmental Laboratory, with Chancellor Paul Hardin giving the dedication. People: Michel A. Ibrahim, Edward G. McGavran, Paul Hardin IIISearch the index · epidemiolog.net: History of the Gillings School of Global Public Health
8. 2005 Baity Hill graduate and family housing opens on former Baity land UNC completed the Baity Hill housing complex in 2005 on land once owned by Herman G. and Elizabeth Chesley Baity, whose family home stands on the grounds. It replaced Odum Village.Search the index · UNC A to Z: Baity Hill Graduate and Family Housing